Welcoming Students
What we do on the first day and in the first week of class, greatly determine
how success it will be for students and for instructors. Creating a welcoming
environment for learning is critical to the learning process. The resources
below provide wonderful suggestions for how to make this happen.(NOTE: This link will open in a new browser window)
- The
First Day of Class
This chapter from Tools for Teaching, written by Barbara Gross Davis from the University of California, Berkeley, provides an overview of things to do on the first day of class.
- 101
Things You Can Do the First Three Weeks of Class
This article, written by Joyce Povlacs Lunde from the University of Nebraska, provides an amazing range of ideas for how to get your class started.
- What
should I do the first day of class?
Specific ideas and suggestions for what you can do on the first day of class from the Teaching Effectiveness Program at the University of Oregon.
- The
First Day of Class: What Can/Should We Do?
Nine specific suggestions for what you need to do the first day of class from the Instructional Development Program at the University of Oklahoma.
- Learning
Students' Names
This article was adapted from Great Beginnings: Learning Students' Names from the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Kansas and contains lots of ideas for how to remember student names.
Address questions or comments about TEP or this site to:
Georgeanne Cooper, Program Director, 64 PLC
Phone: 541-346-2177 Fax: 541-346-2184
Teaching Effectiveness Program, Teaching and Learning Center, University of Oregon.
Last Modified:
07/07/09