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Many instructors have their own reasoning for their method...how do you open students to multiple possibilities while still making them follow your methodology, without seeming stubborn or closed minded yourself?

I list reqirements separate from the optional activities

Hi Adam,
Not sure what area you teach so I don't know if this will work for you but in my area I use case studies to get students to expand their thinking. By assigning case studies to learning groups when the groups report on their proposed solutions the students get to hear a variety of different ways of solving the problem. We then discuss these different ways in relation to how successful they would be. What the students find is that there may be 6 or 8 different ways of solving the problem while still following the required procedure. This information gives them pause to think and other options to explore.
Gary

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