Sharing Classrooms

Sharing Classroom Space

Garry Walton of Meredith College, Raleigh, No. Car., offered these suggestions in "Forget Teaching, Remember Learning," Issues and Inquiry in College Teaching and Learning 16.3 (Spring/Summer 1993):11-18.*

To share the classroom space,

	sit with students
	stand in the back of the room
	sit outside of a circle of discussants
	make an individual student responsible for previewing the day's lesson at the beginning of class
	stop class a few minutes early to have students write the gist of what they learned [sometimes called the one-minute paper] or a question they still have. [Variation: have students list the clearest point from a lesson and the "muddiest" point.]

First printed in Teaching Network News 3.7 [April] 1995:2.

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