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Teaching First-Year
College Students
BETTE LASERE ERICKSON
CALVIN B. PETERS
DIANE WELTNER STROMMER
Teaching First-Year
College Students
Revised and
Expanded Edition of
Teaching College Freshmen
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PREFACE xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
ABOUT THE AUTHORS xix
PART ONEl
Understanding First-Year Students 1
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
Learning Styles 35
PART TWOl
Effective Instruction for First-Year Students 47
CHAPTER 4
vii
viii Contents
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
Grading 183
PART THREEl
Opportunities and Challenges
in First-Year Instruction 197
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
REFERENCES 265
INDEX 275
PREFACE
In the years since the first edition of this book appeared, millions of
first-year students have entered our nation’s colleges and universities.
By most estimates, only about half have completed their studies and
emerged four, five, or six years later as freshly minted graduates. Some,
of course, were not prepared for the challenges of college and academic
life; others found the financial burden too much to bear, and still others
tired of the classroom and abandoned academic routine to take their
chances in life beyond the campus. But many more, perhaps most,
were first-year students brimming with potential who encountered an
institution out of step with their needs, a campus climate that was un-
welcoming and unsupportive, and faculty who were all too often aloof,
distant, and seemingly disinterested in students’ struggles to fit in so-
cially and succeed academically.
We in higher education have known for some time that the lives
of students who enter colleges or universities are profoundly affected
by their experiences in their first semesters, if not their first weeks on
campus. If they feel welcomed, challenged, and supported, first-year
students flourish. They persist in their studies, grow as human be-
ings, and eventually become the sort of informed and inquiring citi-
zens so essential for our times. If they feel abandoned and adrift, at
once ignored and overwhelmed, they do what we all would do in
similar circumstances: flee to places that are more comforting and
more affirming.
The attrition of so many new college students exacts a high
price—in dollars, in missed opportunity, and in human lives. Of
course, the movement to direct the academy’s attention to the experi-
ences of first-year students recognized this fact more than two decades
xi
xii Preface
Audiencel
Teaching First-Year College Students was written primarily for those col-
lege and university faculty who teach first-year students. Although we
draw on the research and theory of learning, our emphasis through-
out is on practical application of these insights in the classroom. In
nearly every chapter there are concrete suggestions about approaches
and practices that we believe will improve the quality of instruction
in first-year courses.
New faculty, who are often assigned to teach first-year courses,
will find discussion ranging from the initial steps of course design
through the conduct of class sessions and creation of assignments, to
assessment of student performance and assigning of grades. Although
our focus is on the first-year student and the first-year course, we be-
lieve faculty new to the professoriate will find our treatment of teach-
ing and learning a useful general introduction to a crucial aspect of
faculty careers.
For more experienced faculty, our discussion of the characteristics
of first-year students and the practices that meet their needs will be a
helpful review. Some may be returning to entry-level courses after
teaching upper-division or graduate students, only to find that those
techniques that worked so well with seniors or juniors are much less ef-
fective with first-year students. Others, for whom first-year instruction
has been a way of life, may need a fresh start, a new approach, a differ-
ent sort of assignment to reinvigorate courses that have grown a bit
stale. Teaching First-Year College Students offers an extensive menu of the-
oretically informed practices that should allow both these groups of vet-
Preface xiii
Themesl
Our discussion of teaching and learning in the first year of college is
knitted together by three themes. First, we argue that those of us who
teach first-year students need to meet them where they are, with rea-
sonable rigor and appropriate support. This may seem to be a gloss on the
obvious, but what it demands is not easily accomplished. Designing
and conducting courses for first-year students that ask neither too
much nor too little is a craft that requires considerable informed re-
flection and a deft touch. Likewise, supporting first-year students in
their endeavors requires more than encouragement and empathy.
Finding the right tasks, prompting the right practice, giving the right
feedback to meet the diverse needs of first-year students is a challenge
of the first order.
Second, we argue that first-year instruction demands variety—in
approaches, examples, presentation style, assignments, evaluation,
and nearly everything we do as instructors. First-year students bring
to our campuses a range of learning styles, educational experiences,
and cultural practices. Instruction that asks all of them to attend to the
same things in the same way inevitably marginalizes some, obscuring
their talents and potentials. Our emphasis on variety is not a call to
spice up dull courses. Rather, it grows out of our deep appreciation for
the insights produced by the research on learning styles, and our
awareness that first-year students approach and accomplish learning
in divergent ways.
Third, we argue that instruction in our first-year courses is effec-
tive only to the extent that it succeeds in engaging our students. There
is, of course, no shortage of advice along these lines, and we are happy
to join the chorus. But engaging first-year students is both more diffi-
cult and more important than the usual recommendations for active
xiv Preface
learning might suggest. Many first-year students enter our courses un-
derpracticed in doing much more than committing things to memory.
When we seek to engage them in activities and assignments that
require deeper learning, they (and often we) founder. Yet it is in our
first-year courses that students lay the foundation for future courses,
not only in terms of content but also with regard to their academic
skills and intellectual development. Unless we engage first-year stu-
dents in those practices that sustain deep learning, we shortchange
both them and our institutions.
A Last Wordl
Naturally, we hope that faculty will read all of Teaching First-Year Col-
lege Students, but we recognize that with busy lives and numerous
demands on their time the cover-to-cover approach may not always
be feasible. The book can be sampled profitably; the practices dis-
cussed in Part Two are grounded in the discussion of Part One, but
most of them can be adopted (and adapted) on a more ad hoc basis.
We know that good teaching takes considerable time and attention.
But we also know that trying out new assignments, including new
examples, and employing new evaluation techniques is risky busi-
ness. So whether you read from beginning to end or dip in here and
there, we suggest you find one or two ideas of interest, try them out,
and once you’re comfortable with them come back later for more.
There is much more to be said about both first-year students and
how we teach them than we have had room to include. Our portrait
of first-year students could be expanded to include more discussion of
those who are nontraditional, and our examples of assignments, exam
questions, and course designs could have covered more disciplines,
more types of courses, and more kinds of campuses. Nevertheless, we
believe that the outlines of who first-year students are and what they
require from us to succeed are here. There may be factors that some-
times and in some places make some needs more acute than others,
but the basic challenge remains: to meet our first-year students with
reasonable rigor and appropriate support. If we do that, their lives—
and ours—will be richer.
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