Bringing the Learner Profile Language into your Socratic Seminar

Have you thought about how goal setting could have an impact on your students for socratic seminar?  Consider how you could start with a class goal to improve your sessions. Here are a few goals generated by fifth grade students after their first seminar experience.

• Invite others to speak
• Stay on topic
• Justify your thinking

After students have worked together collaboratively, consider having students set personal goals that are tailored to their learning style.  Have them reflect beyond what they like about socratic seminar, but to consider how they can push themselves to get more out of the experience.

Here is a resource that will give some examples and may help you get started.  Don’t hesitate to ask if you want to work collaboratively with a coach!

Looking for some examples of how to get started?   Here are some lesson question starters and lesson ideas.