The Power of the Socratic Classroom

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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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Listening For...

Active Listening is one of the most important skills for a good collaborative seminar. Often, the best ideas come from building on what the participants say in a chain of ideas. Without quality listening, the chain of ideas is rarely relevant and often feels more like talking for the sake of talking. Listening For is good practice for students and can be a great exercise or series of activities for the pre-seminar. One example that is often used in meditation practices is to ring a bell or a gong and have students listen for the very last moment of sound. Exit tickets are a great way to help students Listen For something they heard from a peer.

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The Power of the Socratic Classroom

When we are listening to other people, we often have two basic choices: We can listen for what’s right and good, or we can listen for what’s wrong and bad. In discussions and Socratic Seminars, many participants have the habit of immediately disagreeing with an idea, even though that idea might not have come to fruition. Instead, students should withhold thoughts as long as possible: “I’m not sure I am going to end up agreeing with this, but I will keep listening.”

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Charles Ames Fischer

The Power of the Socratic Classroom

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Listening For...

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The Power of the Socratic Classroom

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