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Socrates believed that questioning was the only defensible form of teaching.

Socrates believed that questioning was the only defensible form of teaching. Critical Thinking + Socratic Questioning + Student Discourse = Academic Rigor. Critical Thinking provides the conceptual tools for understanding how the mind functions (in it’s pursuit of meaning and truth).

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Socrates believed that questioning was the only defensible form of teaching.

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  1. Socrates believed that questioning was the only defensible form of teaching.

  2. Critical Thinking + Socratic Questioning + Student Discourse = Academic Rigor • Critical Thinking provides the conceptual tools for understanding how the mind functions (in it’s pursuit of meaning and truth). • Socratic Questioning employs those tools in framing questions essential to the pursuit of meaning and truth.

  3. Why Use Socratic Seminars? What’s Their Purpose? • Deeply probe student thinking both cognitively and meta-cognitively • Help students begin to distinguish what they know or understand from what they don’t know or understand • Assists students in intellectual discourse, questioning and CRITICAL & CREATIVE THINKING • Analysis of a difficult concept and/or text • Allows for the communication of ideas among peers • It’s standards-based (Yes, it is!) • Knows no boundaries among disciplines

  4. Socratic Questioning… • Raises relevant, real world issues • Probes beneath the surface of things • Pursues problematic areas of thought • Help students discover the structure of their own thought • Helps students develop sensitivity to clarity, accuracy, relevance and depth • Helps students arrive at judgments through their own reasoning • Helps students analyze their thinking as well as the perspectives of others

  5. The Art of Socratic Questioning You will need to design questions that… • require reasoning, but with more than one arguable answer. • require the best answer within a range of possibility. • encompass conflicting systems. • examine ideas, concepts and values (not facts) • engage critical thinking. • invite multiple perspectives. • allow learners to pursue truth(s).

  6. Socratic Seminars Foster & Enhance… • Critical & Creative Thinking • Inquiry • Communication Skills – verbal and nonverbal • Etiquette of Critical Discourse • Self Reflection • Goals Design for Self & Learning Community

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