International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 3, Number 1, January 2009

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Book Review

Excerpt

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

This volume is an excellent revision of a fine, though outdated, handbook for college teachers, Erickson and Strommer's Teaching College Freshmen (Jossey-Bass, 1991).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

Review by
Susan Yager
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa, USA
syager@iastate.edu

I received my bachelor's and master's degrees from the Catholic University of America and my Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, all in English. I am an associate professor of English and associate director of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at Iowa State University, where I have taught since 1991. My research interests include the language of Geoffrey Chaucer, recent treatments of Chaucer's narratives, and medieval studies pedagogy. I am also interested in optimal design of learning spaces and in universal design for diverse college audiences, including high-ability students and students with autism.

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