Breakthrough strategies : classroom-based practices to support New Majority college students /
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...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard Education Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- The breakthrough strategies project
- Welcome to Heritage University
- Communication, culture, and the new majority
- Part One. Strategies for engagement: Engaging students through effective feedback
- Helping students ask questions
- Engaging students with analogies
- Part Two. Strategies to promote a sense of belonging: Welcoming students with first-day activities
- Relating to students' life situations
- Reframing the classroom as community
- Part Three. Strategies to engender confidence: Creating confidence: a professor's role
- Journaling for confidence and deeper thinking
- Developing students' own academic ideas
- Part Four. Strategies to build a vision for the future: Envisioning an academic identity: how professors can help
- Building professional identities to counter stereotypes.