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    Creating the path to success in the classroom : teaching to close the graduation gap for minority, first-generation, and academically unprepared students / Kathleen F. Gabriel ; foreword by Stephen Carroll.
    by Gabriel, Kathleen F., author.
    Sterling, Virginia : Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2018.
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    xiv, 179 pages ; 23 cm
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    First edition.
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    1 Retention, persistence, and success: Clarifying the challenge -- Introduction -- Institutional response and increased expectations -- What does teaching have to do with this? -- Significance of the teaching professor -- Overview of the chapters -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Class climate: Widening the circle for a diverse student body -- Introduction -- Promote a positive classroom climate -- Embrace students' diversity -- Increase our own cultural competence -- Encourage student interactions -- Foster a community of learners within our classes -- Conclusion -- 3 The first month of the semester: Engage, connect, and commit -- Introduction -- Class protocols (or policies) -- In-class engagement expectations -- Importance of making connections -- Activating prior knowledge -- Increase relevancy with real-world issues -- Culturally relevant material -- Significance of a commitment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Motivation and attitudes: Impact of mindsets and mental toughness attributes -- Introduction -- Mindsets: Fixed or growth -- Promoting growth mindsets -- Mental toughness -- Nurturing mental toughness components -- Self-efficacy reinforced -- Conclusion -- Note -- 5 Interactive lectures: Using meaningful educational activities -- Introduction -- Favoritism and bias of the traditional lecture format -- Creating interactive lectures -- Improving lecture techniques -- PowerPoints, class notes, and handouts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Reading assignments and class discussion: Stimulate deeper learning -- Introduction -- Required books: "Choose 'em and use 'em" -- Preparing for class: Reflections and responses -- Anticipating difficulty with the reading: Five steps to use -- Reading and critical thinking skills -- Conclusion -- Note -- 7 Writing assignments: Promote critical thinking and writing -- Introduction -- The quintessential value of the written word -- In-class response writing tasks -- Out-of-class reflective writing tasks -- Substantive formal writing: Procrastination and plagiarism -- Discouraging plagiarism and encouraging scrutiny of sources -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Resilience, habits, and persistence: Hold fast and see it through -- Introduction -- Building academic resilience -- Developing positive habits and routines -- Promoting productive persistence -- Conclusion -- Note -- Epilogue Final thoughts: Teacher impact on diverse college students -- Appendix A: Readings for expanding cultural competence -- Appendix B: Organizing student interaction with multiple small-group configurations -- Appendix C: Quote of the week: Examples from diverse people for supporting growth mindsets and mental toughness attributes -- Appendix D: Note-taking tips for students and a few tips for professors -- Appendix E: A strategy for building vocabulary.
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    This is a book for all faculty who are concerned with promoting the persistence of all students whom they teach. Most recognize that faculty play a major role in student retention and success because they typically have more direct contact with students than others on campus. However, little attention has been paid to role of the faculty in this specific mission or to the corresponding characteristics of teaching, teacher-student interactions, and connection to student affairs activities that lead to students' long-term engagement, to their academic success, and ultimately to graduation. At a time when the numbers of underrepresented students - working adults, minority, first-generation, low-income, and international students - is increasing, this book, a companion to her earlier Teaching Underprepared Students, addresses that lack of specific guidance by providing faculty with additional evidence-based instructional practices geared toward reaching all the students in their classrooms, including those from groups that traditionally have been the least successful, while maintaining high standards and expectations. Recognizing that there are no easy answers, Kathleen Gabriel offers faculty ideas that can be incorporated in, or modified to align with, faculty's existing teaching methods. She covers topics such as creating a positive and inclusive course climate, fostering a community of learners, increasing engagement and students' interactions, activating connections with culturally relevant material, reinforcing self-efficacy with growth mindset and mental toughness techniques, improving lectures by building in meaningful educational activities, designing reading and writing assignments for stimulating deep learning and critical thinking, and making grade and assessment choices that can promote learning. -- From Amazon.com.
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