500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and Trainers

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Chapter 7

25 Ways to Have Groups Report

Chapter Overview

There are few things duller than listening to someone read a speech. On a less-grand scale, there are

few classroom things duller than listening to a group spokesperson read his report. And yet, if you

don’t call on groups to share reports about the work they have done, they are likely to feel slighted or

feel that they did “all that work for nothing.”

Don’t despair. There are ever so many ways to get the reports from the groups without causing

educational ennui in the others as they listen. Here are 25 of those ways.

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hallenge them to condense.

Condensing lengthy reports will ...