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Use your seating chart

The seating chart is a tool for leading discussion. Jotting down comments that you want to pursue immediately, as well as those you want to return to later, keeps good ideas from getting lost. The seating chart also helps you keep track of participation and gives you a record of the ideas and answers that came up in discussion.

Be careful, however, not to let keeping the seating chart interfere with listening and leading a good discussion.

Example of a seating chart

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Getting Started with Great Books in the Classroom

Key traits for a discussion leader:

  • Listen
  • Be curious
  • Ask

    The best introduction to Shared Inquiry and using Junior Great Books is the Basic Leader Training Course.
    More on JGB training...