Seminar Leader Behaviors
To ask a series of questions that give direction to the discussion.
To be sure that questions are understood or rephrased until they are
understood.
To raise issues that lead to further questions.
To ask questions which allow for a range of answers deserving
consideration and demanding judgment.
To allow for discussion of conflict or differences.
To examine answers and draw out implications or reasons.
To request that reasons be given for answers.
To not entertain answers for argument’s sake alone.
To be open to questions and issues raised by answers.
To not insist upon common agreement to one answer.
To present all sides of an argument.
To be an active listener.
Seminar Student Behaviors
To ask questions about what you read, hear, and see.
To be courteous to one another.
To pause and think before you answer.
To give your opinion and make sure it is clear.
To make judgments and explain them.
To tell how you solved a problem or arrived at an answer.
To find examples to back up what you say.
To give reasons from the text to explain your answers.
To listen to others tell their ideas.
To be critical of others’ opinions.
To ask for help if you do not understand.
To offer help to your classmates when they do not understand.
To use more than one idea at a time.
To keep our minds open to opinions different than our own.
To make predictions project what might happen.
To search for relationships.
To be willing to change our opinions with the addition of more information
or for compelling reasons.