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Teaching first-year college students / Bette LaSere Erickson, Calvin B. Peters, Diane Weltner Strommer.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Jossey-Bass higher and adult education seriesPublication details: San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2006.Edition: Rev. and expanded edDescription: xx, 284 p. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 0787964395 (cloth)
  • 9780787964399
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.12 ERI
Contents:
First-year students in perspective -- Intellectual development in college -- Learning styles -- Knowing, understanding, thinking, and learning how to learn : the goals of first-year instruction -- Preparing a syllabus and meeting the first class -- Presenting and explaining -- Creating involvement in the classroom -- Encouraging active reading -- Supporting active study practices -- Trying transformed teaching -- Evaluating student learning -- Grading -- Creating inclusion in first-year classroom and curricula -- Teaching large classes -- Sustaining engagement outside class : office hours, advising, and first-year seminars -- Strengthening commitment to first-year instruction.
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Rev. ed. of: Teaching college freshmen. 1991.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-274) and index.

First-year students in perspective -- Intellectual development in college -- Learning styles -- Knowing, understanding, thinking, and learning how to learn : the goals of first-year instruction -- Preparing a syllabus and meeting the first class -- Presenting and explaining -- Creating involvement in the classroom -- Encouraging active reading -- Supporting active study practices -- Trying transformed teaching -- Evaluating student learning -- Grading -- Creating inclusion in first-year classroom and curricula -- Teaching large classes -- Sustaining engagement outside class : office hours, advising, and first-year seminars -- Strengthening commitment to first-year instruction.