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As a class:
- Get a grip on the issue from your past lessons on this topic:
- Write the issue as a question
- Who is involved? List the groups and/or individuals
- What are the arguments for and against?
- Who is on what side?
- What triggered this issue?
- What actions have been taken so far?
- Who is affected?
- Form four groups selecting one person or group from the nine people or groups identified previously.
- Select a press officer
Groups then:
- Develop a knowledge base about their person/group
- Choose a spokesperson
- Load them up with knowledge
- The other people in the groups become the Press gallery and make up some curly questions to ask other groups’ spokespeople
The Press Conference:
- Spokespeople are seated at the front of the class
- The press officer introduces the panel and chairs the press conference
- The press gallery ask the prepared questions (they need to identify themselves first)
- Spokespeople answer
Class discussion led by the press officer:
- What values positions (viewpoints) do all four people/groups share?
- What values positions do they differ about?
- How can they resolve these differences?
- What are possible consequences of these people having differing values positions about this issue?
Adapted from: Tapp, M. & Ward, C. Resourcing the Classroom Using Newspapers.
Newspapers in Education/INL
Follow Up:
- Agree to disagree:
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Viewpoints shared by these four people:
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Viewpoints these people do not agree about:
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The way forward - how can these people reach a compromise or agree to disagree?
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- Issue Decision Chart
Complete the graphic organiser.
This material has been produced by UNITEC Institute of Technology
under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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