{"id":65752,"date":"2019-01-08T10:31:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=65752"},"modified":"2019-01-08T20:47:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T01:47:24","slug":"how-to-teach-a-good-first-day-of-class-lang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/01\/08\/how-to-teach-a-good-first-day-of-class-lang\/","title":{"rendered":"How to teach a good first day of class [Lang]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/interactives\/advice-firstday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How to teach a good first day of class<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from chronicle.com by James Lang<br \/>\n<strong>Four Key Principles | Before the First Day | The First Day of Class | After the First Day | Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Do not begin the first day of the semester by immediately handing out the syllabus. Instead, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>spark their curiosity about the content first,<\/strong><\/span> and then demonstrate \u2014 with a review of the syllabus \u2014 how the course content can help satisfy that curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC: <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I think what\u2019s also implied here is putting one\u2019s case forward about <strong>how the content is ***relevant*** today.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also this is a good practice to do as well, but for the end of the term\/semester\/quarter\/whatever:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As we careen toward the end of the semester, take a moment to reflect: What was the best new thing you tried this semester? Mine was recording and posting to the LMS five-minute video overviews for each week&#8211;casual, just me and the laptop camera&#8211;on Sunday evenings. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/teaching?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#teaching<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James M. Lang (@LangOnCourse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LangOnCourse\/status\/1071945564135284736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to teach a good first day of class &#8212; from chronicle.com by James Lang Four Key Principles | Before the First Day | The First Day of Class | After the First Day | Resources Excerpt (emphasis DSC): Do not begin the first day of the semester by immediately handing out the syllabus. Instead, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,394,115,302,286,343,141,121,71,3,46,825,102,7,510,62,226,173,310,66,89,50,188,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-attention","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-digital-learning","category-education","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-face-to-face","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-k-12-related","category-law-schools","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-online-learning","category-passions","category-pedagogy","category-staying-relevant","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-teaching-online","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65762,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65752\/revisions\/65762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}