Like every people have different personality, many teachers have their own teaching style. Some like lecture style classes since they can cover more contents in their class, and others prefer allow students to do some discussion in their classes. In my point of view, discussion class seems much effective because it not only able to cover contents deeply, but also students can learn social skills during classes.
To begin with, discussion class helps students understand what they learn deeply. While recture style classes clam lots of contents in one class without exchange of opinion between students and educaters, students in discussion class can interact with their professor and it make professor explain about the class deeper and they can response to whay students want to ask. For example, when I was a secondary student, my Korean history teacher often held discussion classes because he knew that history is not a direct knowledge and lots of question can be made when students think about historical occurences. He was always willing to listen to student's questions and responded to it immediatly. The class enabled me to understand history in depth and I could realized that what in the history textbook doesn't always correct.
On top of that, during classes, students can raise social skills. A lot of opinions are exchanged in the classes where the students do some of the talking. In the classes, by listening to and accepting other people's views, participants of class are accustomed to talk with others logically and learn how to interact with others. To illustrate this, my elementary school homeroom teacher liked to take students charge in class and he allowed students to talk about one topic such as a good quality of leaders. In the classes, though we sometimes conflicted, usually finished the discussion peacefuly. Through the experience, I could raise my perspective towords our society and became a social person.
In conclusion, I strongly convince that classes where students can present their opinions and talk with other students is much better than classes where educaters do everything in their class former type of class make students understand what they learn profoundly and develop students' social skills. Through the classes, students will will show better performances in both academic subjects and their life. |