Hi Noam, This is a common issue. Many of us use "sponge activities" to sponge up the extra time while the other teams finish the tRAT. I teach anatomy, so I have the teams start anatomy labeling games online or on worksheets during this time, and then we move on to the applications when everyone is done. It's also a good time to check in with teams (the ones that are done) and get to know the individuals in them a bit better. It's also possible to move the appeals process outside of class time, if that ends up being the part that takes up a lot of time. Sarah Leupen On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:00 AM, TEAMLEARNING-L automatic digest system < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > There is 1 message totalling 30 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. idle time during RAPs > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:45:06 -0700 > From: Noam Perry <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: idle time during RAPs > > This semester is my first attempt at TBL, and I just had my first RAP > with my class, Human Rights and Justice. It went great, and I am > looking forward to see how this semester progresses. > One thing that I noticed was that some teams were a lot faster than > the other. The fastest team completed the tRAT first, and had nothing > to appeal because they got everything right (it was very easy). The > slowest team took the longest time taking the tRAT, and then had a lot > it could potentially appeal. So the fastest teams had some 15 minutes > of waiting time while other teams were doing appeals. Since it was the > first RAP I encouraged them to use this time to get to know each other > better, but I was wondering if anyone has something productive the > fastest teams can do in this time. > Thanks, > Noam > ---------------------------------------------- > Noam Perry > Lecturer > Department of Justice Studies > San Jose State University > One Washington Square > San Jose, CA 95192 > > ------------------------------ > > End of TEAMLEARNING-L Digest - 28 Aug 2012 to 29 Aug 2012 (#2012-126) > ********************************************************************* >