Difficult Dialogues

Are you worried about the potential for “hot button” issues to create uncomfortable situations in your classroom? Or are you interested in planning ahead to facilitate class discussions that will tackle challenging content to enhance your course objectives and deepen student learning? The purpose of these guides is to provide instructors with concrete strategies that they can use to orient their class towards meeting learning outcomes through difficult discussions rather than to allow them to disrupt learning.

What Is Included in These Documents?

These quick guides are filled with strategies you can use now to prepare for and reflect on crucial conversations in your classroom.

Strategies & Techniques

Difficult Dialogues – Part 1

Are you worried about the potential for “hot button” issues to create uncomfortable situations in your classroom? The purpose of this guide is to provide instructors with some concrete strategies that they can use to orient their class towards meeting learning outcomes through difficult discussions rather than to allow them to disrupt learning.

Difficult Dialogues – Part 2

The purpose of this guide is to provide instructors with concrete strategies and resources to help you plan for, anticipate and facilitate difficult dialogues in your classroom.

Difficult Dialogues – Part 3

Careful reflection in the days and weeks following a difficult classroom discussion is essential to improve teaching and learning. The purpose of this document is to provide instructors with some concrete strategies for ways in which you can synthesize what happened and plan to facilitate future difficult dialogues in your classroom.

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