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Tuesday, 17 December 2013

The Silent Debate!


The Silent Debate!




I heard of the silent debate in my training year and decided to give it a go with my top set Year 8s.
We were doing a media SOW about the representation of men and women in the music industry. I put a statement on the board ‘Men have more power than women in the 21st century’ as they walked in. I explained to the class that they were going to have a silent debate. Each student wrote the statement and their answer to it in their books. Once this had happened, the person next to them had to respond by either disagreeing or agreeing with them in silence by writing underneath. I told them to do this minimum of 3 times. If they agreed with the person, they had to debate by adding on reasons why they though this.
It really challenged the children to push their thinking and reasoning skills and was a great starter activity to get the children settled into the class, thinking about either a previous topic or one for the lesson. 


Jennifer Winward
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