{"id":11568,"date":"2016-08-03T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/?p=11568"},"modified":"2016-08-03T14:39:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T21:39:46","slug":"11568","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2016\/08\/03\/11568\/","title":{"rendered":"the first day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1402544484_69f72ce47f_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1402544484_69f72ce47f_o-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"old-fashioned classroom with rows of wooden chairs\" width=\"346\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1402544484_69f72ce47f_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1402544484_69f72ce47f_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1402544484_69f72ce47f_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1402544484_69f72ce47f_o-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/a>Back when I was a student, I hated the first day of classes (aka Read the Syllabus Day).\u00a0 One semester I rather snarkily informed each of my professors how much I&#8217;d paid for their class that day, and that I didn&#8217;t feel as though I was getting my money&#8217;s worth when the day consisted of having the prof read the syllabus to me (especially because I had already rather-thoroughly perused the syllabus myself beforehand).<\/p>\n<p>So this article about <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclevitae.com\/news\/1498-the-absolute-worst-way-to-start-the-semester\" target=\"_blank\">alternative First Day of Class activities<\/a> struck a chord with me.<\/p>\n<p>What I intend to do this year, which I am hoping will go over well, is to have students learn from my previous years&#8217; students on the first day of class.\u00a0 At the end of last semester, I had <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/academics\/2013\/04\/26\/epistolary-evaluations-from-students\/\" target=\"_blank\">each student write a letter &#8220;To a Future Student&#8221;<\/a> in the class, and I will pass these out and have the students read them and discuss them as a class, which I will then use to launch into a discussion about class norms, expectations, and policies.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll then use that to lead into a brief overview of the class which will cover many of the items in the syllabus.<\/p>\n<p>(Note: this post also appeared on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/academics\/2016\/08\/03\/the-first-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chapman University Blogs network<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I was a student, I hated the first day of classes (aka Read the Syllabus Day).\u00a0 One semester I rather snarkily informed each of my professors how much I&#8217;d paid for their class that day, and that I didn&#8217;t feel as though I was getting my money&#8217;s worth when the day consisted of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[186,337,335,336],"class_list":["post-11568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","tag-chapman","tag-chapmanu","tag-first-day","tag-university"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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