In my opinion discussion is a very useful tool to engage and activate the class. It is very important for a teacher to rise right and useful questions in the discussion and without this capability classroom discussion may not be productive, mind provoking, and will be waste of time. Teachers need to manage class discussions, because there are always students need to talk more, some of them are out of topic, therefore managing class discussions will be challenging. Finally discussion is useful method and encourage diversity of students and I liked it. It is not always easy and simple to manage class discussions, therefore it is needed to plan and set up guiding questions rather than to follow the new ideas generated form the class.
Learnng through discussion (LTD) is a model, which consist of 4 steps: 1) Students explore and do the research on given topic alone. 2) They compare their findings in pairs. 3) They gather with their findings into bigger groups, discuss and try to form a common agreement on findings. 4) Every student takes part in a conversation with everyone in the class room. This might be a bit chaotic sometimes, but it is very useful experience. This way more than just a few students will be activated into discussion compared to a normal teaching and reflecting situation
There are other methods that can be activate classes such as Self-Regulate Learning; teacher is like mentor who is observing students efforts to set certain goals for his/her own learning, process with investigation, and reflect on the learning outcomes against individually set criterion.
Please watch below video, and you will admire how teaching can be activated.
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