Students in college need to be encouraged to take advantage of office hours and other resources provided by the post-secondary institution. Students need to design their own review strategies, with the help of the instructor during office hours if necessary, to prepare for tests. It is also the student's responsibility to learn from graded work individually or in discussion with the instructor outside of class. Additionally, appropriate textbooks, when they become available, must be adopted to accommodate the longer sessions with less total time available. In post-secondary settings, no teacher should be teaching who does not have the above credentials plus hours towards a masters in mathematics.
Unprepared teachers arise from courses being assigned at the last minute.
This practice should be kept at a minimum if it cannot be eliminated completely. The teacher must have working conditions and preparation time which allows a positive attitude towards mathematics and towards the students. When the proper support is provided by the institution, then the teacher can begin to affect the student attitudes. Although there is no universal standard applied in college courses regarding class size, the class size needs to allow for effective instruction at the particular institution.