Think like Socrates : using questions to invite wonder and empathy into the classroom, grades 4-12 / Shanna Peeples.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peeples, Shanna, author.

Series:

Corwin teaching essentials

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Questioning.

Children with social disabilities--Education.

Children with social disabilities.

Inquiry-based learning.

Classroom environment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin, a SAGE Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

The key to creating wonder and empathy in class? Questions! Socrates believed in the power of questions rather than the efficiency of lecturing his students. And yet, if we revere Socrates as one of the greatest teachers in history, how did we get so far away from his method of inquiry? Shanna Peeples, 2015 National Teacher of the Year, is here to flip the script and show you how teachers can create a welcoming and engaging atmosphere that encourages student questions and honors their experiences. This resource provides • Practical strategies for creating a classroom that runs on dialogue, curiosity, inquiry, and respect • An enhancement to your existing curriculum, regardless of content area or grade level, with examples and advice from award-winning teachers • Questions of increasing depth paired with sample texts to increase student engagement with your content • Step-by-step lessons for generating and using students’ questions as a way of assessing their thinking, and helping them guide that thinking into new learning aligned to state standards • Lesson extensions for English language learners, special education students, and gifted and talented students • Writing suggestions, in-class debate questions, and scoring rubrics for each content area • Recommended multimedia texts grouped by big questions • Detailed protocols for using inquiry with adults as a base for Professional Learning Communities, for guiding staff meetings, and for creating inquiry groups around common areas of practice Your students’ deepest wonderings can point toward learning experiences that allow them to practice the work of citizenship grounded in empathy. Let the questions begin!

Contents:

pt. I. Building a questioning classroom culture

pt. II. Curating questions for use in the content areas

pt. III. Applying inquiry to do real work in the real world

pt. IV. Using our own questions to transform our practice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781506391663

1506391664

9781506391632

150639163X

9781506391656

1506391656

9781506391625

1506391621

OCLC:

1260211375