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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480354403321

Autore

Hale Michael S.

Titolo

The teacher's guide to leading student-centered discussions : talking about texts in the classroom / / Michael S. Hale, Elizabeth A. City

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-4833-6344-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 p.)

Disciplina

371.37

Soggetti

Active learning

Student-centered learning

Discussion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Authors""; ""Part I - Getting Started: The Science of Leading Discussions""; ""Chapter 1 - The Fundamentals of Facilitating""; ""Why Have Student-Centered Discussions?""; ""Essential Ingredients of a Student-Centered, Text-Based Discussion, Aka Seminar""; ""Text""; ""Questions""; ""Participants""; ""Facilitator""; ""The Architecture of a Seminar""; ""Pre-Seminar""; ""Seminar""; ""Post-Seminar""; ""Frequently Asked Questions and Tips for Beginners""; ""Frequently Asked Questions""; ""Tips for Beginners""; ""References""

""Part II - Becoming a Skillful Facilitator: The Art and Magic of Leading Student-Centered Discussions""""Chapter 2 - Safety""; ""Recognizing Safety Issues""; ""Tone of the Discussion""; ""Atmosphere of Safety and Respect""; ""Creating a Culture of Inquiry""; ""The Danger of Sarcasm""; ""Feedback During a Seminar""; ""A Climate of Respect""; ""Chapter 3 - Authentic Participation""; ""Recognizing Authentic Participation Issues""; ""Attention-Seeking Participation""; ""Text-Focused Participation""; ""Reflective Activity""; ""Assessing Pauses in Conversation""; ""Facilitator is Not the Focus""

""Chapter 4 - Challenge""""Recognizing Challenge Issues""; ""Assessing



Understanding""; ""Off-Topic Conversation""; ""Repetitive Ideas and Statements""; ""Idea-Hopping""; ""Challenging Ideas""; ""Chapter 5 - Ownership""; ""Recognizing Ownership Issues""; ""Avoiding Anarchy""; ""Facilitator Releasing Control""; ""Student-Driven Discussions""; ""Chapter 6 - The Facilitator Decision-Making Model""; ""Steps of the Decision-Making Process""; ""Identifying the Issue""; ""Identifying Possible Causes""; ""Matching to Primary Fulcrum""; ""Identifying and Applying Possible Strategies""

""Determining Effectiveness of Strategy and Next Steps""""Part III - Improving Student-Centered Discussions""; ""Chapter 7 - Strategies for Ongoing Improvement Across all the Fulcrums""; ""Reflection""; ""Seminar Mapping""; ""Teaching the Fulcrums to Students""; ""Fishbowl""; ""Tasks""; ""Seminar Folders""; ""Videotape""; ""Assessment""; ""Peer Planning""; ""Peer Coaching""; ""Case Study""; ""Chapter 8 - Strategies for Improving Specific Fulcrums""; ""Safety Issues: Attacking Personalities""; ""Seminar Ground Rules""; ""Assigned Seats""; ""Yellow Card, Red Card""; ""Ejection""; ""Time-Out""

""Write before You Talk""""Role-Play""; ""Stop and Try Again""; ""Safety Issues: Tiptoeing""; ""Building Safety Outside the Seminar""; ""Role-Play""; ""Have Seminars More Frequently""; ""Ask the Students""; ""Authentic Participation Issues: Nonparticipation""; ""Heads-up Questions""; ""Pair-Share""; ""Round-Robin""; ""Inviting Quiet People to Speak""; ""Reflective Writing""; ""Follow-up Writing""; ""Positive Reinforcement""; ""Authentic Participation Issues: Superficial Participation""; ""Connections""; ""Question Again""; ""Pair-Share/Write during Seminar""; ""Silence""; ""Map Connections""

""Challenge Issues: Popcorn""

Sommario/riassunto

Engage and enlighten students by skillfully guiding them through thought-provoking classroom discussions using these straightforward strategies.