class discussion
Students talking together
A class discussion is a structured conversation in an educational setting where students and instructor exchange ideas about course material.
The format encourages active participation rather than passive listening: The professor opened the floor for class discussion.
Students may be graded on the quality and frequency of their contributions.
- seminarGroup discussion for learning
- Socratic methodTeaching by strategic questioning
- debateFormal argument on issues
- participationAct of taking part
- classroomEducational instruction space
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- classroom activitiesgroup work, hand raising, reading aloud, presentation, worksheets
- classroomdesk, desks, chair, chairs, teacher
- schoolteachers, classrooms, student, grades, students
- teachingteaching, lesson plans, instructing, educating, courses
- schoolworkhomework, assignment, assignments, reading, essays
- discussionsdiscussions, forum, talks, roundtable, dialogues
class discussionlecture
Educational spoken presentation
monologue · teacher talk · lecturing · chalk and talk · sermon
class discussionindependent study
Self-directed academic project
silent reading · solo work · self-study · homework · test-taking
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