	Just-in-Time Teaching Ball State University Dept. of Physics October 23, 2003

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1.

What do you think the phrase "Just-in-Time Teaching" means?

2.

List the three factors that you believe are most important to students' success in college.

3.

What do you do to elicit student-teacher dialog in class? Do these work as well as you hope?

4.

In each row below, select the word from columns 2-5 that is the best synonym for the word in column 1.
No dictionaries please!

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Accommodation	Suggestion	Location	Relationship	Adjustment
Salient	Truthful	Prominent	Similar	Related
Palliate	Moderate	Heal	Replace	Increase
Cohesiveness	Similarity	Heaviness	Cooperation	Unity
Collateral	Unnecessary	Concomitant	Extraneous	Excessive
Immanent	Dissimilar	Inherent	Important	Huge
Nadir	Apex	Enemy	Chieftain	Low point
Recondite	Innumerable	Apologetic	Concealed	Insufferable
Intrinsic	Actual	Harmful	Internal	Implicit
Legate	Teacher	Emissary	Judge	Counselor
Ostensible	Bony	Actual	Showy	Apparent
Predicate	Affirm	Follow	Replace	Precede

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