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Bill of Rights Institute recently issued the following announcement.

Socratic Education Workshop: Education for Self-Governance Across the Curriculum

This two-day professional development workshop is best suited for Middle and High School Social Studies and English Language Arts teachers.

Free Lori Rech, Rachel Davison Humphries

Sat 6 Nov

6-7 November 2021

2 days, 12:00 PM – 12:00 PM MDT

Denver

Presented by Rachel Davison Humphries, Lori Rech

Free

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Description

The Bill of Rights Institute Socratic Seminars immerse teachers in the experience of Socratic practice, while exploring the tools and preparation that they can bring back to their own classrooms. In this two-day workshop, with a Dinner & Discussion in the evening between, participants will not only learn about, but also engage in Socratic practice to build confidence in dialogue-based pedagogy. 

Some highlights of the agenda include: 

• Examining and Partaking in Dialogue Activities
• How to support successful Socratic discussion in the classroom. 
• Building Class Culture, Selecting Texts, Cultivating Engagement 
• Developing Tools for Assessment and Evaluation, and Qualities of Effective Questioning and Good Reasoning

Participants will surface and practice identifying the skills students need for quality dialogues – logic, text analysis, question formation. A key objective of the workshop is to help build and develop confidence in dialogue-based instruction for teachers and help examine skills that can do the same for students.  Teachers will participate in Socratic circles, and perform a meta-analysis of the pedagogical approach, trace the academic studies that undergird it, and take away skills for conducting effective dialogue-based practice with their students. 

Original source can be found here.