ERIC ED035836: A Workbook for Training Discussion Leaders.

by: ERIC

Publication date: 1968

Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Guides, Discussion Groups, Guides, Leadership Training, Program Design, Teaching Methods, Menkin, Paula

Collection: ericarchive; additional_collections

Language: English

This guide on group discussion leader training provides for a four session course structured to enable each trainee to practice and be evaluated. Session 1 stresses the nature and uses of discussion, and introduces trainees to role playing. Other sessions concentrate on summarizing and decision making; on group satisfaction or problem solving and the relation of discussion leaders to resource persons; and ways of dealing with individual problems. Appendixes provide sample topics for practice sessions, followed by possible variations on sample discussions and training design. (The document is also available, for $.50, from the League of Women Voters, 1134 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90019.) (ly)