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Building Community

101 Things You Can Do the First Three Weeks of Class
by Joyce Povlacs Lunde, University of Nebraska
Wide range of ideas for how to get your class started.

Diversity

Diversity/Inclusive Teaching Tips
School of Education, Indiana University-Bloomington
Outstanding information, clearly presented, about teaching in an inclusive manner.

Freshman

Tools for Faculty-First Year Programs
This UO site, designed for FIG instructors, provides specific suggestions for community building, discussion activities, writing activities, and presentations.

Best Practices for Teaching First-Year Undergraduates ( PDF File)
This PDF file , by Susan Ambrose and Rea Freeland, Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence, Carnegie-Mellon University. outlines reasons why first year students need special consideration and provides numerous specific strategies to use in the classroom.

Who Needs These Headaches? Reflections on Teaching First-Year Engineering Students
Insights gained by a veteran instructor, Richard M. Felder of North Carolina State University, about teaching first-year students for the first time in a while.

In the Undergraduate Mind: The First-Year Experience from Three Perspectives (Occasional Paper, No. 3)
This article from the Teaching Resource Center at the University of Virginia describes the first-year experience from the perspectives of student, parent, and instructor

First Generation College Students

First Generation Students in Postsecondary Education: A Look at their College Transcripts
Report from the United States Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics

Characteristics of first-generation college students. (1998).
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 42(3), 220-221.
(Available through full-text feature of UO Libraries.)
Summary of findings from Department of Education report above.

Getting Students To Prepare For Class

Classroom teaching strategies and techniques - What to Do When Students Don't Read
Specific ideas for what to do when students do not do the reading from the Instructional Consulting Library developed by the School of Education at Indiana University-Bloomington.

Getting Students to Prepare for Class
Concise summary of a number of things you can do to encourage students to prepare for class. From the Office for Professional Development at IUPUI. (Downloads as a Word Document file.)

Getting Students to Read the Book
Professor Bob Megginson from the University of Michigan offers specific suggestions about how to get students to do the reading assignment for that day.

 

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