SAMPLE
SMALL GROUP LISTENING EXERCISE
COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING STEPS:
- Choose
one of your group members’ chosen position paper topics
- Identify
the heart of the controversy on
the topic. Frame this central issue as a question.
- Briefly
share perspectives on the central issue with one another. Be sure that everyone in the group has responded
(even briefly) to this question: “What is your perspective on the central
issue?” Do not move to Step 4 until
everyone has contributed.
- Select
two group members to serve as reporters. Assist each reporter in preparing
a brief summary of a reasonable, well informed point of
view on the central issue. Be
sure the views the two reporters are significantly
different from one another (and potentially
at odds with one another).
- After
completing this process, write the central issue on the board.