{"id":2165,"date":"2017-02-28T15:37:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2017-02-28T15:37:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:37:49","slug":"did-they-read-the-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/did-they-read-the-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Did they read the assignment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monitoring students\u2019 reading can be a challenge because we may not want to make or give a quiz every time they\u2019re supposed to read. &nbsp;Here\u2019s an activity that you can use to check in with students reading.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2168\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TTT-Feb-28-pic-2-e1488317673959-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/p>\n<p>I provided each student with a stack of blank 4&#215;4 post-its.&nbsp; On these post-its, they had to list as many ideas as they could from the previous night\u2019s reading.&nbsp; To up the ante, I told them that the person who had the most post-its (that had accurate information and complete thoughts) would win a prize.&nbsp; Once the ground rules were laid, I set a timer for 3 minutes and let them generate ideas.&nbsp; They were busy writing as many ideas as they could.&nbsp; The timer interrupted them, which meant they had more to write!<\/p>\n<p>Once we declared a winner, I had the students group their post-its at their tables.&nbsp; They were to put like ideas together to create categories for the information they remembered from their reading, and they were supposed to label these new categories.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2167\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TTT-Feb-28-e1488317685934-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">After the students finished putting their post-its into categories, I had them walk around to the other tables and observe that categories and what their peers wrote down.&nbsp; The students noticed that there were quite a few similarities, and I even heard exclamations about ideas they forgot to write.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When all of the students were back in their seats, I was able to talk with them about the chapter and the major concepts that the author was conveying.&nbsp; In addition, we discussed how this strategy allowed them to take time to reflect on what they remembered or thought was most important from the reading.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I will absolutely do this lesson again because (I think) it was a low-stakes, interactive way to check in with students about their reading.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2166 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/TTT-Feb-28-pic-3-e1488317699185-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"176\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monitoring students\u2019 reading can be a challenge because we may not want to make or give a quiz every time they\u2019re supposed [&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-2165","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-yV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","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=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}