{"id":1162,"date":"2016-01-18T07:43:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T15:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2016-01-18T07:43:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T15:43:53","slug":"rhythm-in-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2016\/01\/18\/rhythm-in-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhythm in Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Faculty Focus piece published today by Linda Shadiow and Maryellen Weimar called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/articles\/philosophy-of-teaching\/the-rhythms-of-the-semester-implications-for-practice-persona\/\">The Rhythms of the Semester<\/a>&#8221; highlights ways professors can help students negotiate &#8220;the arc&#8221; of the\u00a0course.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The early weeks hold promise and high hopes, both often curtailed when the first assignments are graded. The final weeks find us somewhere between being reluctant or relieved to see a class move on. There is an inexplicable but evident interaction between our teaching persona and the persona a class develops throughout a semester.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good discussion. The authors advise<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calling attention to the structure of the semester<\/li>\n<li>Developing a community in the opening weeks<\/li>\n<li>Revitalizing the class during mis-semester doldrums (inviting a guest speaker, for instance, or &#8220;using an unusual resource&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Achieving closure in the final weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The creative ferment a classroom can bring into being &#8211; educator and students together &#8211; is a most wonderful thing, and can go on beyond semester&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Faculty Focus piece published today by Linda Shadiow and Maryellen Weimar called &#8220;The Rhythms of the Semester&#8221; highlights ways professors can help students negotiate &#8220;the arc&#8221; of the\u00a0course. The early weeks hold promise and high hopes, both often curtailed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2016\/01\/18\/rhythm-in-class\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[42,97],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-for-educators","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}