1. Individual work: Give participants individual work. For instance, last Sunday I gave the teachers two questions: a) What is discipline? b) What strategies do we follow for maintaining discipline in class?
2. Merry go around: After they have answered the questions. Take them to the 2nd step: Ask all participants to stand in a circle. They say numbers in two’s – one, two; one, two. All the ones stand where they are. The twos face the ones on their left. Now they start sharing with each other their answers. After one or so minutes when the signal is given, the one’s stand wherever they are (outer circle) but the two’s (inner circle) move a step to the left in such a way that they meet a new person in the outer circle. And now start sharing your answers with the new person.
3. Group Summaries: Stop the sharing when you find that the participants are getting tired, or have met everyone. After this sharing ask participants to form two groups (ones and twos) and come up with a summary of what they heard. Provide flipcharts to write their findings.
4. Plenary and conclusion: After listening to the group reports give your own input. Often you find that the participants (especially they are adults) have listed most of what you wanted to say.
Try it out.