Book Review: Teaching First-Year College Students by Bette LaSere Erickson, Calvin B. Peters & Diane Weltner Strommer (Jossey-Bass, 2006)
Excerpt: This volume is an excellent revision of a fine, though outdated, handbook for college teachers, Erickson and Strommer's Teaching College Freshmen (Jossey-Bass, 1991). Much has changed since 1991, as is evident even in the gender-neutral title of the new edition. The authors have respon...
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| Language: | English |
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Georgia Southern University
2009-01-01
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| Series: | International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning |
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| Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol3/iss1/36 |
| Summary: | Excerpt: This volume is an excellent revision of a fine, though outdated, handbook for college teachers, Erickson and Strommer's Teaching College Freshmen (Jossey-Bass, 1991). Much has changed since 1991, as is evident even in the gender-neutral title of the new edition. The authors have responded to those changes with new chapters, several expanded discussions, and many new resources. The earlier edition had a three-part format: understanding first-year students, teaching them effectively, and facing the opportunities... |
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| ISSN: | 1931-4744 |