Rutgers University Press 33 Simple Strategies: A Week-By-Week Resource for Faculty Teaching First-Year or First-Generation Students

I am a professor of computer science at a selective private university in the US. About a year ago I started paying closer attention to the fact that the environment in STEM (both in academia and industry) is not equally welcoming for everyone. I started to make changes to all aspects of my own work: advising, teaching, managing my research group. This book contributed a number of relevant, actionable and well-researched strategies that I am eager to try in my classroom next semester. I really appreciate that each suggested strategy is also accompanied by excerpts from student interviews that motivated that particular strategy. I also appreciate the pointers to academic literature and the explicit explanations of the rationales for the strategies. Not all of the strategies are relevant to the course I teach, but many are. And even though the guide is ostensibly about making the classrooms more welcoming to first-year and first-generation students, I think many of the suggestions are more broadly useful for making our classrooms both welcoming and effective.

This was an enjoyable, quick read. I recently finished my Ph.D. and am finishing up my first year of teaching full-time at the undergraduate level. This book provides some great nuggets of wisdom and offers advice and strategies to implement strategically throughout the semester. Great for new and returning teachers.

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Really wanted to like this book, and it's ok. A few good ideas but she repeats them over and over.