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Discussion Strategies

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Teaching Strategy

SPAR (Spontaneous Argumentation)

Use this debate-style activity to strengthen students’ ability to use evidence and examples to defend their positions.

Two students sitting in a classroom with one student talking
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Teaching Strategy

Café Conversations

Students practice perspective-taking by representing the point of view of an assigned personality in a small-group discussion.

Five students sit around a table in discussion