Book Review: Teaching First-Year College Students by Bette LaSere Erickson, Calvin B. Peters & Diane Weltner Strommer (Jossey-Bass, 2006)

• Main Author: Susan Yager
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Georgia Southern University 2009-01-01
• Series: International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• Subjects: Bette LaSere Erickson; Calvin B. Peters; Diane Weltner Strommer; Teaching first-year college students
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol3/iss1/36

Excerpt: This volume is an excellent revision of a fine, though outdated, handbook for college teachers, Erickson and Strommer's Teaching College Freshmen (Jossey-Bass, 1991).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...