CIQ procedure

Here's a sample procedure to discuss:

(1) We each distribute the CIQ during the final 10 minutes of the final class of the week.
--> For me this would be Thursday of my T/Th class.
--> Question: Do we want to make this the final 10 minutes, or do we want to make it something like 15 and reserve the final 5 minutes for closing announcements or some such--the idea being to insert some sort of closing ritual after the CIQ and thereby make it less likely that the CIQ will be the exit door to class.

Perhaps it's as simple as saying something like: To try to ensure that I don't shortchange the CIQ time and we don't have to rush through it, I'll try to stop fifteen minutes before the end of the class, hand out the forms, we'll all write, and then we'll do final announcements in the last three to five minutes of class.


(2) Before distributing the CIQ we ask the students to recollect, aloud, what we did this week.

I had gone to the reminder method because I see it as pedagogically helpful on some level. To be reminded is to move out of the present moment. Otherwise we do get too many responses about the current class (which will continue to happen to a certain extent, anyway). However, I have done both the oral reminder and, in the last class, I just had a list of items up on the computer. You're right that, to a degree, the reminding creates the categories in their minds, categories of activities, anyway, and if we type it as i did last week, our language is likely to dictate, so I think I'm inclined away from that method. This is complicated because we want to study their language for this first study, so I think if we do have reminders, they should come from the students.

I think we should do the oral reminder method, asking students to recollect aloud.