Strategies for Discussion
Over the past 15 years, the field has begun to tackle the problem of providing teachers with guidelines and tools to support the facilitation of productive classroom discussions. Ten strategies for facilitating productive discussions are listed below:
Discussions can provide students with opportunities to learn by talking with their peers and by engaging in argumentation, justification, and reasoning in whole-class discussions. In discussion-oriented classrooms, students' responses inform the teacher questions and shape the course of the classroom talk. In particular, the teacher validates particular students' ideas by incorporating their responses into subsequent questions.
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