ENGAGING LECTURE TIP 48Wait Time
Research demonstrates that when a teacher poses a question in a typical college class session, he or she typically waits for less than one second before calling on someone. There are significant challenges to this practice. In particular, any responses you get cannot be very well thought out. In addition, you are likely to get the same students responding over and over—those who think fast or those who are extroverted enough to be comfortable with thinking on the fly. Moreover, this practice can promote inequities in the classroom because male students—particularly white male students—tend to speak in response more than female or minority students (Mintz, n.d.).
Increasing the Wait Time, a concept created ...
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