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Principles and Strategies of Teaching Discussion Techniques

The document discusses principles and strategies for teaching using classroom discussion techniques. It describes different types of discussion techniques including expository, seminar, panel, symposium, buzz, brainstorming, and debate. It provides guidance on how to conduct discussions, including preparing, opening, guiding, and closing a discussion. The goal is to develop students' cognitive and thinking skills through active engagement and sharing of ideas.

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Principles and Strategies of Teaching Discussion Techniques

The document discusses principles and strategies for teaching using classroom discussion techniques. It describes different types of discussion techniques including expository, seminar, panel, symposium, buzz, brainstorming, and debate. It provides guidance on how to conduct discussions, including preparing, opening, guiding, and closing a discussion. The goal is to develop students' cognitive and thinking skills through active engagement and sharing of ideas.

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Principles and Strategies of

Teaching

Focus: Techniques of Questioning, Discussion and


Classroom Management
Expected Competency: Using Principles of teaching and
learning associated with questioning, discussion, and
classroom management in actual classroom
situations

A thousand teachers,
a thousand
methods.
-Chinese Proverbs

CLASSROOM DISCUSSION
TECHNIQUES

CONCEPT:
Orderly process of face to face group interaction
in which students exchange ideas about an issue for
the purpose of:
1. Solving problem
2. Answering a question
3.enhancing their
knowledge/understanding
4. Making a decision

CHARACTERISTICS OF
QUALITY DISCUSSION
Quality discussion requires 5 logical condition
1. Student talk to one another
2. Listen to one another
3. Respond to one another
4. They collectively put forward more than one point of view
5. Intention of developing knowledge/ understanding
Quality discussion has:
1. Minimum argument
2. Purposeful, systematic
3. Not teacher dominated

Why use classroom discussion


techniques?
1. An active learning process
2. Develops ability to analyze and express
3. Opportunities to visualize student thinking
4. Enable students to reconstruct knowledge
5. Facilitates sharing of ideas
6. Generates new ideas
7. Checks misconceptions
8. Develops tolerance of opinion of others

WHEN TO USE
1. For developing cognitive skills
2. For developing thinking and expressive
skills
3. For developing mastery of conceptual skills
4. When there is a common focus

WHEN NOT TO USE


1. When providing an overview
2. When introducing an unfamiliar
material
3. When explaining a difficult concept
4. When undertaking difficult project
5. When students are unprepared

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM


TEACHER AND STUDENT
TEACHER
1. Willing attitude to engage student in discussion
2. Encouraging
3. Listen actively
4. Objective
5. Well informed
6. Reflective
STUDENT
1. Well prepared
2. Possesses listening skills
3.Objective and Rational
4. 8Interactive

DISCUSSION TECHNIQUES AND


STRATEGIES
EXPOSITORY
1. Teacher recalls related experiences
2. Teacher tells/explains/interprets
a. stories and analogies
b. illustrations
c. models
d. diagram
3. Students discuss response to teachers questions

DISCUSSION TECHNIQUES AND


STRATEGIES
SEMINAR
Steps
1. Teacher assigns topics to several
students
2. Students read
3. Students discuss
4. Teacher directs discussion

DISCUSSION TECHNIQUES AND


STRATEGIES
PANEL
1. Assigns a problem to a group of 3 to 6 students
2. Talk about it. No speech
3. Panel members agree, disagree, qualify, elaborate
4. Chair keeps discussion to the point
5. A non-participant summarizes
6. Class ask questions, makes comments
7. Chair summarizes

DISCUSSION TECHNIQUES AND


STRATEGIES
SYMPOSIUM
1. Assigns problems/issues to students
representing differing views
2. Present ideas as short speeches
3. Student moderator opens meeting to
question/comments to other students

DISCUSSION TECHNIQUES AND


STRATEGIES
BUZZ
1. Presentation of the whole class
2. Teacher divides the class into subgroup of 6-7 members
3. Subgroup selects discussion leader and reporter
4. Each member of subgroup expresses himself about the
presentation
5. Subgroup reform into original large group
6. Each group reporter summarizes reactions and presents
questions raised
7. Class answers questions

DISCUSSION TECHNIQUES AND


STRATEGIES
BRAINSTORMING
1. Bring out many problems
2. Elicit ideas
3. Select one problem
4. Elicit ideas about the problem
5. Suggest solution
6. Elicit ideas about the solution
7. Examine ideas about the solution
8. Examine analytically and evaluatively each idea
9. Adapt and elaborate upon ideas suggested

DISCUSSION TECHNIQUES AND


STRATEGIES
DEBATE DISCUSSION
1. Assigns issues to 2 or more students to take a
definite point of view
2. Students present their opinion/facts
3. Students respond to questions
4. Teacher synthesizes the arguments
Purpose: win an argument than a scholarly search
for agreement

HOW TO CONDUCT THE VARIOUS


DISCUSSION STRATEGIES
Step 1 : Prepare for a discussion
1. Prepare yourself
a. Decide the purpose
b. Specify exact subject
c. Research background information
2. Prepare student
a. Build common experiences and
understanding
b. Explain how discussion will be conducted

HOW TO CONDUCT THE VARIOUS


DISCUSSION STRATEGIES
3. Prepare discussion plan
a. Objectives
b. Outline of the subject to be discussed
c. Focused question
d. Supplementary questions to guide discussion
4. Prepare the discussion environment
a. help student relax
b. Seating arrangement in circle
c. Record important points

HOW TO CONDUCT THE VARIOUS


DISCUSSION STRATEGIES
Step 2 : Open the discussion
1. Motivate with a question
2. Clarify discussion,procedures/strategies
3. Set level of discussion by asking key
questions in various levels
4. Memory evaluation

HOW TO CONDUCT THE VARIOUS


DISCUSSION STRATEGIES
Step 3 : Keep discussion moving
1. Guide discussion towards objectives
2. Use appropriate questions for:
directing attention, prompting for response, engaging
reluctant student, clarifying a point, refocusing, elaborating,
inviting questions
3. Build spirit of group cooperation rather than allow sides to
build issue
4. Summarize from time to time
5. Align contributions

HOW TO CONDUCT THE VARIOUS


DISCUSSION STRATEGIES
Step 4 : Closing discussion
1. Summarize main points
2. Foreshadowing link to previous
3. Record notes
4. Evaluating strategies used
Four Stages of Learning Video

THANK YOU
Dr.Lelanie D. Perido

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