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- | ====== Seminar leadership roles ====== | ||
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- | We often face a problem in seminar discussions. Students are supposed to drive the agenda, but if students don’t prepare, or want to avoid participating (because they are shy, worried, or lack confidence, etc.) then the discussion is driven by the instructor, and becomes a ping-pong game of question-and-answer, | ||
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- | Likewise, to learn how to work in a group of peers, and to avoid having our classes devolve into lectures by Ryan, one of your assignments is to prepare a specific kind of contribution each week and play a specific role in the class. Last year, Terry Woronov and I modified Sahlins’s adopted method for use in // | ||
- | Everyone in class will be assigned to a small group of five or six people. Each week, your group will be assigned to take on a specific role in leading the class discussion, and these roles will rotate among the groups. The leadership roles are: | ||
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- | a. to identify topics for discussion and to ask open-ended questions for everyone to debate | ||
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- | b. to answer the questions that people ask, and to offer points on specific topics | ||
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- | c. to make (constructive) comments about and/or ask (genuine) questions of other people about their ideas. (“Why do you think that way?”; “What was the thing that led you to your idea?”; “We are looking at this from X perspective, | ||
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- | d. to call on people who have not spoken, to remind the class to make space for other voices, to evaluate the overall discussion (including the degree of people’s participation), | ||
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- | The purpose of this division of labor is to make sure everyone prepares to participate in class discussion, and to help set up a class discussion in which students take the lead. Hence, the structure of discussion in class will be flexible. | ||
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- | * First and most importantly, | ||
- | * Second, this is not meant to be a cookie-cutter, | ||
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- | Your group does not have to prepare anything together, but you can if you want. This is not a group assignment; everyone will be individually graded on whether or not they fulfilled their assigned role. | ||
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- | # Reference | ||
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- | Sahlins, Marshall. 2009. “My Real-Magical Year with Greg Dening.” //The Contemporary Pacific// 21 (2): 304–5. https:// | ||
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