Teaching First-Year College Students

Teaching First-Year College Students is a thoroughly expanded and updated edition of Teaching College Freshmen, which has become a classic in the field since it was published in 1991. The book offers concrete suggestions about specific strategies and approaches for faculty who teach first-year courses. The new edition is based on the most current research on teaching and learning and incorporates information about the demographic changes that have occurred in student populations since the first edition was published. The updated strategies are designed to help first-year students adjust effectively to both the academic and nonacademic pressures of college. The authors also help faculty understand first-year students and show how their experiences in high school have prepared¾or not prepared¾them for the world of higher education.

Bette LaSere Erickson is director of the Instructional Development Program at the University of Rhode Island. She was a founding member and former executive director of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network.

Calvin B. Peters is professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Rhode Island. He was co-principal investigator of the university's Multicultural Center Faculty Fellows Program.

Diane Weltner Strommer is an accreditation adviser to international institutions of higher education in Europe and the Middle East. She is dean emerita of University College and Special Academic Programs at the University of Rhode Island.

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xvii

About the Authors

xix

PART ONE Understanding First-Year Students

1

(46)

First-Year Students in Perspective

3

(18)

Intellectual Development in College

21

(14)

Learning Styles

35

(12)

PART TWO Effective Instruction for First-Year Students

47

(150)

Knowing, Understanding, Thinking, and Learning How to Learn: The Goals of First-Year Instruction

49

(18)

Preparing a Syllabus and Meeting the First Class

67

(20)

Presenting and Explaining

87

(16)

Creating Involvement in the Classroom

103

(16)

Encouraging Active Reading

119

(12)

Supporting Active Study Practices

131

(16)

Trying Transformed Teaching

147

(14)

Evaluating Student Learning

161

(22)

Grading

183

(14)

PART THREE Opportunities and Challenges in First-Year Instruction

197

(68)

Creating Inclusion in First-Year Classrooms and Curricula

199

(20)

Teaching Large Classes

219

(20)

Sustaining Engagement Outside Class: Office Hours, Advising, and First-Year Seminars

239

(16)

Strengthening Commitment to First-Year Instruction

255

(10)

References

265

(10)

Index

275

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Teaching First-Year College Students

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