Think Like Socrates: Using Questions to Invite Wonder and Empathy Into the Classroom, Grades 4-12 (Corwin Teaching Essentials) - Softcover

Peeples, Shanna F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506391648 ISBN 13: 9781506391649

Publisher: Corwin, 2018

Synopsis

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!

About this title

About the Author

Shanna Peeples, the 2015 National Teacher of the Year, took the road less travelled on the way to her classroom. She worked as a disc jockey, medical assistant, and journalist before teaching, as she says, chose her.

Shanna taught middle and high school English in low-income schools in Amarillo, Texas for 14 years. Because Amarillo is a resettlement area for refugees, students as diverse as the Karen people of Myanmar to the Bantu people of Somalia, make up classes in her former assignment at Palo Duro High School.

Currently, Shanna is a doctoral candidate in Education Leadership at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She most recently served as the ELA curriculum specialist for her district where she designed professional development experiences and co-created curriculum with more than 200 secondary English Language Arts teachers.

A former reporter for the Amarillo Globe-News, Shanna won awards for reporting on health issues, schools, and music criticism.

Shanna is a board member of the Longview Foundation, a 2016 National Education Association Global Learning Fellow, and a member of the Global Teacher Prize Academy.

From the Back Cover

Socrates believed in the power of questions rather than lecturing his students. But how did we get so far away from his method of inquiry? Shanna Peeples, 2015 National Teacher of the Year, will show you how teachers can create an engaging atmosphere that encourages student questions and honors their experiences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1506391648
• ISBN 13: 9781506391649
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304