{"id":2511,"date":"2018-04-03T12:27:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T18:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=2511"},"modified":"2018-04-05T17:33:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T23:33:30","slug":"flexibility-to-give-up-or-go-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/flexibility-to-give-up-or-go-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Flexibility: to give up or go forward?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was teaching class yesterday, and I assumed the students would all have their assignments finished and completed. &nbsp;Well, that expectation did not turn out the way in which I was hoping. Instead of getting mad at them, I decided to give them 7 minutes to get to work , especially since my entire lesson was riding on them having their work. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once they had some time to pull it together, we had a moment where we discussed what happened. &nbsp;Since I teach an Integrated Learning Community in which students, specifically freshmen, are supposed to learn the expectations of college, I decided to take some class time to have a teachable moment. &nbsp;&nbsp;We discussed time management strategies and methods to structure their assignments. We also brainstormed ways they can support themselves and one another. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This experience taught me that I could have become frustrated with my students and canceled class, which wouldn\u2019t have helped anyone, or I could be flexible and make the most of the moment. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/ee\/25\/7e\/ee257e97dd56004f464ec2c17c574d11.jpg\" width=\"487\" height=\"375\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was teaching class yesterday, and I assumed the students would all have their assignments finished and completed. &nbsp;Well, that expectation did [&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-2511","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-Ev","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511","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=2511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions\/2518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}