4-1 Discussion: Practicing Your Skills in Other Settings
During conversations with friends, colleagues, or family, deliberately use single-word encouragers and brief restatements.
Then, in your discussion post, note your perceptions of how this impacted your friends’ participation and interest. You may find that the flow of conversation changes in response to your brief encouragers.
Then, respond to two or more of your peers’ posts and recommend additional ways you might build from using single-word encouragers to promote open dialogue and a comfortable setting with clients.
Your active participation in the discussion forums is essential to your overall success this term. Discussion questions are designed to help you make meaningful
connections between the course content and the larger concepts and goals of the course.
These discussions offer you the opportunity to express your own thoughts, ask questions for clarification, and gain insight from your classmates’ responses and instructor’s guidance.
Requirements for Discussion Board Assignments
Students are required to post one initial post and to follow up with at least two response posts for each discussion board assignment.
For your initial post (1), you must do the following:
Compose a post of one to two paragraphs.
Take into consideration material such as course content and other discussion boards from the current module and previous modules, when appropriate (make sure you are using proper citation methods for your discipline when referencing scholarly or popular resources).
For your response posts (2), you must do the following:
Reply to at least two different classmates outside of your own initial post thread.
Demonstrate more depth and thought than simply stating that “I agree” or “You are wrong.” Guidance is provided for you in each discussion prompt.
