Creating engaging discussions : strategies for "avoiding crickets" in any size classroom and online / edited by Jennifer H. Herman and Linda B. Nilson ; foreword by Stephen D. Brookfield.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index.
Contents:
The strengths and challenges of discussion -- Getting all students engaged -- Preventing and responding to common discussion pitfalls -- Connecting discussion with learning -- Gauging the effectiveness of a discussion -- Learning and interpreting history through deliberative dialogue / Mary Jo Festle -- How co-teaching and other strategies promote lively student engagement / Matthea Marquart and Mary Ann Drury -- Got introverts? : get CAE (collaborative autoethnography) / Mary Shapiro -- Using a contemplative pedagogy to promote discussion in a first year seminar / Jennifer W. Shewmaker -- Avoiding crickets by creating an orchestra of students / Billy Strean -- Spicing up students' education : the use of course-based undergraduate research to foster student communication / Heather Townsend -- Applying students' insights for engaging inquiry in a blended course / Janelle DeCarrico Voegele -- Solve several online course challenges with student critiques of primary literature / David M. Wilson -- Faculty discussion group resources.
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