Select an item by clicking its checkbox
Understanding and Engaging Under-Resourced College Students
Additional Info:
The degree to which your post-secondary school understands and supports students from poverty makes all the difference in meeting your recruitment, retention, and graduation goals. Understanding your students starts with better information about their personal experience of poverty, and about the skills and strengths they bring with them to college. Supporting your students involves creating opportunities to access a variety of resources, remedial education relevant to their lives, and fully engaged relationships inside of school and out.
You'll learn to:
Recognize the impact of economic class on student preparedness and educational success
Build on students' existing resources, experiences, and abilities
Encourage student success through curriculum design and programming
Partner with communities and businesses to support academic progress
Help students look beyond the classroom through service learning and civic engagement (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Foreword
Section I - What Is Poverty?
ch. 1 Colleges, Resources, and Economic Class
ch. 2 What Are the Causes of Poverty?
ch. 3 Internal Resources
ch. 4 External Resources
Section II - The Why and the How of Addressing Low Resources
ch. 5 In Action—the Why and the How of Learning Strategies
ch. 6 In Action—the Why and the How of Instructional Design
Section III - How to Shift to the Additive Model
ch. 7 Paradigm Shifts in Higher Education
ch. 8 In Action—Facilitating the Getting Ahead, College Edition Curriculum
Section IV - How to Shift Institutions and Communities
ch. 9 Building Synergy Among Stakeholders
ch. 10 Resources and the College Campus
ch. 11 Developing Human and Social Capital on the Campus and in the Community
ch. 12 Beyond the Classroom—Fostering Student Engagement with Sociopolitical and Economic Structures
ch. 13 Developing Community Partnerships
Appendices
References
Index
The degree to which your post-secondary school understands and supports students from poverty makes all the difference in meeting your recruitment, retention, and graduation goals. Understanding your students starts with better information about their personal experience of poverty, and about the skills and strengths they bring with them to college. Supporting your students involves creating opportunities to access a variety of resources, remedial education relevant to their lives, and fully engaged relationships inside of school and out.
You'll learn to:
Recognize the impact of economic class on student preparedness and educational success
Build on students' existing resources, experiences, and abilities
Encourage student success through curriculum design and programming
Partner with communities and businesses to support academic progress
Help students look beyond the classroom through service learning and civic engagement (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Foreword
Section I - What Is Poverty?
ch. 1 Colleges, Resources, and Economic Class
ch. 2 What Are the Causes of Poverty?
ch. 3 Internal Resources
ch. 4 External Resources
Section II - The Why and the How of Addressing Low Resources
ch. 5 In Action—the Why and the How of Learning Strategies
ch. 6 In Action—the Why and the How of Instructional Design
Section III - How to Shift to the Additive Model
ch. 7 Paradigm Shifts in Higher Education
ch. 8 In Action—Facilitating the Getting Ahead, College Edition Curriculum
Section IV - How to Shift Institutions and Communities
ch. 9 Building Synergy Among Stakeholders
ch. 10 Resources and the College Campus
ch. 11 Developing Human and Social Capital on the Campus and in the Community
ch. 12 Beyond the Classroom—Fostering Student Engagement with Sociopolitical and Economic Structures
ch. 13 Developing Community Partnerships
Appendices
References
Index