{"id":2103,"date":"2016-12-06T11:57:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2016-12-06T11:57:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:57:52","slug":"dont-forget-the-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/dont-forget-the-bow\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t forget the bow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love to wrap presents. There are so many ways to make a present special, regardless of its contents. All of the paper designs, ribbons, bows, and tape decals excite my creative side and make me feel like a kid in a candy store! When I give a gift, I want to make sure the wrapping is appealing since the wrapping is the first part of the present the receiver sees.<\/p>\n<p>To me, the wrapping on the present is similar to our semesters. The present is the content, and the wrapping is the delivery of the content.<\/p>\n<p>To help make the semester even more special, I recommend adding a bow! We have spent the last 15 weeks with these students, really building a connection with them. While it is necessary to conclude the course with comprehensive assignments, I believe it is also valuable to conclude with a reflective session of some sort. The final session could be one of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A gratitude session where students share what they\u2019re grateful for in your course.<\/li>\n<li>A storming session that allows students to generate all they have learned this term.<\/li>\n<li>A \u201cwarm-fuzzy\u201d session where students give praise to one another in the class.<\/li>\n<li>A reflective writing freewrite prompt for students to review their work this semester.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Make the course even more memorable by having a session that provides students with the opportunity to see all they have learned and maybe even allow them to see their growth. As you are \u201cwrapping\u201d up the semester, I encourage you to find a way to top off your course with a bow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to wrap presents. There are so many ways to make a present special, regardless of its contents. All of 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-2103","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-xV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","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=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2104,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/2104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}