Class discussion, my 2¢

Here’s a statement about discussion that I had on my syllabi, everything in it running counter to the idea that responding to a question in a classroom is a matter of having “the answer”:


That shortened link goes to an OCA guest post by my friend Stefan Hagemann about how to answer a professor’s question.

[I liked to make one-page syllabi, three columns on each side, a format I learned about from reading Edward Tufte. Compact, beautiful, and highly readable. When my university began to require that syllabi include boilerplate text about “learning objectives,” I had to go to two pages.]