Symposium:

 

Symposium:

 The symposium is defined as a teaching technique that serves as an excellent method for informing the audience, crystallizing their opinion and preparing them for arriving at decision regarding a particular issue or a topic.

The symposium is a discussion method in which different viewpoints on a single aspect of a topic is discussed. The symposium is a series of speeches on a single aspect of a topic. Topics are related to controversial issues in discipline and a single aspect of the topic is discussed.

 PURPOSE

·        To identify and deeply understand the specific aspect of a theme.

·        To develop the ability to arrive at a decision and provide judgement for a problem.

·        To develop values and feelings regarding a problem.

·        To provide understanding to the students or listeners on a theme or problem to specifically develop certain values and feelings.

·        To enable the listeners to form policies regarding a theme or a problem.

·        To investigate a problem from several points of view.

·        To boost students' abilities to speak in the group.

·        To encourage the students to study independently.

CHARACTERISTICS

·        Symposium provides a broad understanding of a topic or problem.

·        The listener is provided with an opportunity to make decisions about a problem.

·        This method is used in higher classes for a specific theme or a problem.

·        It develops a feeling of cooperation and adjustment.

·        The symposium technique helps in achieving the objectives of synthesis and evaluation.

·        It provides different views on the topic of the symposium.

How to Start ?

·        The chairman of the symposium introduces the topic and suggests something of its importance.

·        The experts/speakers of the symposium talk from 10 to 20 minutes.

·        The speech may be persuasive, argumentative, informative or evocative.

·        Each speech proceeds without interruption.

·        The speeches are followed by questions or comments from the audience.

MERITS

·        Symposium can be used to address a large group or class.

·        This method can be frequently used to present broad topics for discussion at conventions and organization of meetings.

·        In the symposium, the principle of organization is high as the speeches are prepared beforehand.

·        It gives a deeper insight into a topic.

·        It directs the students to continuous independent study.

DEMERITS :

·        Symposium does not provide adequate opportunities for all the students to participate actively.

·        It has limited audience participation.

·        The speech is limited to 10 to 20 minutes.

·        The Questions and Answer session is limited to 3 to 4 minutes.

·        It has the possibility of overlapping the subjects.

·        The chairman has no control over the speakers as they have full freedom to prepare the theme for discussion. There is a possibility of repetition of content.

·        The different aspects of the theme are not prepared separately.

·        The different aspects of the theme are not presented simultaneously, therefore the listeners are not able to understand the theme correctly.

·        The listeners remain passive in the symposium because they are not given an opportunity to seek clarification and questions in between the symposium.

Technically, a panel discussion consists of questions and answers only, and a symposium consists of a series of prepared speeches, followed by questions and answers. The chairman/moderator must monitor time and manage questions. If each participant is making a speech for a set period of time, he should signal the speakers at the one minute to go mark and at the stop mark

 

 


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