Teachers play an important role in facilitating student participation in several ways: 1) They can encourage participation by asking open-ended questions that spark discussion and close-ended questions that elicit longer answers from students. 2) Teachers should use techniques like pausing after asking a question to allow students time to respond, and asking another student for help if no one answers initially. 3) Framing participation as a collective responsibility of the whole class, rather than just individuals, can also help facilitate discussion where students build on each other's responses.

4. • When students talk during the class.
• When they raise their hands for volunteering
• When the teacher asks a question and everybody says
something nobody can understand.
• When students get involved in every aspect of the class,
not only by talking, but showing interest and provoking
peer participation.

5. Teachers play an
important role
We have to facilitate students’ participation.

6. Teacher: Class, do you understand?
Class: (chorally) Yes we do!
Teacher: Hello Bryan, What did you do this weekend?
Bryan: Errr… (pause and silence)
Teacher: Did you go to the movies?
Bryan: Yes
Teacher: Did you like the movie?
Bryan: Yes
Teacher: I need a volunteer, please raise your hands.
Class: (silence, everybody seems unattentive)
Teacher: I will give you extra points.
Class: (everybody reising hands) Me! Me! Me!

7. • They are the simplest form of interaction and can occur at any moment.
• Do not give the answer, but elicit the answer.
• Use Open ended questions (Wh- questions) to spark discussion and
Close Ended Questions to elicit and encourage longer answers.
• Try the PPP technique:
Pose a question
Pause for answer.
Pounce for somebody else for help.

8. • Good for vocabulary lists.
• Activates previous knowledge.
• Consolidates what has been
taught.
• Only some participate.
• Can be outside of context.

9. • Why don’t we give
specific instructions?
Tell names of animals
with each letter of the
alphabet.
• Ant, alligator…. Bee, bear…. Cat, crocodile…. Q??? X???

10. • Everybody has to write.
• Enhances listening skills.
• May result boring if used
often.
• But….

12. Not only saying:
Manuel, you are the
teacher.
Christina, you are the
student.
Jose, you are the principal.

13. Role 1 Role 2
Your company has designed a You are having a meeting to
range of revolutionary new hear about some amazing
products completely different new products from an
from your usual ones. important suplier.
You are having a meeting Ask a lot of questions and
with one of your best find as much as you can
costumers. Describe the new about the products.
product to him/her.

14. Hollander (2002) discusses the need to present participation
as a collective responsibility of the class rather than just an
individual responsibility. In order to facilitate a conversation
where connections are made, students need to view their
participation as a contribution to a shared experience.
Asking students to respond to a peer’s response helps to
facilitate a conversation. As well, positively reinforcing such
contributions builds this sense of collectivism.

15. Create a vibrant Training Environment

16. Question your question style

17. Be different. Create a shared experience