February 2025
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American Journal of Research
The more intense the discussion and the more participation by the students, the greater the effectiveness of learning in the process. This method contrasts the Lecture method by relying on the students to interact by discussing their ideas, experiences, and opinions about the information being covered. It is extremely useful in the classroom and on the range or track once a student can relate to the topic being covered either by gained knowledge, previous experience, or a similar model to resource. The guided discussion method is essentially the opposite of the lecture method. The goal is for the Coach to extract, from the students, their knowledge in such a way as to "guide" their ideas in the proper direction instead of "telling them" what they should know. This is a departure from a typical pedagogy into coaching and more importantly into education where a long-term and much broader idea of creating a mental model and value systems are accomplished.