Synchronous discussion

Task Patterns

Description:
Synchronous discussion can encourage students to learn from one another through collaboratively exchanging ideas among teachers and students.

Implementation notes
1. For large group discussion, role-playing is a technique to force students’ positive interactions and relations, i.e., assigned roles of researchers or school principals, to develop their insights into stakeholder positions.
2. For whole class discussion, ask a mix of questions to help students recall specific information, describe topics and phenomena, and evaluate information after the discussion.
3. Jigsaw discussion can be introduced to get more specific feedback by enabling each student of a “home” group to specialize in one aspect of a topic.