Just-in-Time Teaching
FIE, October 2005


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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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