Sunday, April 23rd 2017
Alejandra Carolina Amaya Valle
Week 14
The Big Influence to Include students´ Participation in our Discussion Classes
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These articles “10 Benefits of Getting Students to participate in Classroom Discussions,” and "Increase Student Interaction with "Think-Pair Shares" and "Circle Chats” are very meaningful and interesting for me because explain us how to create activities in which students interact with other classmates to understand a topic in the like manner, explain the successful students can obtain when they are asked to participate in discussions since they improve their speaking and the vocabulary and they feel more comfortable when they start listening other´s point of view .
In the first article, the author claimed about the benefits of student’s participation in classroom discussions. Something that I learned from this article is that by listening how students express their ideas, we as teachers can identify the areas where students need to be reinforced and at the same time is easier to realize in what part we should emphasize takin,g into account . Furthermore, when students give us a wrong answer it is an indicator that students did not understand the topic of the
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In the same way, the second article provides two activities that promote participation, which are “Think Pair Shares” and “Circle Chats”. What I like the most from this article is the facts that author explain in clear way the steps of these activities, something that results very helpful at the time to do these activities with students. In conclusion, as a teachers we need to look for strategies for our students in order that they understand, interact, analyze, and produce the language.
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