The Ultimate Socratic Seminar Bundle

This bundle of handouts, rubrics, and worksheets will give you everything you need in order to run transformational Socratic Seminars with your students. (Plus two free sample texts to use!).

This bundle includes:

1) A one-page introductory handout to Socratic Seminar

2) A lesson plan for the intro handout

3) A reproducible Seminar key for a teacher to fill out (and an example of a perfect one, as well as a guide for how to use it)

4) Question Stems for students to draw from to help them formulate good Seminar questions.

5) A 24x18 printable poster of Seminar Guidelines to hang in the classroom as reference

6) A differentiated "Written Response" sheet for reticent students who want to respond but are having difficulty doing so out loud

7) A Reflection sheet for student processing after a Socratic Seminar

8) Two thought-provoking texts to use as initial Socratic Seminar pieces

9) Resources on how to annotate text to prepare for Socratic Seminar

Transform students' critical text analysis and discussion skills by running Socratic Seminar (also known as Paideia and Harkness in some circles) with them. Not all discussion should go through the teacher - students need to be able to respond to each other. Both the physical layout of the classroom as well as the expectations for the Socratic Seminar will facilitate this. This bundle of documents will orient you and your students to know what to expect when beginning your Socratic Seminar journey. By the end of the year, you will have students who can critically analyze text, respond to one another analytically, disagree respectfully, and back up all their assertions with textual evidence.