WEEK13: Getting Students to Participate in Classroom Discussion.

Base on the reading  "10 Benefits of Getting Students to Participate in Classroom Discussions" & Increase Student Interaction with "Think­Pair­Shares" and "Circle Chats"

According to the article, there are ten important benefits of  getting students to participate in classroom discussion, also, Participation is one of those workhorse instructional strategies—easy to use, straightforward, expected, and often quite successful at accomplishing a number of learning goals.

The ten benefits are: Participation adds interest. Participation engages student. Participation provides the teacher feedback. Participation provides the students feedback. Participation can be used to promote preparation. Participation can be used to control what’s happening in class. Participation can be used to balance who’s contributing in class and how much. Participation encourages dialogue among and between students. Participation can be used to develop important speaking skills. Participation gives students the opportunity to practice using the language of the discipline. 

Those are the ten principals and the most importants benefits that teachers get using the method of discussion in clas because in this way all the students can share they opinions with their classmates. As the first benefit say, the participation add interest; the students become interest in the topic of they are talking about. Furthermore, with the participation of students in those activities teacher can provides feedbackto the studens and easily teacher can identify if students have some difficulties with communicate with their classmates and get the answer about why this is happening and how can solve it. 

In the second article the  author is talking about the interaction between students, she mention the thinking pair share  and the circle chats activities with the goal to obtain classmates communication. The author claim that with those activities teachers can get good results in communication because motivate students to interact with other and interchange idas and opinions about a specific topic.moreover, with this activities teacher can have the opportunity to hear all the students, including the shy ones and quiet ones. 

Creating an interactive classroom enviroment teacher can get excellent results in speaking skill and also, offer to the learners the opportunity to practice the language because is really important that they practice the language and improve their skills in order to become successful students in the language acquisition.