First-Year Students...
Ten
Tips for Success in Teaching First-Year-College Students
- Understand
your students
- Clarify
your objectives
- Attend
to the first class
- Establish
a climate for learning
- Abandon
the non-stop lecture
- Involve
students with varied activities
- Provide
opportunities for reflection
- Take
risks
- Include
upper-class students
- Develop
a support group
Strommer, D.W. (1999) Teaching first-year college students:
ten tips for success. In M.S. Hunter & T.L. Skipper (Eds) Soild
Foundations, Building success for first-year seminars through training
and development (Monograph No.29)(pp.39-52). Columbia, SC: University
of South Carolina, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience
and Students in Transition.
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