First two minutes 3 2014

The First TWO Minutes of

your Class

Candida Brush Franklin W. Olin Chair- Babson College

March 14, 2014 Manizales Mas

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Objectives

• To heighten understanding of class openings

• To raise awareness of how to use class opening to set the culture and foreshadow course content

• To practice class openings

• To learn tips for getting off to a great start



Introduction Debrief

• ACTION

– Music

– Shake hands

– Objectives

– Movement & where I stood

– Hook

• INTENDED EFFECT

– Mood and sensory engagement

– Accessible/personal interest

– Plan for session

– Listening & focus

– Connection to topic



Your First Impressions?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy1pcW9mvNo – (marketing, UNC)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wixYxB6Evlg – (small business, UNLV)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgWNQVdhE9A – (stanford- chemical engineering)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7XiE_V0PZ8 – (berkley- Starcraft)

• http://nursingschoolsinmaryland.blogspot.com/2012/05/2009-schlotfeldt-lecture-doctor-of.html – (nursing)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R619nwMC9GQ – (tv clip)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy1pcW9mvNo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wixYxB6Evlg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgWNQVdhE9A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7XiE_V0PZ8

http://nursingschoolsinmaryland.blogspot.com/2012/05/2009-schlotfeldt-lecture-doctor-of.html









http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R619nwMC9GQ


Statistics

• 7-20 seconds to create first impression

• 93% is based on non-verbal communication (sitting, standing, eye contact, crossing arms, handshakes)

• 55% has to do with physical aspects (clothing, dress)

• You can increase positive first impression by 36% when you use people’s names

• Appealing tone of voice (focused, relaxed, enthusiastic) can increase positive first impression by 38%



Class Exercise

In groups, create an introduction to a class you have taught or would like to teach. Imagine the first few minutes of that class.

• Decide what the class is, audience, topic

• Prepare the “opening” for this class

• You have 15 minutes to think about this, then present the opening

• Be prepared to explain your objectives for this session



Key Considerations

1. Preparation

2. Your goals

3. The “hook”

4. Instructor behavior

5. Student reactions

6. Learning community



1. Preparation

• Physical environment

• Use of minutes before class

• Flow and plan for session

• Audience assessment

• Your tendencies and barriers

• Objectives & lessons for session



2. Your Goals

• Establish authority? Gain credibility?

• Create safe space to talk/share?

• Let your antennae pick up student perceptions and anticipations?

• Manage expectations?

• Create dynamic and debate? Entertain?

• Engage students personally?



3. The Hook

• Motivates interest

• Engages the class in the substance of the class

• Is related to the central theme or lesson of the class

• What is the expected effect? Unexpected effect?

• Examples:

– Video, story, quiz, exercise, surprise, joke, prop, role play, dilemma, music, game, pictures, quote, prototype, statistics, question



4. Instructor Behavior

Oral Communication

• Lecture or facilitate discussion?

• Receptiveness to student engagement?

• Pacing- fast/slow? – use of pauses?

• Loud or soft?

• Tone?

• Listening?



4. Instructor Behavior

Body Language

• Eye contact?

• Sit or stand?

• Move around stay still?

• Use of things- board, computer, flip charts, handouts, music, video, props?

• Use of hands- hips? Pockets?

• Dress and clothing?



5. Student Reactions

• Peer reactions & response to comments?

• Emotion?

• Attentiveness?

• Eye contact, body language?

• Classroom management?

• Governance- who sets the agenda?



6. Creating a Learning

Community

• What is the spirit of the community?

• Are there trustworthy boundaries for appropriate behavior?

• Are students interested in each other and their points of view?

• Civility and courtesy?

• Personality of the class– what is it?



Teaching is like dropping ideas into the letterbox of the human unconscious. You know when they are posted, but you never know when they will be received or in what form.

» - Amy Lowell, in Christensen, R.C.


