James Lang has published excerpts from his most recent book in The Chronicle of Higher Education( June 22,2016). The book Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning . The excerpts are easy to read and describe practical ways to engage your students in learning. I suggest you start with the two most important parts of your lesson the beginning and the end.
Small Changes in Teaching: The First 5 Minutes Before Class	Lang gives a simple yet effective way to engage your learners and improve their writing skills.

Small Changes in Teaching:The Last 5 minutes of Class	Lang refers to the book by Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers in which they introduce the one minute paper.

An academic paper on the ' one minute paper"

A simple and easy way to introduce reflective practice to your learners is the one minute paper."Lecturers who use the ‘one-minute paper’ generally praise it as a learning tool, for the teacher as well as the students. This article surveys the literature on this widely applicable technique and presents new evidence on students’ opinions of it and the extent of its use in the classroom. The benefits for both students and teachers appear sizeable for such a modest amount of time and effort, and students generally perceive the one-minute paper favourably. However, the one-minute paper can be easily employed to excess, reflected in quickly declining response rates over the course of two lecture series. Survey evidence suggests that the one-minute paper is perhaps not used especially extensively in UK and US higher education, largely due to lack of knowledge of its existence and the perception that it would be too time-consuming to analyse the responses"

Stead, D. R. (2005, July). A review of the one-minute paper. Active Learning in Higher Education, 6(2), 118-131. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1469787405054237

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