Record details

• ISBN: 0787964395 (cloth)
• ISBN: 9780787964399
• Physical Description: xx, 284 p. ; 28 cm.
• Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
• Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Rev. ed. of: Teaching college freshmen. 1991.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

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

Formatted Contents Note:

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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Subject:

College teaching > United States.
College freshmen > United States.

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• Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series