{"id":67001,"date":"2019-04-25T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=67001"},"modified":"2019-04-25T10:04:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T14:04:38","slug":"building-rapport-with-students-agarwal-lang-2-qs-to-ask-in-the-last-5-mins-of-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/04\/25\/building-rapport-with-students-agarwal-lang-2-qs-to-ask-in-the-last-5-mins-of-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Building rapport with students [Agarwal &#038; Lang] + 2 Q&#8217;s to ask in the last 5 mins of class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>An excerpt from a recent e-newsletter from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoojaAgarwal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D.<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retrievalpractice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RetrievalPractice.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Want more tips for building rapport with students? We highly recommend Professor James Lang&#8217;s series in the Chronicle of Higher Education on how to make the most of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Small-Changes-in-Teaching-The\/234178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/retrievalpractice.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db3d71aab0981e7680ed07847a%26id%3D07dd347b2b%26e%3D7273286fed&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1556285595507000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFnz0juwovZ6axDCiFBiBfCks2D1g\">The few minutes before class<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Small-Changes-in-Teaching-The\/234869\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/retrievalpractice.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db3d71aab0981e7680ed07847a%26id%3Db0a118b968%26e%3D7273286fed&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1556285595507000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG9y-KwmjVh1lAlcsd_UqD2kRF8ng\">The first 5 minutes of class<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Small-Changes-in-Teaching-The\/235583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/retrievalpractice.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db3d71aab0981e7680ed07847a%26id%3Dc85e8b0454%26e%3D7273286fed&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1556285595507000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEhYDjabuTYmtbTaOHz9cYySA4xLg\">The last 5 minutes of class<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We love his book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1118944496\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/retrievalpractice.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db3d71aab0981e7680ed07847a%26id%3Df551a660e2%26e%3D7273286fed&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1556285595507000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEknBX7fGpcMHPptFcGY09Ia1bVow\">Small Teaching<\/a>. It&#8217;s full of practical teaching strategies\u00a0<strong>and <\/strong>the science behind them. For example, combine retrieval, spacing, feedback, and more with quick and easy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.retrievalpractice.org\/strategies\/2018\/8\/31\/connection-notebooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/retrievalpractice.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db3d71aab0981e7680ed07847a%26id%3Daa75adc37a%26e%3D7273286fed&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1556285595507000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHzXG-uaPcKJqm0GmC6zkeEjx7g7Q\">Connection Notebooks<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Small-Changes-in-Teaching-The\/235583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/retrievalpractice.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db3d71aab0981e7680ed07847a%26id%3Dc85e8b0454%26e%3D7273286fed&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1556285595507000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEhYDjabuTYmtbTaOHz9cYySA4xLg\">the last 5 minutes of class<\/a> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Don\u2019t waste them trying to cram in eight more points or call out as many reminders as possible<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The minute paper.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>You can\u2019t wade very far into the literature of teaching and learning in higher education without encountering some version of the Minute Paper, a technique made justly famous by Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross in their book\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Classroom-Assessment-Techniques-Handbook-Teachers\/dp\/1555425003\/\">Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0The Minute Paper comes in many variations, but the simplest one involves wrapping up the formal class period a few minutes early and posing two questions to your students:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>What was the most important thing you learned today?<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>What question still remains in your mind?<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taken together, those two questions accomplish multiple objectives. The first one not only requires students to remember something from class and articulate it in their own words (more about that in a moment), but it also requires them to do some quick thinking. They have to reflect on the material and make a judgment about the main point of that day\u2019s class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt from a recent e-newsletter from Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D. from RetrievalPractice.org Want more tips for building rapport with students? We highly recommend Professor James Lang&#8217;s series in the Chronicle of Higher Education on how to make the most of: The few minutes before class The first 5 minutes of class The last 5 [&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":[121,3,373,46,78,173,66,89,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-face-to-face","category-higher-education","category-homeschoolinghomeschoolers","category-k-12-related","category-memory","category-pedagogy","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67001","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=67001"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67006,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67001\/revisions\/67006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}