Wilson Teaching Learning And Millennial Students Summary

“Teaching, Learning, and Millennial Students” by Maureen Wilson discusses how college professors can use effective teaching strategies in the classroom to best impact long term learning methods of Millennial Students. Wilson breaks her article into two sections; Elements of Effective Teaching and Teaching Millennials. In the Elements of Effective Teaching section, Wilson explains the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education by Chickering and Gamson. Each principle has its own subheading where she explains each strategy with supporting evidence. In the second section, Teaching Millennials, Wilson discusses the personal qualities of the millennial generation. The personal qualities or main factors of millennials that Wilson felt was important each have a section heading as well. Although Wilson ties together a convincing argument, she does not present her ideas in an effective manner.
First, in the Elements of Effective Teaching, Wilson attempts to only explain best practices for
On my first time reading the article, I lost focus that the goal of the article was to relate these methods to helping millennials. She does a poor job of integrating millennials into her argument into this section. When she does integrate the personal qualities of millennials, she does not make an effective argument for that particular principle. For example, in the Student-Faculty Contact subheading, Wilson (2004) argues how professors who interact with students out of classroom related activities have more of an impact on their students’ success (p. 60). However, Wilson (2004) relates the principle to Millennials by adding “those millennials who had a sheltered upbringing and parents who advocated for them will need to learn how to deal with