Discussion Strategies
Best Practices
- The Dreaded Discussion: Ten Ways to Start, Peter Frederick. Ideas to start discussions in a quiet classroom and involve different groups of students.
- Effective Classroom Discussions, William E. Cashin, Kansas State University, IDEA Paper #49.
- Literature Discussion Strategies, Kathy G. Short, California State University, Northridge. Ways to start discussions through novels - could potentially work with narrative texts.
- Managing Difficult Classroom Discussions, Indiana University of Bloomington
- Incorporating Discussion in Large Classes, Georgia Tech
- Discussions, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, Indiana University Bloomington
Planning
- The Extraordinary Teaching Project: Individualized Learning in a Large Class, University of Iowa. Engaging students in large classes.
- Community Building in Classroom, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Columbia. Why build community in the classroom, and three strategies/activities for building community.
- Norms of Collaboration: Annotated, Center for Adaptive Schools. Expansion on the norms of group work, which naturally expands into group discussions.
- Teaching with Discussions, The Teaching Center, Washington University in St. Louis. Covers getting started, what to do during the discussion, and afterwards. Has additional resources.