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Title: Socratic Seminars for Critical Thinking


1
Socratic Seminars for Critical Thinking
  • Rachel H. Rice
  • James Madison High School
  • SDUSD

2
The Method Behind the Madness
  • Why Socratic Seminars?
  • Promotes student generated thought
  • Promotes active learning
  • Promotes critical thinking

3
What are the roles of a Socratic Seminar?
  • Teacher
  • Select text
  • Generate evaluative questions of text
  • Monitor the progress of the Socratic Seminar and
    of the students responses

4
What are the roles of a Socratic Seminar?
  • Student
  • Read the selected text
  • Review and prepare for the questions presented by
    the teacher
  • Make notations of questions that arise
  • Participate in the discussion

5
How do we proceed?
  • Speak to your peers with respect and promote
    thinking in others.
  • Use evidence to support your claims.
  • Speak truthfully and from the heart.
  • Speak as the spirit moves you.

6
The Parts of the Socratic Seminar
  • Initial reaction to the text
  • Presentation and discussion of questions
  • I learned.
  • Introspective reflection

7
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
  • How does the historical context of the document
    affect your understanding of its meaning?
  • What did Lincoln mean when he said, The world
    will little note, nor long remember what we say
    here, but it can never forget what they did here.
    It is for us the living and dead, who struggled
    here, have consecrated it, far above our poor
    power to add or detract.?

8
The Gettysburg Address Reflection
  • I became aware of
  • I still question

9
Closure
  • Questions?
  • rrice_at_sandi.net
  • Evaluation
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