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Author Erickson, Bette LaSere, 1945-

Title Teaching first-year college students / Bette LaSere Erickson, Calvin B. Peters, Diane Weltner Strommer
Edition Revised and expanded edition
Published San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2006]
©2006

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Description xx, 284 pages ; 28 cm
Series Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series
Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series.
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.
College freshmen -- United States.
Author Peters, Calvin B.
Strommer, Diane Weltner, 1935-
Erickson, Bette LaSere, 1945- Teaching College Freshmen
LC no. 2006005273
ISBN 0787964395 cloth