Breakthrough Strategies: Classroom-based Practices to Support New Majority College Students - Couverture souple

Ross, Kathleen A.

 
9781612509976: Breakthrough Strategies: Classroom-based Practices to Support New Majority College Students
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ISBN 10 : 1612509975 ISBN 13 : 9781612509976
Editeur : Harvard Educational Publishing Group, 2016

Synopsis

Breakthrough Strategies identifies effective strategies that faculty have used to help New Majority students--those from minority, immigrant, or disadvantaged backgrounds--build the necessary skills to succeed in college. As the proportion of New Majority students rises, there is increased attention to helping them gain access to college. Once enrolled, however, these students often face significant challenges of adjustment, with few resources for support. Specifically, there is little attention to students' experiences within their college classrooms and their relationships with professors. At the same time, faculty who work with these students have little guidance on how to help them adjust to new expectations and identities as they engage with college-level work.

Sister Kathleen A. Ross, a MacArthur fellow and president emerita of Heritage University, has devoted three decades to helping New Majority students get college degrees. Based on an action-research project undertaken at Heritage University and Yakima Valley Community College in Washington State, the book highlights eleven strategies to encourage student success, including: asking questions in class; navigating the syllabus; and developing an academic identity. Written in a warm, down-to-earth voice, Breakthrough Strategies is infused with the belief that faculty can become a powerful resource for students, and that classroom instruction can be an important vehicle for supporting these students' development and success.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kathleen A. Ross is president emerita and professor of cross-cultural communication at Heritage University, a four-year institution that she founded in 1982 and led for twenty-eight years.

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Éditeur
Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1612509975
ISBN 13 
9781612509976
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
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