{"id":3298,"date":"2020-03-10T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2022-10-20T11:52:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:52:57","slug":"retrieval-and-a-bonus-side-product-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/retrieval-and-a-bonus-side-product-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrieval and a bonus side-product\u2014humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3298\" class=\"elementor elementor-3298\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-35332ae9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"35332ae9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6acfe38a\" data-id=\"6acfe38a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3a0530b5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3a0530b5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<p>When I\u2019ve taught a class a dozen times, as I have the Teaching the Writing Process class that trains writing tutors, I tend to think I know what I\u2019m doing. But if I don\u2019t keep things fresh\u2014and particularly if I don\u2019t remember that I have a unique group of students each time\u2014I run the risk of running off track. I imagine we all do. Here\u2019s how I solved this concern recently, the first class of Week 5 of the semester.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I realized a couple of things:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I wanted to continue to use what I\u2019ve learned reading<br \/><em>Small Teaching<\/em> by James Lang in our Center for Teaching and Learning\u2019s<br \/>spring faculty learning community. Chapter 1 focuses on the benefits of<br \/>\u201cretrieval.\u201d\u2014basically the concept that to learn things we need to practice<br \/>remembering it, retrieving it.<\/li>\n<li>I knew I should check in with my students as a<br \/>best practice; we\u2019re five weeks in.<\/li>\n<li>I wanted to continue to work to make myself<br \/>\u201chuman\u201d and accessible to students, a demographic that sometimes finds me<br \/>intimidating despite my efforts at humor and warmth. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>So I jotted down a few questions I thought would be useful, things that would allow them to bolster their knowledge through retrieval <em>and<\/em> would give me information I could use to most effectively lead the students forward. Then I put the questions on slides so students could visually follow along. First, I wanted them to think back since I knew I\u2019d rushed through a few tricky things last week. I wanted to find out what they remembered. And I wanted to them to crowdsource the info. With a photo of my puppy (my efforts at being human and approachable), I displayed this:?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"540\" class=\"wp-image-3297\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_1-1024x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_1-1024x540.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_1-300x158.jpg 300w, http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_1-768x405.jpg 768w, http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_1-830x438.jpg 830w, http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_1-230x121.jpg 230w, http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_1-350x185.jpg 350w, http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_1-480x253.jpg 480w, http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_1.jpg 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The boards filled quickly with ideas such as the research<br \/>paper coming up, paraphrasing, style vs. correctness, and lots of other topics<br \/>we\u2019d addressed. Great! But in addition to the benefit they would garner by<br \/>retrieving this information, as the professor I wanted to know more. I knew I<br \/>needed individual responses.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I love notecards. So the next prompt, pictured with my grown-up dog, asked them to write to me on notecards\u2014an activity they\u2019re familiar with because we\u2019ve done it before.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" class=\"wp-image-3296\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_2-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_2-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_2-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_2-768x433.jpg 768w, http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_2-830x468.jpg 830w, http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_2-230x130.jpg 230w, http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_2-350x197.jpg 350w, http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_2-480x271.jpg 480w, http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Retrieving_2.jpg 1361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I was tempted to feel this added 15 minutes of time took<br \/>away from what I needed to cover. But, no. I learned about what I needed to<br \/>reinforce in my lessons; I learned which students needed more individual<br \/>support from me; and overall, I opened the door wider for honest and open<br \/>dialogue between my students and me. I\u2019ve been able to follow up with the class<br \/>as a whole and individual students. Our learning community is getting closer.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00ad\u00ad\u00adEllen Sprague is an associate professor of writing in<br \/>the Center for Teaching and Learning, and she loves to try new teaching<br \/>strategies. 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