Frequently Asked Questions About Discussion From the Teaching Resource Center at Indiana University, this pages poses and answers frequently asked questions concerning discussion and concurrent facilitation.

Fostering Effective Classroom Discussions  Recommendations from three faculty members in English at Virginia Tech. They argue that the theoretical and pedagogical developments in writing instruction over the last fifteen years have made fostering effective classroom discussions a crucial teaching skill.

Question Types From the Teaching and Learning Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The major types of questions fall into four categories:  managerial: questions which keep the classroom operations moving; rhetorical: questions used to emphasize a point or to reinforce an idea or statement; closed: questions used to check retention or to focus thinking on a particular point; and open: questions used to promote discussion or student interaction.

Encouraging Class Discussion  A Berkeley Compendium, this is an extensive and in-depth analysis of running and encouraging productive class discussions.

Discussion Teaching From the University of Chicago From a series of readings and practical advice for beginning teachers, the authors tell us that "like an effective lecture, an effective discussion has a beginning, a middle, and an end that are all controlled by the agenda for a particular session."

Dimensions of Discussion Teaching  A slide presentation which goes in-depth and logically into the discussion as a teaching and learning technique.

Discussion Teaching  This site is a scholarly analysis of discussion teaching, which is grounded in the belief that learning is an active social endeavor and that knowledge is best acquired through active participation in learning experiences which are tied to students' experiences and interests.

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