{"id":419,"date":"2015-10-22T16:47:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/?p=419"},"modified":"2019-09-10T13:58:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T19:58:28","slug":"sip-2-10-just-in-time-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/sips\/sip-2-10-just-in-time-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"SIP 2.10: Just in Time Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Woman<\/a>Thirsty for Strong Instructional Practice?<\/h2>\n

If you ask instructors what their students could do to help their learning, many will lament that \u201cstudents don\u2019t prepare for class time.\u201d Indeed there is a consistent (and long) record of studies showing that less than a third of students adequately prepare for class. In a fairly broad survey, significant fractions of students (from 9% to 69%) admit that they sometimes <\/span>don\u2019t even obtain<\/span><\/i> the required textbook (references at the bottom).<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other side of the preparation coin, instructors usually have no effective way to prepare for time with their <\/span>current<\/span> group students. Instructors may have a \u201cgeneric\u201d plan for what the next class meeting will entail, but they usually don\u2019t walk into class already knowing what their students think about a new topic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Take a SIP of this: Just-in-Time Teaching<\/h2>\n

Just-in-Time Teaching is an evidence-based technique that gives both students and instructors a fairly different role in preparing for class, which also allows class time to spent on active-engagement, enhancing learning even further.<\/span><\/p>\n

Students are engaged with pre-class \u201cWarmUps\u201d in which they apply the material they have read about (or watched in a video). Instructors get to process the WarmUp responses prior to class, allowing them to customize class time and bring in student voices in a powerful way.<\/span><\/p>\n

WarmUps are a type of <\/span>formative assessment<\/span><\/a> with low-stakes, engaging questions. Students have to engage with the questions, but don\u2019t have to demonstrate mastery (yet), allowing them to move away from \u201canswer-getting\u201d to \u201csense-making\u201d in their first interactions with new concepts and content.<\/span><\/p>\n

Real examples of WarmUp questions (from courses around our campus):<\/span><\/p>\n