Lead Guided Discussions

NOTE: This strategy is part of the self-paced Spark Collaboration Course

Guided discussions are group conversations that use a structured protocol and usually a variety of sentence stems to support learners with the conversation. These build collaboration skills that can be used in larger group projects.

Bright Spots

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Conversation Clubhouse

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Use sentence stems to support students with active listening skills that are critical for successful collaboration.

Collaborative discussions, such as the ones that take place in all subject areas at the College Preparatory School, allow students to learn from each other and practice important collaboration skills such as active listening, responding to others’ points of view and building on others’ ideas and depending on the structure of the discussion it may help learners negotiate to come to a shared decision. 

Socratic seminars are a structure for doing just that. 

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