Marketplace is an excellent technique to use when you want students to explore several different angles or ideas relating to a topic.
In this short film, Andrew Davids, a teacher from Thomas Tallis School, explains how to run a Marketplace activity.
This technique is a great way of using small group discussion to disseminate a large amount of information to the whole class. Making students ‘experts’ on one particular area of a topic means that they all have relevant information to contribute to the discussion. The technique allows for a wide range of activities to be used to assimilate the different viewpoints including creating posters, short films on mobile phones and short role plays.
Download PDF (327 Kb) presenting an overview of discussion techniques and more about marketplace activities.