ABSTRACT
R. Boice presents 10 “first-order principles (FOP)” that are a great place to start because they are especially useful and valuable to new professors. These principles are moderate classroom incivilities with prosocial immediacies, wait, begin before feeling ready, work and teach in brief, regular sessions, stop, moderate overattachment to content and overreaction to criticism, moderate negative thinking and strong emotions, let others do some of the work, welcome learning and change, and build resilience by limiting wasted efforts. For Boice, the FOPs are approaches to teaching in higher education that result in “documented changes of things that matter and endure in college teaching,” producing “impressive outcomes” among those who have used them. The chapter provides an overview of foundational principles of teaching and learning can serve well when getting into the particulars of leading public relations classes.
