After a hard question in municipal ethics training, the room goes silent. How should the instructor use that silence?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Silence after a hard ethics question is think time, not a pothole. Let the pause work. Jumping in with the answer, a joke, or a snap cold-call steals the thinking the question was for.
Full Explanation
Pauses and silence are non-verbal tools. Wait time after a demanding question lets learners formulate a response; nervous filling returns the class to instructor talk. Immediate self-answers, joke filler, and instant cold-calls treat discomfort as failure instead of using silence to support thinking.