SYNTAX
Phase One: Orientation to the case
Teacher introduces materials
Teacher review facts
Phase Two: Identify the issues
Students synthesize facts into policy issues
Students select one policy issue for discussion
Students identify values and value conflicts
Students recognize underlying factual and definitional questions
Phase Three: Taking positions
Students articulate a position
Students state basis of position in terms of social value and consequences of decisions
Phase Four: Exploring the stance(s), patterns of argumentation
Establish the point at which the value is violated
Provide the desirable or undesirable consequences
Clarify one value conflict with analogies
Set priorities. Assert priority of one value over another
Phase Five: Refining and Qualifying the position
Students state positions and reasons for positions and examine number of similar situations
Students quality positions