Description |
xx, 284 pages ; 28 cm |
Series |
Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series |
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Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series.
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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 |
Notes |
Rev. ed. of: Teaching college freshmen. 1991 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index |
Subject |
College teaching -- United States.
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College freshmen -- United States.
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Author |
Peters, Calvin B.
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Strommer, Diane Weltner, 1935-
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Erickson, Bette LaSere, 1945-
Teaching College Freshmen
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LC no. |
2006005273 |
ISBN |
0787964395 cloth |
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