Mylien Duong discusses strategies for facilitating contentious conversations in your classroom on episode 532 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

We were never really trained to have these difficult conversations. We were not really trained as instructors to facilitate these conversations.

It is not realistic to not prepare our students to be civically engaged and be able to engage and work with people who are different from them who don’t share the same beliefs that they do.

My goal is to help students to fully understand students, to help them clarify their own thinking, and to ensure and to help them communicate that to the rest of the class.