re: #109 WhatEVs

So as an educator, how do you get around not asking them to think? What kind of discussions do you have? Is it all lecture with no break out groups?

I teach Listening Comprehension and Spoken English, so most discussions occur during the latter. But I do feed them material in both classes that I hope will get them thinking, and a recent debate I staged went over very well. The topic was “in a relationship, must the man always make more than the woman?” They like assignments like that, because they rarely get a chance in their other classes to discuss issues.