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- CLASSROOM OPINION POLLS - instructor reviews lesson plan and gathers up questions or interesting points that the students would express opinion about on that certain subject. Formulate a Poll of a few questions and then tally up the results to discuss how the students react.
- DOUBLE-ENTRY JOURNALS - students read an assigned text and record in their first journal entry the main ideas, arguments and/or most controversial points. In their second entry the students express the values of the passage and explain the personal significance (i.e. interests, concerns, and values).
- PROFILES OF ADMIRABLE INDIVIDUALS - have students write a brief, focused profile of an individual in a field related to course material whom they greatly admire their values, skills, or actions.
- EVERYDAY ETHICAL DILEMMAS - instructor decides on a controversial issue and creates a dilemma that includes two or three questions that students must take position on. Students write up anonymous/individual responses (at home or in class) and finally discuss the issue (with the entire class or in small groups).
- COURSE-RELATED SELF-CONFIDENCE SURVEYS - instructor coordinates a few simple questions into a survey to help get a measure of the students' self-confidence in a specific skill or ability that is new, unfamiliar, or familiar but failed to learn previously.
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