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Strategies for Reporting Small-Group Discussions to the Class.

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Brookfield, Stephen D.; Preskill, Stephen – College Teaching, 1999

Suggests five activities for the college classroom to stimulate discussion when students report results of small- group discussions to the class as a whole. The activities "newsprint dialogue," rotating small-group stations, "snowballing,""cocktail party," and "jigsaw" stress maximum student participation, interaction, and intellectual engagement.…

Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Group Discussion, Higher Education

Discussion as a Way of Teaching. Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms. The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.

Brookfield, Stephen D.; Preskill, Stephen – 1999

This book offers a variety of practical ideas, tools, and techniques for creating democratic classrooms. It suggests exercises to get discussion started, strategies for maintaining its momentum, ways to elicit a diversity of views and voices, ideas for creative groupings and formats, and processes to encourage student participation. In exploring…

Descriptors: Democracy, Democratic Values, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Diversity (Student)