Ted Hovet, English/CTL

Other Issues:

Common Teacher problems in sustaining discussions and interacting with students in discussions:

“Hiding the ball”: predetermined answer or agenda to questions and activities

Everything goes: no order or distinction among comments; a free for all rather than guided discussion

Tennis match: instructor responds to every comment rather than having students speak to each other.

All responses uniformly positive: it is important to respect all contributions, but to make distinctions among more and less helpful comments.