{"id":1368,"date":"2015-01-20T10:05:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2015-02-12T10:08:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T16:08:05","slug":"new-semester-new-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/new-semester-new-you\/","title":{"rendered":"New Semester, New You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1351\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/imgres-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"imgres\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/imgres-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/imgres.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>January reminds us all to set goals for the 2015 year. \u00a0It&#8217;s a great way to have a\u00a0fresh start. \u00a0 \u00a0With the new semester back in full swing, help the students set and achieve goals throughout the term. \u00a0Start the semester off with the students reflecting on what they want to get from the semester. \u00a0Remind them that they chose this course, so what do they want to learn or gain from this experience? \u00a0 By helping the students identify why they are taking the course or what they hope to learn, this helps the students have a focus for the class. \u00a0 Asking questions about the students engagement and involvement in the course will encourage participation and will also provide a sense of community within your classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January reminds us all to set goals for the 2015 year. \u00a0It&#8217;s a great way to have a\u00a0fresh start. \u00a0 \u00a0With the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DI6r-m4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}