{"id":1897,"date":"2016-07-20T00:05:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T14:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/teaching@sydney\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2016-08-06T23:19:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T13:19:13","slug":"small-changes-teaching-last-5-minutes-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/small-changes-teaching-last-5-minutes-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Small changes in teaching: the last 5 minutes of class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a series of articles in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Small-Changes-in-Teaching-The\/234178\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Chronicle<\/a>\u00a0from his book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Small-Teaching-Everyday-Lessons-Learning\/dp\/1118944496\" target=\"_blank\">Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning<\/a>&#8220;,\u00a0James M. Lang presents simple and practical ideas ideally suited\u00a0to try out in lectures.\u00a0In the fourth article, quick suggestions for making better use of the final minutes of lectures:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The minute paper<\/strong>: ask students to write down their thoughts on two questions:\n<ul>\n<li>What was the most important thing you learned in today&#8217;s lecture?<\/li>\n<li>What are you still unsure about?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If these answers are entered on the class <a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/programs\/teaching_insights\/pdf\/insight13-strategies-for-engaging-students-in-online-discussions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">discussion forum<\/a> or via a <a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/news\/news.cfm?item=1102\" target=\"_blank\">response device<\/a>, the students answers can be displayed anonymously in the class for discussion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Closing connections<\/strong>: offer students the opportunity to finish the lecture early after they have made a list of\u00a05 ways in which the lecture material relates to contexts outside the lecture theatre.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The metacognitive five<\/strong>:\u00a0after a mid-semester test or quiz, ask students to spend two minutes writing down how they studied. As with (1), this information could also be collected electronically. Before the final exam, make a slide with two columns, showing the approaches used by high and low achieving students and spend 5 minutes talking about study strategies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Close the loop<\/strong>: repeat an activity used in the <a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/news\/news.cfm?item=1084\" target=\"_blank\">first 5 minutes of class<\/a> and discuss how the lecture material has moved their understanding forward.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a series of articles in\u00a0The Chronicle\u00a0from his book &#8220;Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning&#8220;,\u00a0James M. 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