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“The Dreaded Discussion: Ten Ways to Start”

The Wabash Center

Author
Frederick, Peter J.
Publisher
College Teaching 29, no. 3 (1981): 109-114
Techniques for initiating good discussion in class include: examining goals and values, noting concrete images in text, generating questions among students, finding illustrative quotations, small group discussion, generating truth statements, forced debates, role playing, non-structured scene-setting, and eliciting opinoins of the text.