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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. To maximize participation and use of the strategy, we provide discussion stems for the habit. identifying an idea worth highlighting, and.

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22 Strategies For Learning Through Conversation

TeachThought - Learn better.

You could always give simple rules, provide basic question or answer stems, and have students ‘debate’ one another–or you, the teacher, assuming a person, place, or idea. See also Sentence Stems for Higher-Level Discussion. Paideia Seminar. You can read more about the Paideia Seminar here.

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3 apps that lead to improved executive functioning skills

eSchool News

The skills that comprise executive functioning are not definitively agreed upon by educators and researchers. In K-12 students, whose executive functioning skills are not yet fully developed, regulation of these skills often falls on parents and educators. Psychologists Gerard A. Gioia, Peter K. Isquith, Steven C.

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The Power of Positive Climate and Culture

EdTechTeam

Classroom teachers can help facilitate that through the introduction of sentence stems, blogging, and Socratic seminars. With the opportunity to use positive sentence stems, students can change the climate and culture in their schools, and this should be celebrated! More on that here.). Goal Setting. Providing Support.

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Text Complexity? Helping Readers See The Whole Text

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by Grant Wiggins , Authentic Education. In the previous literacy posts in this series I identified a few guiding questions that stem from the research: Do students understand the real point of academic reading? Essential questions would frame cross-text debate and regular Socratic Seminars. (In Text Complexity?

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Text Complexity? Helping Readers See The Whole Text

TeachThought - Learn better.

by Grant Wiggins , Authentic Education. In the previous literacy posts in this series I identified a few guiding questions that stem from the research: Do students understand the real point of academic reading? Essential questions would frame cross-text debate and regular Socratic Seminars. (In Text Complexity?

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Week of February 27, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. Adrian won the coveted Outstanding Secondary Teacher for Victoria last year. Take a look at iPad’s possibilities for teaching and learning.