Facilitation Tips:

•        Make sure that you have thoroughly read and understand all of the material

•        Everyone is responsible for reading and facilitating all of the material - DO NOT assign each person an article

•       Provide a brief synopsis prior to beginning the discussion of each article.

• Make sure you give the operational definitions and examples for ambiguous concepts or variables (e.g. social identity)

•      Group your facilitation questions by article and by theme.

• Be sure to combine questions that deal with a common theme.

• Make sure that you include question that focus on the central theme of the readings

• Restate or reword poorly phrased questions so that they are clear to the class

• Have built in follow-up questions ready to use during discussion.

• Have in mind the main points of the article and try to get the class to emphasize these issues

• Don’t rush through the questions.  Give the class time to fully discuss each one.  Ask for different or opposing view points.  Play the devil’s advocate.  If you pose a question to the class you should be ready to spend a minimum of 5-10 minutes developing an answer.

• Make sure you reinforce the class when they make good points or suggestions.

• Don’t be afraid if the discussion takes an unexpected turn, but don’t allow the class to stray too far from the topic or central point of the readings.

• Make sure that you give the class time to answer the questions, don’t be afraid to wait or allow them time to refer back to the material.

• Try to provide a summary of the discussion at the end of the period.

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