As we approach the fall semester, one thing everyone who is returning to in-person teaching should be thinking about is how they will run discussions. Class discussions have always been complicated, ...

The Nebraska and Illinois students were participating in the discussion for National Constitution Day, an annual holiday when schools are required to participate in lessons on the founding document.

Here are some ideas for improving classroom discussion from the ProfHacker archives.

After a five-minute discussion about shifting functions by tweaking equations, and after jotting a few examples on the whiteboard, Kohn unpaused the app and let the students return to self-paced work.

This Radio Rookies site lists examples of stories that may be useful to play as examples in the classroom. Transom.org is the go-to site for podcasting hopefuls in public media.

This can be done as a written assignment, think-pair-share activity, debate, or class discussion. Activities from the C-SPAN Classroom Deliberation site can also be used to engage students.

Class discussion can be challenging when you have a large class and only a few students who seem prepared to speak. Too often we allow the reticent folks in the room to silently sit and watch ...

If using a class discussion, the class brainstorm list from earlier in the lesson can be added to as students discuss new ideas. Why does misinformation spread and what can be done to limit its ...

d. In order to further facilitate open classroom discussion, faculty members may adopt additional guidelines regarding recounting or reporting on statements made in class. Any such guidelines should ...