{"id":231,"date":"2012-05-22T09:44:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T16:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/educatingamerica\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2012-05-22T09:44:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T16:44:52","slug":"timing-a-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2012\/05\/22\/timing-a-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Timing a Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy for the time in a group to appear to evaporate. Just as you<em> finally<\/em> get to the lesson\/activity, your time ends.\u00a0 There are ways to prevent that. Mostly it&#8217;s planning and sticking to your time limits.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s assume you have all your materials gathered, you know your lesson\/activity, and that you know how to keep your group focused. Look at your total allotment of time. In a 40 minute session these ideas will\u00a0 take out 14-18 minutes. For really short work sessions, cut down the time you spend on each part.<\/p>\n<p>introduce the lesson: <strong>5 minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After 5 minutes of work, stop and do a check-up: <strong>2 minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the work session ends, give a five minute warning:<strong> 1 minute<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clean-up: <strong>3-5 minutes <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Closure: <strong>3-5 minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It sounds like a lot of time is being taken away from the task, but each IS part of making the task work. Each gives the students structure, clues and develops their\u00a0responsibility<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy for the time in a group to appear to evaporate. Just as you finally get to the lesson\/activity, your time ends.\u00a0 There are ways to prevent that. Mostly it&#8217;s planning and sticking to your time limits.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s assume you have all your materials gathered, you know your lesson\/activity, and that you know how\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2012\/05\/22\/timing-a-group\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}