Teaching Unprepared Students: Strategies for Promoting Success and Retention in Higher Education - Paperback

by Kathleen F. Gabriel (Author)

This book provides professors and their graduate teaching assistants-those at the front line of interactions with students-with techniques and approaches they can use in class to help at-risk students raise their skills so that they can successfully complete their studies.

Author Biography

Kathleen F. Gabriel is currently an associate professor at California State University (CSU), Chico, and an educational consultant. She began her extensive teaching career as a high school social science teacher before she became a resource specialist teacher for students with learning disabilities. When moving to the university setting, she first developed an academic support program for at-risk and unprepared college students. She also became a faculty development specialist at the University of Arizona. She then served as the director of disabled student services at a community college in Northern California before joining the School of Education at CSU, Chico, where she has received two teaching awards. Sandra M. Flake is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the California State University, Chico.