Instead of traditional lectures, teaching through a student-participation method, called “active learning,” is becoming popular. In an active-learning lesson, students are supposed to“actively” acquire knowledge and deepen their ideas concerning the topic through activities such as writing, discussion, presentations, and so on. Among such activities, discussion-type lessons are on the rise. Because of this, there are more opportunities related to the management of such classes for those who are engaged in teaching.

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