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Jennifer Smith
October 9, 2014
By Suzi Alkonis Suzi Alkonis : This is a great idea and a great blog: teachtolearn1.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-5-minute-lecture.html?spref=fb 2 (58 minutes ago) http://teachtolearn1.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-5-minute-lecture.html?spref=fb Not everything in a class should be or needs to be student discovery. Sometimes I just need to tell them something but I struggled for a long time to do it effectively and in a timely manner. Then I discovered the beauty of something I came to call The…
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Jennifer Smith
October 6, 2014
By Scott Knecht One night in graduate school I went to the opening session of a new class. It was a bit of a different schedule – 2 nights a week for 4 hours per night for 4 weeks – so I had to get mentally prepared to endure the length each night. Little did I know the adventure that awaited. The teacher walked in at the appointed hour, called…
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Jennifer Smith
February 22, 2013
If you’ve got a lot of material to cover in a short amount of time, you can cover the material more efficiently when you know what students already know about the topic. One way to quickly assess student understanding of series of events is to give them strips of paper with the main events summarized as a list. Have the class work in groups and race to sort the events…
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Jennifer Smith
January 31, 2013
Ah, the dreaded Pop Quiz. There’s a reason that this old-style teaching method hasn’t been thrown out: it’s super effective. This evil-sounding tool can be used by the wise teacher to help cover a lot of material very quickly, review previously studied material, or to determine how well students are understanding material. Plus, it takes very little preparation time by the teacher. Write your questions. Your questions should be of…
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Jennifer Smith
December 31, 2012
I use the phrase “Today We Learned…” to help establish direction in my lessons. First, I determine a lesson objective. Most of my lesson objectives start with the phrase “Students will …” Here are some I’ve used this week during our study of Luke: Students will understand that friends and relatives of Jesus Christ had valuable characteristics that they can seek to emulate. Copying these characteristics will allow students to…
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