Getting to know you: First impressions and first classes

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Getting to know you First impressions and first
classes

• Cendri Hutcherson
• January 8, 2007

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Establishing your goals
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Goals for a course/section

• Where do you want the students to end up at the
  end of the course?
• What do you want them to know?
• What do you want them to know how to do?
• Lecture or discussion?
• Facts or critical thinking?

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Goals for a course/section

• What kind of a relationship do you want with your
  students?
• Authority or approachability?
• Fun or serious?
• Professional or personal?

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Goals for a first day

• Not to fall flat on my face
• Not to scare everyone away
• Not to bore everyone to death

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Goals for a first day Tip Think positive and
proactively

• Personal Introductions
• What do you want to know about your students?
• What do you want your students to know about you?
• What do you want your students to know about each
  other?

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What do you want to know about your students?

• Their name
• Year in school
• Where theyre from
• Why theyre taking the course
• What their interests and hobbies are
• What they personally hope to get from the course

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What do you want your students to know about you?

• Your name
• Where youre from
• How you are like them
• Your role in the course
• Why youre teaching the course
• Why you think the course is amazingly important!!

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What do you want your students to know about each
other?

• Name
• Where theyre from
• Where they live in the dorms
• More details!

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Goals for a first day Tip Think positive and
proactively

• Course Material Introductions
• How much overview do you want to give of the
  course?
• What kind of administrative information do you
  want your students to know?
• How much do you want your students to shape what
  you teach?

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Miscellaneous Tips

• Visit the classroom ahead of time
• Modules its all in the timing
• Prep work
• Pre-class plans
• The 5-minute cushion at the end
• Doing your homework

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Miscellaneous (Shameful) Tips

• Cheating with Facebook
• Abject plagiarism
• Using a camera
• Pretending Im spontaneous
• Giving myself a break

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Activities and Demonstrations
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Funny introductions

• Two truths and a lie
• Variant one student lies
• The guessing game
• Whats your sign?
• What superpower?
• Favorite movie
• Things to Avoid!
• Most embarassing moment
• SAT scores
• Weirdest scar

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Fun activities

• Vote with your feet
• Pop quiz!
• What is
• A Great Debate
• Breaking Headlines!
• Design an experiment
• Demonstrations from psychology
• Cognitive psychology
• Personality psychology
• Social psychology
• Developmental psychology

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