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We Are In This Together!  Making Connections in the FYE Classroom

Strategies for Connecting in the First-Year Experience Classroom

  • Higher Education
  • Event
  • On-demand
  • Student Success
  • First Year Experience
  • The Teaching Table
  • 40 Minutes
  • On-Demand Video

Description

Everyone wants to feel like they belong.  Making connections with new students is essential if we want to retain them.  Watch this session to learn about specific assignments and teaching methods that help connect our students to each other, to our faculty, and to our college.

About Your Speaker

Andrea Franckowiak

Andrea Franckowiak is an Associate Professor of English at Dyersburg State Community College, located in the corner of Northwest Tennessee. She has worked at DSCC for 22 years. She teaches Composition I and II, World Literature, and the freshman seminar course, both on-ground and online. She is the Chair of the English Department, Coordinator of the freshman seminar course, Director of the Academic Success Centers, which offers tutoring services, review sessions, workshops, and a Midterm Recovery program. Andrea is passionate about student success and the positive impact that well-developed courses and programs can have on students; more so, she loves being in the classroom. Andrea is an educator, a trainer, a course and curriculum designer, a program architect, and a presenter on a local, state, and national level.