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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ross, Kathleen A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.