AVID Mini Socratic Seminar Activity - Back to School / Social Contract BUNDLE
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Description
In this Mini Socratic Seminar students will have Socratic dialogue in small groups in order to discuss and plan for a social contract. By the end of this lesson your students will have a deep understanding of what it means to have a cooperative and inclusive environment for learning!
What's Included:
- Pre-Seminar graphic organizer
- Group and self evaluation
- Summary sheet
- definition slide
- purpose slide
- advantages slide
- preparation slide
- Mini Seminar directions slide
- 2 slides explaining roles and responsibilities
- slide for management tips
- Essential question slide
- 12 Socratic Seminar guiding questions for creating a positive classroom environment
Definition:
A Mini Socratic Seminar is a scholarly discussion of an essential question in which student opinions are shared and refined through dialogue with other students in small groups. In this mini format, the teacher or seminar leader facilitates the discussion for the small groups.
Purpose:
In a Socratic Seminar, participants seek to answer an essential question and gain deeper understanding of laws, ideas, issues, values, and/or principles presented through rigorous and thoughtful dialogue
Advantages:
- Teaches respect for diverse ideas, people, and practices
- Enhances students' knowledge
- Creates a community of inquiry
- Develops critical thinking, problem solving, speaking, and listening skills
- Clarifies one's ideas, ethics and values
- Maximizes student participation
- Encourages divergent thinking
Preparation:
- Share the essential question with students
- Provide time for all students to record the essential question and their personal thoughts/questions.
- Share the opening question which has no single “right” answer, is framed to generate dialogue leading to greater understanding of the ideas.
- The teacher may share all possible discussion questions with students before the seminar or the teacher may share only one question at a time.
Seminar:
- Students are placed in small groups or virtual break out rooms of 5-6 students.
- Teacher poses the essential question.
- Students respond to the question through note taking.
- Teacher chooses a Socratic Seminar leader for each group.
- The leader facilitates the seminar discussion by guiding group members to a deeper and clarified consideration of the ideas, a respect for varying points of view, and adherence to and respect for the seminar process.
- Students may pose new questions when the discussion is exhausted. New questions posed must relate to students’ ideas and contributions in response to the initial essential question.
- Students write a summary by answering the EQ after discussion.
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