A few of the possible behaviors which can encourage the establishment of an environment conducive to participation are:
• Remembering and referring to students' ideas
• Yielding to class members during a discussion
• Acknowledging one's own fallibility
• Framing open-ended questions which allow expressions of opinion and personal interpretations of data
• Accepting the students' right to be wrong as well as correct
• Encouraging joint determinations of goals and procedures when feasible (e.g., "How can I help you best to learn this material?")
• Sharing the responsibility for learning with the learners (i.e., permitting students to answer their peers' questions)
• Freeing oneself from the burden of thinking that students cannot learn elsewhere what isn't covered in class
• Encouraging group presentations of the material to be covered
• Soliciting student participation in their own learning assessment such as developing test questions and jointly correcting examinations