Student Led Discussion Strategy

My goal is to reflect on or write about at least one teaching strategy each week.
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/high-school-literature-lesson-plan

Pinwheel Discussions
I attached the link to the Teaching Channel video that showed this strategy in action.

Description:
In the video, all students were expected to read three articles that were related. The classroom was set up with four desks in the center of the room and the rest in a pinwheel formation (see image below). The students would work in their small groups of 4 to ask and answer text dependent questions.

Each student is assigned to one article to focus on. There will be a "provocateur" (name change for younger grades) in each small group. Each roll will meet with like rolls in the class to begin to discuss the text. The "provocateur" group will begin to construct text dependent questions that will fuel the discussions. After like groups meet to plan, the discussion begins.

The teacher's roll is simply to facilitate discussion. They also can keep tallies of different agreed upon discussion tactics (using text proof, bringing new ideas to the table, building off of another student's ideas... etc).

The video was taken of a high school classroom, however this technique can be easily modified for lower grade levels.

I like how all students are expected to be involved during the discussion unlike a teacher led discussion. Each students needs to listen as the 4 students talk in the center of the room so that they can bring new ideas to the table. Students lead the conversation and it gives them ownership over their own learning.