PDF Guidebook for Student-Centered Classroom Discussions

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Guidebook for Student-Centered Classroom Discussions

4/1/08

Jack Byrd, Jr.

Author

Suzanne Goodney Lea

Editor

Copyright ? 2008 Interactivity Foundation. All rights reserved.

Guidebook for Student-Centered Classroom Discussions

First Edition

By Jack Byrd, Jr. Edited by Suzanne Goodney Lea

Copyright ? 2008 Interactivity Foundation. All rights reserved.

Published by the Interactivity Foundation

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Guidebook for Student Centered Classroom Discussions

Preface

Student discussion has been a teaching strategy from the beginning of the concept of education. In most cases, student discussion has the teacher as the facilitator of the discussion. The teacher asks questions, challenges responses, provides authoritative comments, and manages the discussion.

This guidebook offers suggestions for the use of a student-centered discussion process. In this approach, the teacher is an observer and an evaluator of the discussion rather than being the central figure in the discussion.

The teaching approach presented here has been tested in a number of classrooms. In the summer of 2006, the Interactivity Foundation sponsored a Summer Institute for faculty who were interested in a new approach to their teaching. Then in the spring and summer of 2007, the 10 participants in the Summer Institute used the student-centered discussion approach in at least one course they were teaching. Much of the content of this guidebook has been shaped by the experiences of these faculty experiences.

The Guidebook is divided into a series of short sections which describe how the student- centered approach can be used. The sections go from the overall course design to specific detail on course operations.

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