Finding Ways to Hook Students Early

James L. Preston West Hills College Lemoore (Calif.)

When James L. Preston first started teaching, he would lecture for 45 minutes straight. That was the way he had been taught in graduate school. But it wasn't working.

"I was losing my students," says Mr. Preston, an instructor of English and teacher education at West Hills College Lemoore, in California. And since most of his students hope to someday be teachers themselves, he didn't want to turn them off. So he tweaked his

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