The Power of the Socratic Classroom

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Synopsis

Do You Have 21st-Century Skills to Help Your Students Succeed? Do Your Students Have 21st-Century Skills to Think for Themselves? The Power of the Socratic Classroom has the answers you are looking for—answers that will supply the strategies to show students how to succeed into the future. A future that has unknown products, unidentified jobs, and unanticipated challenges. In Socratic Seminar, teachers shift to the role of facilitator, where they help their students develop the collaborative interpersonal skills, the critical and creative thinking skills, and the speaking and listening skills to face the upcoming challenges of the 21st century.

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Author Biography

Charles Fischer has taught in public and private schools in a variety of settings, from rural Maine to inner city Atlanta. In the past 20 years, he has worked with a wide range of students from 4th grade to AP English and has been nominated for Teacher of the Year four times. He has his Master’s degree in Teaching & Learning from the University of Southern Maine, and received his B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from Binghamton University. His latest book, The Power of the Socratic Classroom, has won four awards, including the NIEA Best Education Book. His first novel, Beyond Infinity, won a 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award bronze medal (YA fiction). His areas of expertise are Socratic Seminar, Active Listening, Inquiry, Teaching & Learning, and Critical & Creative Thinking. He is currently working on a book of poetry, a short story collection, and several novels.

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Levels of Listening

Overall, I I have found that there are seven levels to listening, though only five really show up in seminar. The sixth level is Appreciative Listening, which goes beyond empathy into true understanding. The seventh level is Deep Listening, that kind of listening that blends into meditation and mindfulness. These can all be taught and practiced by students!

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The Power of the Socratic Classroom

Introduce students to the idea that there are multiple levels to listening, roughly based on the amount of engagement or effort required. They range from the simple unconscious hearing of sounds, to the conscious decision to listen from another person’s perspective, known as empathetic listening. People can move between these levels, but they probably have listening habits primarily lodged in one of them.

Five Levels of Listening
1. Hearing: the automatic, passive process of registering noises and sounds. 2. Assumed Listening: the common misperception of listening. 3. Listening For: the conscious act of anticipating and focusing on speciﬁc sounds or ideas. 4. Active Listening: the deliberate action of attempting to understand the total message, complete with nuances, nonverbal communication, asking questions, etc. 5. Empathetic Listening: active and open-minded listening from another person’s perspective.

Five Levels of Listening

1. Hearing: the automatic, passive process of registering noises and sounds.

2. Assumed Listening: the common misperception of listening.

3. Listening For: the conscious act of anticipating and focusing on speciﬁc sounds or ideas.

4. Active Listening: the deliberate action of attempting to understand the total message, complete with nuances, nonverbal communication, asking questions, etc.

5. Empathetic Listening: active and open-minded listening from another person’s perspective.

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Charles Ames Fischer

The Power of the Socratic Classroom

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Author Biography

Author Insight

Levels of Listening

Book Excerpt

The Power of the Socratic Classroom

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