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2008 Workshop Talk | 1:05:59 | All Grade Levels, General Classroom

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The goal of a discussion-based teaching environment is to foster the skills of thinking, speaking, and arguing.
This means students depend on and trust one another to do their homework. Unlike other styles, students are accountable to come to class ready to discuss, deliberate with their peers, and after much collaboration and reflection, to persuade and influence toward a particular opinion. Christians share a life together within the community of GodÍs people: we respect one another, we have patience with one another, we care about the marginalized and oppressed (no community is free of this), we consider others better than ourselves, we care
about the diversity within GodÍs people, we come to conversations in humility, ready to listen before speaking Far from being a pedagogy that emphasizes the relativity of individual opinion, the discussion-based teaching seeks to point students toward that which is true, good, and beautiful and to care about how the true, good, and beautiful matter for their neighbor.

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