Nine Ways to Improve Class Discussions
Having note takers, being more focused and for less time, using the discussions, inviting students to suggest discussion topics, use better hooks to launch discussion, talk less or not at all, end with something definitive, discuss discussions and pause.
Using Class Discussion to Meet Your Teaching Goals
Tips on how to guide discussion, encourage participation, assess learning and what prompts and exercises to use.
[Using Class Discussion to Meet Your Teaching Goals. (2005). Newsletter on Teaching, 15.]
Effective Classroom Discussions – 5 Guidelines
Guidelines for effective discussion, such as: clarify what students mean, give students time, appreciate students’ ideas, accept lack of closure and balanced classroom instruction.
Managing Small Group Discussion
Talking about planning and structuring discussion sessions, how to structure the physical environment, how to take of group dynamics, and what discussion formats there are out there.
Discussion Management: Engagement
Videos and teaching tips on different methods such as using votes and role playing to increase student engagement.
Questions for Discussion Questions
Harvard Business School professor and preeminent teacher C. Roland Christensen considered the art of questioning so important that he once described case method teaching as “the art of asking the right question, of the right student, at the right time—and in the right way.”