- Guidelines that can help instructors facilitate classroom discussion around controversial issues, such as establishing a clear purpose and ground rules, providing a common base for understanding, handling emotions responses, including everyone, summarizing discussion and gathering student feedback, how to handle issues that involve the instructor’s identity, and being an active facilitator.
- Information adapted from the Center on Research and Learning: http://www.crlt.umich.edu/publinks/generalguidelines
[Guidelines for Planning and Facilitating Discussions on Controversial Topics. (2016). Retrieved June 20, 2016, from http://www.crlt.umich.edu/publinks/generalguidelines]
