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1. TEACHER READINESS: subject mastery, familiarity with approach, rapport with students, etc. - is the teacher able and willing to carry out this approach in class?

2. TIME: minimum amount of lesson time required for SAC (or any discussion-based approach) - does the work schedule allow for this?

3. STUDENT PREPAREDNESS: participants need to have completed pre-assigned readings in order for meaningful discussion to take place - 1) have students done their prep work, and 2) do they understand what they've read?

4. STUDENT ABILITY LEVEL: quality of group discussion and degree of participation is dependent on student ability; a wide range of ability levels will make engagement challenging - is there sufficient differentiation of the class to ensure that students in each group are of similar ability?

5. CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT (related to 1, 3 and 4): student discussions must be monitored to ensure on-task behaviour - ability of teacher to do this dependent on experience and skill (having a co-teacher helps), as well as rapport with class and student ability - how well is the lesson activity monitored and managed?

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1. Teachers' preparation
2. Time consuming
3. How to get students to stay focused on the discussion
4. Relevance to the syllabus
5. Teacher is not in control of the class

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1. Facilitation skills of Teachers
2. Choosing suitable materials and resources
3. time and transference to examination skills
4. Classroom management
5. How to address misconceptions during discussions?

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One challenge is;

1) to prevent this from becoming a talk shop teachers need to be very good in consolidating learning
2) Group dynamics: students might not b comfortable sharing and critiquing each other.

3)  outer circle- was o Ensure that they are also learning

4) time consuming to execute

5) SAC: OB Markers. Picking the right “controversy”

6) Inexperienced Teachers might have problems facilitating such discussions.

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1. Teacher competence - managing students,  managing teacher's own views/values, managing controversial issues
2. Time management - how to complete syllabus and skills etc?
3. class size - facilitating and managing discussions
4. managing very quiet and very vocal students
5. physical space

Solutions
1. Coaching by more experienced teachers - professional development - peer observation -  deployment (e.g. co/paired teaching) - take reference from societal values
2. careful planning of SOW / curriculum - be selective
3. set very clear ground rules / routines/ instructions/expectations - if there are many groups, can appoint student group leaders/facilitators - initially have a small group to demonstrate while the others are observers - collaboration with other departments (e.g. EL, CCE)
4. setting routines e.g. using coloured cups to facilitate turn-taking
5. Change venue - using alternative spaces

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1. Time constraints
2. Students weak in reading/questioning
3. Heavy preparation work
4. Students do not have content to discuss issues given
5. Students may not be interested in issues given

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1) time constraint
2) how to translate discussion to quality writing
3) how to ensure that the students’ have learnt the objective of the lesson
4) how to choose topics that are nuanced and of the appropriate pitxhing
5) anticipating different questions and discussion points

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1) Resistance to Change
- Accustomed to chalk and talk
- If it works, why change?

2) Time

3) Teacher competency
- Classroom mgmt
- Facilitation

4) Alignment to syllabus and assessment requirements

5) Perceived Student competency/readiness