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Summary:

"33 Simple Strategies is designed to offer university faculty simple and straightforward ways they can interact with students both during class time and during office hours that will help mediate some of first-year students' most stressful challenges. The suggested strategies require just 5-15 minutes a week. Every suggestion is rooted in first-year students' own voices, gathered during research at one four-year private and one four-year public institution. The strategies pay particular attention to the additional needs and challenges that low-income, ethno-racial minority, and first-generation college students face in the transition to university academics and college life more generally. Including strategies like: introduce yourself as a person to your students rather than list your professional qualifications; have students fill out a time log over the course of a week so that you can talk about time management; help students find study partners among their classmates. All the suggestions came directly from students themselves in one-on-one interviews, where the students described their experiences with professors in and out of the classroom, and articulated things that professors do that they found helpful to their learning, their confidence, and their success, and vice versa as well. For any professor just starting out, or for someone who wants to incorporate techniques to reach first year or first generation students, these short, simple suggestions will prove easy to implement, and will increase student success in any class"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Introducing yourself (not your professional self)
• Modeling a study guide
• Finding study partners
• Articulating your pedagogic rationales
• Improving time management
• Sharing stress-management ideas
• Attending office hours
• Collecting Midsemester feedback
• Interviewing fellow students
• Finding your discipline
• Discovering life purpose and passion
• Sharing stories of college woe
• Laughing and commiserating together
• Learning from failures
• Saying farewell
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Index.

Author/Creator:

Nunn, Lisa M., 1975- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

33 simple strategies for faculty: a week-by-week resource for teaching first-year and first-generation students [by Nunn, L.M.]

Subjects:

College freshmen — United States

First-generation college students — United States

College student orientation — United States

Teacher-student relationships — United States

College teaching — United States

College freshmen

First-generation college students

College student orientation

Teacher-student relationships

College teaching

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-139) and index.

Physical Description:

vii, 144 pages ; 22 cm

Call Numbers:

LB2343.32 .N86 2019

ISBNs:

9780813599489 (hardback, alk. paper)
0813599482 (hardback, alk. paper)
9780813599472 (paperback, alk. paper)
0813599474 (paperback, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2018004657

OCLC Numbers:

1032290939