{"id":1375,"date":"2015-01-27T10:29:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T16:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2015-02-12T10:33:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T16:33:53","slug":"interview-with-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/interview-with-a-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with a Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now in our second week of the spring semester,\u00a0\u00a0students are taking new classes and learning new concepts and ideas. \u00a0Sometimes new concepts means learning new vocabulary. \u00a0This <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1353 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/imgres1-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"imgres\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/imgres1-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/imgres1.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>discipline specific vocabulary may\u00a0be difficult for the students to understand or grasp. \u00a0One vocabulary strategy is to have students interview a word. \u00a0To do this, have a list of words that relate to your discipline or unit and a list of questions that can be asked of the word. \u00a0 First, split your class into teams of 2-4 students. \u00a0 Give each group a word and questions to answer. \u00a0The groups spend time acting as the word to\u00a0brainstorm answers to the questions. \u00a0 After the students have practiced answering the questions, then you interview each of the teams to see if they know the answers. \u00a0This could turn into a mini warm up activity to get the students thinking about words from the reading. \u00a0Another variation is making this a trivia game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now in our second week of the spring semester,\u00a0\u00a0students are taking new classes and learning new concepts and ideas. \u00a0Sometimes new concepts [&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":[113,114],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-tips","tag-vocabulary","tag-write"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DI6r-mb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}