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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Annotating Your Annotations

Many teachers already have students annotate a text. The idea, of course, is to slow one's thinking down and "talk to the text." There are many systems for annotating and nearly all of them seem to do a functional job. But a whole other level of depth and critical thinking can be reached by annotating one's annotations. Yeah, that's a lot of thinking! The idea here is to monitor one's notes. Do I balance questions, thoughts and statements? How often do I flag a "word of interest" (vocabulary word)? How many times do I cite a different text? Do I have a balance of character and plot insights? Etc. The idea is to see if your thought process is holistic or not, repetitive or not.

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The Power of the Socratic Classroom

For some students, annotating is remarkably easy and they will go on to generate all kinds of connections and interesting ideas. It’s fun for some students because they get to write what they think and know, and not what a textbook or other source wants them to think. For many students, though, annotating is quite challenging and won’t produce much. Reading is already a complicated process, especially with a difficult text. Adding another level of thought process onto the reading, by requiring students to generate annotations, makes the task even more difficult.

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Charles Ames Fischer

The Power of the Socratic Classroom

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Annotating Your Annotations

Book Excerpt

The Power of the Socratic Classroom

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