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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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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Fixed Questions

The problem with these is easy to understand: Someone else's generic, universal curriculum questions are unlikely to spark your curiosity and wonder. Fixed questions lack context and specificity. They are often anachronistic, or at least not fully relevant. They can be a great place to begin, but they can never replace genuine curiosity and wonder in the teacher and the students.

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The Power of the Socratic Classroom

Fixed questions are pre-written questions that you and your students know about ahead of time. The questions included in a purchased curriculum, the ones at the end of a textbook chapter, those in the teacher’s edition or study guide, are all examples. Like shallow questions, they have expected, traditional, or typical answers that are often found within a small section of text or a limited range of thinking.

There are several problems with fixed questions. The first is that, quite simply, they are someone else’s questions. They are not questions generated by you and your curiosity or your students and their wonderings. Therefore, they are not often fully relevant, timely, or interesting.

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Charles Ames Fischer

The Power of the Socratic Classroom

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The Power of the Socratic Classroom

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