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.