In case anyone is interested in using (or revising and using) either of the 2 evaluation forms that appear on pages 100-104 of the Guidebook for Student-Centered Classroom Discussions, I’ve attached the 2 forms in Microsoft Word (both in 2008… Read More »
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Evaluation Rubrics (forms) for Student Facilitators and Group
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Good Nervous
My IF course makes me nervous. Not flop-sweat nervous like when I tried to teach Song of Myself without having even glanced at it for several years, but the kind of nervous that’s good for someone who’s been teaching at… Read More »
Setting up student groups
I have been doing a lot of thinking about how to set up student groups since I have watched the enrollment in the class I will be teaching starting next week grow from 7 to almost 50 students in the… Read More »
First Two Weeks and Student Groups
Last night was our second meeting (and only the second week of classes) of “The Good Society,” the topic of the course. Since we only meet once per week (for three hours), I’ve not yet moved very far into organizing… Read More »
Setting Groups in Motion
I am teaching a course on how globalization is changing San Francisco, and am having students collaboratively develop policy proposals for the city by using IF Discussion techniques. They will develop ideas about policy alternatives, research different facts about changing… Read More »
Why Contrasting Possibilities?
So much of what goes on under the name of political discussion is aimed at persuading people to accept certain public policies. And so much of what goes on in facilitated public policy discussions is aimed at bringing a group… Read More »
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Making the Town Hall Work
The “ambush” of US Congressional representatives over the summer of 2009 by the foes of national health care reform did little to endear expanded citizen participation to those who bore the brunt of bullying and disruption at so-called “town hall”… Read More »
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How are you setting up your student discussion groups?
For those of you teaching an IF sponsored course this spring (2010), we’d like you to post blog entries at least 4 times during the semester in which you reflect upon and share some of your course experiences. We hope… Read More »
Seeing Ourselves From the Outside
One of the things that a discussion can sometimes do is to help us to see ourselves from the outside. This happened at a recent citizen panel meeting that I facilitated on ‘What are some of the different dimensions of… Read More »
Embedding Deliberation in Professional Practice
It almost goes without saying that many professionals could be more helpful to the cause of citizen discussion. Educators, lawyers, social workers, communicators, planners, and administrators throughout the profit, non-profit, and public sectors could all make positive contributions to discussions… Read More »
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