We split the year into two different practices around Time.
We split the year into two different practices around Time.
Embedded Files
🍃 Spring Focus → Power of the Pause
🍂 Fall Focus → Estimating Time
If you haven't done so, please watch the intro video → What is +1 Pedagogy?
If you haven't done so, please watch the intro video → What is +1 Pedagogy?
🍃 SPRING FOCUS → Power of the Pause
🍃 SPRING FOCUS → Power of the Pause
◾ In Action: Patience as a Pedagogy
◾ In Action: Patience as a Pedagogy
Below are two videos from Harvard Graduate School of Education on Wait Time. If you'd like to learn more, click the title below the video to navigate to their website where you will also see classroom considerations, relevant research and related resources on each topic.
View in a new tab - Waiting for Student Responses
View in a new tab - Providing wait-time for students to process and gain confidence
◾ Resources
◾ Resources
Fundamental Skill Sheet Wait-Time What Is It? (n.d.). Vanderbilt IRIS Center
Giving students enough space and time to reflect. (2016). Harvard.edu.
Häusler, J., Gartmeier, M., Grünewald, M. G., Hapfelmeier, A., Pfurtscheller, T., Seidel, T., & Pascal Oliver Berberat. (2024). Too much time or not enough? An observational study of teacher wait time after questions in case-based seminars. BMC Medical Education, 24(1).
Providing wait-time for students to process and gain confidence. (2016). Harvard.edu.
Sullivan, J. (2019, October 28). Increase Student Learning in Only 3 Seconds. Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.
Waiting for student responses. (2015). Harvard.edu.
Wait Time: Making Space for Authentic Learning | Kent State University. (2019). Kent.edu.
🍂 FALL FOCUS → Estimating Time
🍂 FALL FOCUS → Estimating Time
◾ How to estimate...
◾ How to estimate...
#1 → No Technology
#1 → No Technology
Research varies, but generally, the average adult reads 200-250 words in one minute. You can use this information to calculate the estimated time to read.
Here’s how:
Find your total word count. Let’s say it’s 938 words.
Divide your total word count by 200. You’ll get a decimal number, in this case, 4.69.
The first part of your decimal number is your minute. In this case, it’s 4.
Take the second part — the decimal points — round up that number to make things simpler for your reader. That would make your 938-word article a 5-minute read.
#2 → No Technology
#2 → No Technology
Time yourself reading the item
Multiply that time by 1.5 or 2.
That is your estimated reading time for a student
#3 → With Technology
#3 → With Technology
Use a website that helps you estimate reading time.
Read-O-Meter → copy/paste in reading and it will estimate time. Also gives a word count if you want to pair that with option #1.
Convert words to time → Give the number of words, estimate the reading speed, convert to time.
ReadTime → If you want to test your own reading speed, this site will help you by copy/paste in text, use the built in stopwatch, adjust your speed if needed. Use this information to help calculate estimated reading time for students as seen in option #2.
◾ Communicating the estimate...
◾ Communicating the estimate...
#1 → In Your Syllabus
#1 → In Your Syllabus
You can simply add the estimated time as a number or range of numbers to the end of the reading title, as seen here.
#2 → In Canvas
#2 → In Canvas
If you prefer to add your readings to a Canvas page, assignment, discussion, or quiz you can type the estimated reading time after it's mentioned. Another option is to add a 'pill'. This gives more of a design element using the embed option.
copy the HTML code and change the time
How to embed<ul class="pill">
<li>Estimated Reading Time</li>
<li>6 minutes</li>
</ul>
If you prefer to add your readings to the modules via a link to an outside source or as a file, you can type the estimated reading time after the title of the item.
◾ Keep in mind while estimating...
◾ Keep in mind while estimating...
It’s an estimate.
It’s ok to adjust.
Be transparent with students and ask them if it’s an accurate estimate.
You don’t have to estimate everything.
It depends on the difficulty of the reading.
It depends on what you want your students to get out of the reading.
◾ Assessing +1: Estimating Time
◾ Assessing +1: Estimating Time
Assessment of this +1 has a two pronged approach.
Assessment of this +1 has a two pronged approach.
First, we'd like to know if and how you implemented it.
If you did use time estimates, you can assess--and share with us--how students received them.
2. Student Assessment
2. Student Assessment
How you assess your students is totally up to you. We have suggested some simple questions you could ask via notecards, paper, Canvas, Google Forms, etc.
We would be so grateful if you shared student responses with us! Any and all information will help us plan for future +1s.
Sample Questions
Sample Questions
Have you noticed time estimates in this course?
Have you found them helpful?
Do the estimates feel too high, too low, just right?
Other comments on time estimates in this course?
To save you time, we have a Google Form with these questions ready to go. Modify as needed.
To save you time, we have a Google Form with these questions ready to go. Modify as needed.
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