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Teaching first-year students can be both challenging and rewarding.  This website provides evidence-based advice, ideas and resources to assist you in easing your students’ transition to university teaching and learning.   It also provides an opportunity for you to hear from first-year instructors at Dalhousie who are sharing their own experiences of teaching in first-year classes, highlighting how they support students’ academic success.

Approaches and Strategies: Teaching First-Year Students

Engage Students in their Learning

Facilitating Student Success

Managing Large Classes

Assessment and Feedback

Supervising TAs

 

Dr. Srinivas (Srini) Sampalli Professor, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University

Dr. Sampalli shares his approaches and techniques that he uses in his first-year lectures to engage students’ interest and support their learning. 

 

International scholar, Professor John Gardner, spoke to faculty and staff on high impact strategies for student success at Dalhousie University.  Town Hall, May 17, 2016.  John is an educator, university professor and administrator.  He also serves as president of the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education (JNGI).

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