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Socratic Seminars in Action in the Secondary ELA Classroom

Socratic Seminars are scholarly discussions based around a central question in which student opinions are shared, proven, refuted, and refined through dialogue with other students. In the ELA high school classroom, I like to use Socratic Formats for whole class discussion towards the end of units after students have been exposed to a text(s) and have had the opportunity to work with it for a while. In my classroom, I use the term text to describe anything that students can be exposed to in order to contemplate, analyze, and interpret an outside view. Texts can be anything written, spoken, or watched. Common Core stresses the importance of students learning through different types of text, so as a way of differentiating, I try to include audios and visuals with most texts we analyze in class. Seminars can take one of two formats. The questions that drive instruction can be instructor created or they can be student created. I find that there are conditions in which questions created by me are important, especially during exam review when students are preparing for short answer or essay responses. In those cases, I typically use a study guide to drive instruction, and students are given some time to work with the guide before discussing with their peers. However, the downside of instructor created questions is that it limits the discussion to be around what the teacher wants students to take from the text(s), and can impact the self-discovery that students can come to through student created questions and student-led discussions. As a result, I find student created questions are far more rewarding in the long run, since students drive the direction of the discussion. It is really hard to find a student-friendly instructional video that breaks down the setup of Socratic Seminars as I facilitate them in my classroom with concrete examples of what the seminar should look like. So, I created an instructional video for students. This video is meant to be an introduction to Socratic Seminar classroom discussions for students as well as teachers who are thinking of implementing them into their own classrooms. Note: This is a Socratic Seminar from September, and by March and April, students are expected to use the text as the focal point for almost everything they say. So, looking at the break down of question types, I slowly raise the requirement for the level of complexity and analysis expected from students as we move through the school year.