{"id":318,"date":"2022-08-09T11:34:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/equity-and-english-101\/?p=318"},"modified":"2022-08-09T11:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:34:25","slug":"how-to-create-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/equity-and-english-101\/2022\/08\/09\/how-to-create-community\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Create Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/college\/icebreaker-questions-college-students.cfm\">Check-In Questions<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check-in questions have helped me learn student names and I\u2019ve also received feedback from students who\u2019ve said that it has made them feel like I\u2019ve wanted to get to know who they are. It\u2019s a low-stakes way to start dialogue in the classroom to get them comfortable with speaking to each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Small-Group Or Pairs Work At Least Once a Class<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At one point in the class, the students are talking to each other. It wakes them up, for one thing, but it helps them to get to know each other and I don\u2019t mind them digressing once they\u2019ve tackled the questions I\u2019ve assigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Let Them Be Experts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They know more than you about a lot of things. Every now and then they take the lead and teach me. Every year there\u2019s a new slang term that makes me looketh the fool and every year the students enjoy trying to get me learn how to use it. Or it\u2019s letting them compare and contrast the dialects of Puerto Rican and Dominican Spanish after we\u2019ve read Gloria Anzald\u00faa\u2019s \u201cHow to Tame a Wild Tongue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check-In Questions Check-in questions have helped me learn student names and I\u2019ve also received feedback from students who\u2019ve said that it has made them feel like I\u2019ve wanted to get to know who they are. It\u2019s a low-stakes way to start dialogue in the classroom to get them comfortable with speaking to each other. Small-Group &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/equity-and-english-101\/2022\/08\/09\/how-to-create-community\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Create Community<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creating-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/equity-and-english-101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/equity-and-english-101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/equity-and-english-101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/equity-and-english-101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/equity-and-english-101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/equity-and-english-101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/equity-and-english-101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/equity-and-english-101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/equity-and-english-101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/equity-and-english-101\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}