{"id":1892,"date":"2017-02-08T16:34:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T20:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2017-02-08T16:34:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T20:34:36","slug":"the-sound-and-fury-when-classroom-discussions-are-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2017\/02\/08\/the-sound-and-fury-when-classroom-discussions-are-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sound and Fury (When Classroom Discussions are Difficult)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1893\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1893\" class=\"wp-image-1893\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/files\/2017\/02\/tree-swallows-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"Tree swallows arguing.\" width=\"250\" height=\"243\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Greg, Flickr: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2k3QJKc\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2k3QJKc<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes class discussions are difficult because students are hesitant to participate or because one student tends to dominate. And sometimes\u2014as we&#8217;ve heard from faculty in these turbulent times\u2014they&#8217;re difficult because emotions are running high and some students may be angry or anxious.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few resources to help faculty navigate these challenges.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Teaching Trump | Active Learning in Political Science \u00a9\" href=\"http:\/\/activelearningps.com\/2017\/02\/01\/teaching-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\">Teaching Trump &#8211; Amanda Rosen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Tricky Task of Teaching About Trump - The Chronicle of Higher Education\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/The-Tricky-Task-of-Teaching\/238209\" target=\"_blank\">The Tricky Task of Teaching About Trump &#8211; Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.georgetown.edu\/teaching\/teach\/discussions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Georgetown University Teaching Commons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cft.vanderbilt.edu\/guides-sub-pages\/difficult-dialogues\/\" target=\"_blank\">Difficult Dialogues<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teachingcommons.stanford.edu\/resources\/teaching-resources\/interacting-students\/classroom-challenges\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford Teaching Commons &#8211; Classroom Challenges<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teachingandlearninginhighered.org\/2016\/03\/11\/getting-students-to-talk-to-each-other-rather-than-the-teacher\/\" target=\"_blank\">Getting Students to Talk to Each Other, Rather Than the Teacher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes class discussions are difficult because students are hesitant to participate or because one student tends to dominate. And sometimes\u2014as we&#8217;ve heard from faculty in these turbulent times\u2014they&#8217;re difficult because emotions are running high and some students may be angry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2017\/02\/08\/the-sound-and-fury-when-classroom-discussions-are-difficult\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6875],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promote-to-ctl-home-page","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}