To get your School council discussion started and begin to think
globally…
Discussion starters are any pictures, photographs, drawings,
quotes, newspaper articles in fact anything you can bring along to your
school council to raise an issue and get a discussion started.
Some of the best discussion starters are 'home made'.
You will need to think carefully about the kind of information
you will need to get from the discussion starter and this will help you
decide which questions to raise. If you are using pictures ask the group
to describe what they see.
Can they identify a problem?
How do they think it is being caused?
Does this situation happen regularly?
Have any other people in the group experienced this
situation?
What do they think might be some of the implications?
Then you can begin to think of possible 'solutions' and action your school
council can take.
