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

Rev. ed. of: Teaching College Freshmen. 1991.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. First-year students in perspective -- Ch. 2. Intellectual development in college -- Ch. 3. Learning styles -- Ch. 4. Knowing, understanding, thinking, and learning how to learn : the goals of first-year instruction -- Ch. 5. Preparing a syllabus and meeting the first class -- Ch. 6. Presenting and explaining -- Ch. 7. Creating involvement in the classroom -- Ch. 8. Encouraging active reading -- Ch. 9. Supporting active study practices -- Ch. 10. Trying transformed teaching -- Ch. 11. Evaluating student learning -- Ch. 12. Grading -- Ch. 13. Creating inclusion in first-year classrooms and curricula -- Ch. 14. Teaching large classes -- Ch. 15. Sustaining engagement outside class : office hours, advising, and first-year seminars -- Ch. 16. Strengthening commitment to first-year instruction.

"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 prepared - or not prepared - them for the world of higher education."--BOOK JACKET.