Tips+on+Facilitating+Discussions

=Facilitating discussion: Dr T’s tips:=

Starting: • Use open-ended questions • Make provocative assertions with invitation to respond • Pose questions and give the audience time to jot down a response • Assert main points (use black/white board)

Inclusion all people in the group leading the inquiry should be involved: • Every person in the group should do one or more of these things: 1. Pose a question 2. Respond to an audience comment 3. Expand on a group member’s statement 4. Call on an audience member to respond or to read jotted notes

Keeping it going (controlling pace) – Things to say. • Now let me see if I’ve got your point • Could you rephrase the point that x just made • Relate that to the …….. • X, what do you think of that • Now where were we before taking up the issue of X • Connect this topics to on-going points of discussion from earlier class periods

Ending: Things to say • Are there further comments • Now what we’ve covered is… • I want to thank everyone for addressing this issue so well • I think we’re ready to move on.