Abstract
Education is base for every development agenda. Exerting effort on the education development is one of crucial issues throughout the world. Improving education quality in Ethiopia is currently needs applying different student centered teaching learning methods with aim of achieving worthwhile output. The objective of this study is to identify the major factors that affect the implementation of students’ group discussion, to examine the attitude of students towards the implementation of group discussion and to suggest possible solutions that can improve students’ group discussion in the course value chain management in agriculture. Group discussion is one of methods to improve students learning. Graduating class students in Wolaita Sodo University under the College of Agriculture, department of Rural Development and Agricultural Extension on the course Value Chain Management in Agriculture is used to test the teacher and students performance on the use of group discussion. Large class size, low interest of some students on group learning, dominance of group discussion by high achievers, seating arrangement style, shortage of resources are some of major factors that affect the implementation of students’ group discussion. For the specific subject under study, the result indicated that, the subject matter instructor performing well in the student centered learning by using group work, pair work and assignment. The possible solutions to improve the group learning are applying gallery walk teaching for large class size, providing awareness on group learning importance by some experts and responsible bodies, providing teaching materials before the lesson in groups and if possible individually, motivating the students to participate in the class room and provide the students various tasks and let them do by themselves first and then group discussion as per need and also arrange tutorial classes. Keywords: Group Learning, Teaching Methods, Value Chain Management DOI : 10.7176/JEP/10-16-03 Publication date :June 30 th 2019
Highlights
Education is a mechanism by which human beings gain knowledge, skills, abilities, values, etc. (Wondimu, 2007)
The following important points are advisable to group discussion; Train students in group discussion with short simple tasks, Have students practice moving into and out of the group quickly, group member can be set together prior to the activity to make the transition from the whole class activity to students group and back again with little description., Give students a clear and specific task to accomplish in the group, Specify the period of time students are allowed to accomplish tasks, Require that students produce a product as a result of the group discussion and support them in feedback
This chapter mainly deals with the analysis, interpretation and presentation of the collected data
Summary
Education is a mechanism by which human beings gain knowledge, skills, abilities, values, etc. (Wondimu, 2007). Education is a mechanism by which human beings gain knowledge, skills, abilities, values, etc. It is considered as the chief means of acquiring the essential knowledge and skills of life. Education helps people to acquire skills that make their lives more interesting and enjoyable. Education has become increasingly more important than ever before. This is because education enables human being to learn the skills they need for every activity such as a newspaper, writing letters or managing their money (Ellington H. et al, 2005)
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