Teaching Unprepared Students by Kathleen F. Gabriel; Sandra Flake (Foreword by)Call Number: LB2331.2 .G33 2008 on the JPL 3rd Floor
ISBN: 9781579222307
Publication Date: 2008
As societal expectations about attending college have grown, professors report increasing numbers of students who are unprepared for the rigors of postsecondary education-not just more students with learning disabilities (whose numbers have more than tripled), but students (with and without special admission status) who are academically at-risk because of inadequate reading, writing and study skills. This book provides professors and their graduate teaching assistants-those at the front line of interactions with students-with techniques and approaches they can use in class to help at-risk students raise their skills so that they can successfully complete their studies. The author shares proven practices that will not only engage all students in a class, but also create the conditions-while maintaining high standards and high expectations-to enable at-risk and under-prepared students to develop academically and graduate with good grades.