{"id":1160,"date":"2013-09-03T15:15:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T21:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2014-12-16T15:31:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T21:31:11","slug":"september-3-2013-nonparticipants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/september-3-2013-nonparticipants\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonparticipants"},"content":{"rendered":"

In class discussions, there are several types of students. Those who engage and consistently share their ideas, but there are also students who do not participate.\u00a0 According to Wilbert J McKeachie and Marilla Svinicki, these students are called \u201cnonparticipants.\u201d\u00a0 In McKeachie\u2019s <\/em>Teaching Tips<\/em>, McKeachie and Svinicki suggest several ways to encourage nonparticipants to share their ideas.<\/p>\n

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  1. Have students break into smaller groups and\/or partners so they can discuss their thoughts first with a more intimate setting.<\/li>\n
  2. Encourage students to write down their thoughts, so they can formulate them into a cohesive idea before sharing.<\/li>\n
  3. Reward and affirm students when they share.\u00a0 Giving them a smile or a nod to acknowledge their ideas and\/or thoughts.<\/li>\n
  4. Ask questions that do not have a right or wrong answer.\u00a0 Fear of being wrong is a major reason for nonparticipants.\u00a0 So, asking more open ended and general questions encourages participation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In class discussions, there are several types of students. Those who engage and consistently share their ideas, but there are also students […]<\/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,"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-1160","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-iI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}