[B-Greek] Class Frequency
Kevin W. Woodruff
cierpke at prodigy.net
Mon Apr 16 09:18:04 EDT 2007
Ken:
I previously had 4 hours a semester which I taught Introductory New Testament Greek which I used Monday Wednesday, and Friday for 1 and 20 minutes. We were able to successful cover all ov Mounce in one semester with good retention by all. This year the decision was made to reduce it to a 3 hour course, so I was lucky to get it to Monday Wednes, Friday for 50 minutes. My Dean wanted to change it to a Tuesday-Thursday class and make it 75 minutes class, but was overruled by a schedule conflict. I owuld definitely recommend the MWF 50 minute class. Make sure that you intersperse review days throughout the semester to help reinforce and review what has been covered
Kevin
Prof. Kevin W. Woodruff, M.Div., M.S.I.S.
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----- Original Message ----
From: Ken Penner <ken.penner at acadiau.ca>
To: greek B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 9:03:56 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] Class Frequency
Dear B-Greekers,
How many times a week should an Introductory New Testament Greek class meet?
My own sense (based on some research I did 12 years ago) is that meeting three times a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) for 50 minutes is preferable to meeting twice a week for 75 minutes, or once a week for 150 minutes, so that students have a chance to assimilate what they have learned before moving on. Therefore this is what I recommended to our academic dean. Today that recommendation was questioned, so I thought I'd seek the experience of others on this question. The textbook used in this case will probably be Mounce's. (I don't want to get into the question of inductive/immersion methods; I can't change that for next year.) Might it take too long to settle the class in a 50-minute session, or are there other drawbacks I might not have considered?
Ken
Ken M. Penner, Ph.D.
Acadia/Greek&Hebrew
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