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Guidelines for Discussion
Leadership |
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The purpose of this assignment is to allow participants
to lead the class discussion on topics of importance in the course.
Skills to be developed are: teaching and facilitating skills, intellective
skills, and verbal skills. One
participant will be assigned primary responsibility for each reading
assignment. The leader
will: (a) prepare and present a 5-10 minute opening analysis
of the material, (b) lead the subsequent class discussion.
To facilitate this, please prepare a handout for the students
and instructor consisting of the following items: (1) a short abstract
of the reading (if you write, less than 1/3 page single spaced), simply
copying the abstract when it is provided in the original reading or creating a new one when it is not provided, (2) short
bios of the authors from
materials available on the Web, including photo, where available,
and career information (start with: http://www.isfacdir.org/
but also do a Google search), (3) a short, up to 1 page (single-spaced)
critique of the material including, where appropriate, its relation
to other relevant readings in the course; and (4) several key questions
you want to have the class discuss. These items are to be neatly
prepared and a copy is to be distributed to each member of the class
in e-mailboxes by 9:00 a.m. of class day. Also, bring a few extra hard copies to
class as people may not have been able to get to their email in a
timely manner. Participants
will also be responsible for choosing and leading the discussion on
an experiment in an area of research interest to group members.
This is an individual assignment. Copies of the article
need to be made available to each class member. Deliverables: Abstract and critique of reading; leadership
of in-class discussion on topic.
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