{"id":23,"date":"2008-05-27t15:02:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-27t15:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vanderbilt.edu\/cftpodcast\/?p=23"},"modified":"2010-07-29t18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29t18:52:10","slug":"episode-5-james-lang-on-teaching-first-year-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2008\/05\/episode-5-james-lang-on-teaching-first-year-students\/","title":{"rendered":"episode 5 \u2013 james lang on teaching first-year students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" src=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/lang.jpg\" alt=\"james lang\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" width=\"146\" height=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"msonormal\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana;\">in this episode, we feature an interview with james lang, associate professor of english at assumption college in massachusetts.  dr. lang is the author of <em>life on the tenure track: lessons from the first year<\/em>, a memoir chronicling his first year as a faculty member, and <em>on course: a week-by-week guide to your first semester of college teaching<\/em>.  he also writes &#8220;on course,&#8221; a column on teaching that appears in the <em>chronicle of higher education<\/em>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"msonormal\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana;\">in the interview, dr. lang discusses the idea that undergraduate students can experience some kind of personal transformation during their first year of college.  is transformation a reasonable goal for first-year students?  if not, what is a reasonable goal?  what are some conditions that facilitate these types of goals?  what are conditions that inhibit them?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"msonormal\"><a onclick=\"javascript: pagetracker._trackpageview('\/downloads\/ep05_james_lang');\" href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/cftpodcast\/ep05_james_lang.mp3\">episode 5 &#8211; james lang on teaching first-year students<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object id=\"audioplayer5\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"290\" height=\"24\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/blogs.vanderbilt.edu\/cftpodcast\/wp-content\/plugins\/audio-player\/player.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"playerid=5&amp;bg=0xf8f8f8&amp;leftbg=0xeeeeee&amp;lefticon=0x666666&amp;rightbg=0xcccccc&amp;rightbghover=0x999999&amp;righticon=0x666666&amp;righticonhover=0xffffff&amp;text=0x666666&amp;slider=0x666666&amp;track=0xffffff&amp;border=0x666666&amp;loader=0x9fffb8&amp;soundfile=http%3a%2f%2fblogs.vanderbilt.edu%2fcftpodcast%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2fep05_james_lang.mp3\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/blogs.vanderbilt.edu\/cftpodcast\/wp-content\/plugins\/audio-player\/player.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"playerid=5&amp;bg=0xf8f8f8&amp;leftbg=0xeeeeee&amp;lefticon=0x666666&amp;rightbg=0xcccccc&amp;rightbghover=0x999999&amp;righticon=0x666666&amp;righticonhover=0xffffff&amp;text=0x666666&amp;slider=0x666666&amp;track=0xffffff&amp;border=0x666666&amp;loader=0x9fffb8&amp;soundfile=http%3a%2f%2fblogs.vanderbilt.edu%2fcftpodcast%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2fep05_james_lang.mp3\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>[mp3, 24 min 15 sec]<\/p>\n<p class=\"msonormal\">relevant links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a onclick=\"javascript: pagetracker._trackpageview('\/outgoing\/lang_column');\" href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/jobs\/news\/2008\/02\/2008020101c\/careers.html\" target=\"_blank\">the myth of first-year enlightenment<\/a>&#8221; by james lang<\/li>\n<li><a onclick=\"javascript: pagetracker._trackpageview('\/outgoing\/clydesdale_book');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/cgi-bin\/hfs.cgi\/00\/220645.ctl\" target=\"_blank\"><em>the first year out: understanding american teens after high school<\/em><\/a> by tim clydesdale<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a onclick=\"javascript: pagetracker._trackpageview('\/outgoing\/perry_scheme');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cse.buffalo.edu\/~rapaport\/perry.positions.html\" target=\"_blank\">william perry&#8217;s scheme of intellectual and ethical development<\/a>&#8221; by william rapaport<\/li>\n<li><a onclick=\"javascript: pagetracker._trackpageview('\/outgoing\/clydesdale_book');\" href=\"http:\/\/commons.vanderbilt.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">the commons<\/a>, vanderbilt&#8217;s first-year experience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"msonormal\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana;\">if you have any comments on dr. lang&#8217;s thoughts about first-year experiences, we encourage you to leave a comment here. vanderbilt instructors are also welcome to call the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 at 322-7290 to arrange a meeting with a cft teaching consultant to discuss teaching first-year students.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in this episode, we feature an interview with james lang, associate professor of english at assumption college in massachusetts. dr. lang is the author of life on the tenure track: lessons from the first year, a memoir chronicling his first year as a faculty member, and on course: a week-by-week guide to your first semester&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/451"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}