Hello Tipsters--
Our university is implementing "freshmen friendly" courses this fall,
and I've been asked to participate, as I am teaching 2 sections of
general psychology. What follows below is an except of what we are
being asked to do
We are going to try to make the First Year Experience for incoming
freshman this year a very positive experience by not only scheduling
students for a First Year Experience Course but also what we would like
to call Freshman Friendly courses. We hope that the two experiences will
provide the support that these students need to be successful at WJU.
Your course has been identified as such a course, and you have been
identified as such a professor.
These Freshman Friendly Courses, which would be primarily for incoming
freshmen, but could have a few upper level students, would include the
following:
3) explicit discussion (beyond the syllabus) of how to succeed in the
course,
6) explicit effort to build a sense of community both among the students
in the course and between students and the larger WJU community.
If Tipsters would be willing to share for #3) the types of things they
mention in their own class on succeeding in the course and for #6)
again, things you've done to build community in the classroom and the
larger campus community, I would be most appreciative. For both of
these, we are to engage in them multiple times over the semester
(discussing how to do well in the course, building and maintaining
community).
Thanks so much,
Julie Osland
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Dr. Julie A. Osland, M.A., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Wheeling Jesuit University
316 Washington Avenue
Wheeling, WV 26003
Office: (304) 243-2329
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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