This book's 10 chapters offer support and information on effective training of instructors of first-year college seminars. The included chapters are: (1) "Instructor Training: Rationale, Results, and Content Basics" (Joseph B. Cuseo); (2) "Teaching and Today's Changing First-Year Students" (M. Lee Upcraft and Pamela S. Stephens); (3) "What We Know about Students and How They Learn" (M. Lee Upcraft and Jennifer L. Crissman); (4) "Teaching First-Year College Students: Ten Tips for Success" (Diane W. Strommer); (5) "Approaches to Group Learning in the New-Student Seminar" (Joseph B. Cuseo); (6) "Facilitating a Group" (Constance Staley); (7) "Ensuring the Success of Faculty Training Workshops" (Mary Stuart Hunter and Joseph B. Cuseo); (8) "The Teaching Experience: A Faculty Development Workshop Series at the University of South Carolina" (Dan Berman and Mary Stuart Hunter); (9) "Assessment and Evaluation of Instructor Training Programs" (Joseph B. Cuseo); and (10) "Outcomes and Future Directions of Instructor Training Programs" (Mary Stuart Hunter and John N. Gardner). Appendices include a bibliography, which contains 40 references, and a list of institutions that offer first-year seminar instructor training. (Individual papers contain references.) (DB)