CIRCLE OF VOICES
Purpose:
Generate ideas, develop listening skills, have all students participate, equalize learning environment
Set Up:
Moveable chairs preferable
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How it works:
This method involves students taking turns to speak. Students form circles of four or five. Give students a topic, and allow them a few minutes to organize their thoughts about it. Then the discussion begins, with each student having up to three minutes (or choose a different length) of uninterrupted time to speak. During this time, no one else is allowed to say anything.
After everyone has spoken once, open the floor within the subgroup for general discussion. Specify that students should only build on what someone else has said, not on their own ideas; also, at this point, they should not introduce new ideas (Brookfield & Preskill, 1999)
(all from
http://cte.uwaterloo.ca/teaching_resources/teaching_>ps/Other/gw_types_of_small_groups.p df.pdf)
POST – IT DIALOGUES
Purpose:
Public discussion without necessarily having to ‘speak’ publicly, visual a, kinaesthetic and auditory elements, good for having something tangible to discuss ‘around’
Set Up:
Post‐it notes for each student, space to move around
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How it works:
Lots of different ways – could have a few sheets of sugar paper with statements or questions on and students read them and post comments; groups of 3/4/5 have to answer question on post its, or produce comments, which they then share, discuss and present; could use ‘role on the wall’ and students express opinions/emotions on post‐its.
ROTATING STATIONS
Purpose:
Build on others’ ideas, cover a topic or question holistically, active and pacey
Set Up:
Series of stations around the room with stimulus, sugar paper and pens (or give each group a different coloured pen to take around – therefore keep track of who’s contributed what)
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How it works:
Locate each small group at a station where they are given 10 minutes to discuss a provocative issue and record their ideas on newsprint or a chalkboard. When this time is up the groups move to new stations in the classroom where they continue their discussion, based on the ideas they encounter from the previous group. Rotations continue every 10 minutes until each group has been at all of the positions and has had a chance to consider all of the other groups' comments
(from http://drscavanaugh.org/discussion/inclass/discussion_formats.htm)
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