Three-step interview

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The three-step interview is a method of cooperative learning and is part of civic education . It is intended to encourage targeted questions and active listening . It is mainly described in school contexts.

The learners are divided into groups of three learners each.

  • In the first step, person A interviews person B, with person C making notes of the essential statements as an observer.
  • In the second step, person B interviews person C, with person A making notes of the essential statements as an observer.
  • In the third step, person C interviews person A, with person B making notes as an observer on the essential statements.

The time period for an interview must be determined in advance by the teacher. Then two groups of three are brought together. The six observers use their notes to report on the most important statements.

The method is also described in variants with two and four students.

This method can be used to determine the personal experiences of the learners in order to then build on them, for example in lessons or workshops .

Topics for the three-step interview are, for example, experiences in the area of democracy , justice , values and so on or reactions that a poem or the like triggered or conclusions that have emerged from a teaching unit .

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Learn by doing

Individual evidence

  1. Michael Klein-Landeck: 55 Methods English: simple, creative, motivating (5th to 13th grade) . Auer-Verlag, 2013, p. 32f
  2. Melanie Fröhling; Cathrin Rattey: The quick hour method training: 19 original lessons without any preparation (5th to 10th grade), Auer-Verlag, 2013, p. 60
  3. University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
  4. ^ Thuringian Institute for Teacher Training