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How Using Slack Can Improve Socratic Seminars

Edsurge

Our interest in academic discourse, and by extension Socratic seminars, stems from our work as Hollyhock fellows at Stanford’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching. The fellowship is a two-year program of professional development designed to combat the teacher retention problem, primarily in low-income schools.

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22 Strategies For Learning Through Conversation

TeachThought - Learn better.

Paideia Seminar. You can read more about the Paideia Seminar here. Socratic Seminar. You can read more here in What Is A Socratic Seminar? This could be used before a lesson as a kind of front-loading or after a lesson as an informal assessment or reinforcement and review. See more on that at number 11 below.).

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Flipgrid for every classroom

iLearn Technology

Students can create and share a book talk or chapter reflection, discuss current events, delve into a topic, engage in an online Socratic seminar around a given topic, collaborate, verbalize their learning process, etc. Flipgrid is also a great way to build a growth mindset and self-assessment.

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8 ways to stay ahead in lesson planning (without sacrificing student needs)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

See this document for links to example year long calendars by day (more detailed) or by week (general unit names only). Example 1: I almost always (except on assessment days) start with a number sense routine in math. Assessments on Fridays: I used to do a quiz in math every other Friday. Consider a weekly or biweekly pattern.

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8 ways to stay ahead in lesson planning (without sacrificing student needs)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

See this document for links to example year long calendars by day (more detailed) or by week (general unit names only). Example 1: I almost always (except on assessment days) start with a number sense routine in math. Assessments on Fridays: I used to do a quiz in math every other Friday. Consider a weekly or biweekly pattern.

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8 ways to stay ahead in lesson planning (without sacrificing student needs)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

See this document for links to example year long calendars by day (more detailed) or by week (general unit names only). Example 1: I almost always (except on assessment days) start with a number sense routine in math. Assessments on Fridays: I used to do a quiz in math every other Friday. Consider a weekly or biweekly pattern.

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