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Socratic Seminar has been one of my favourite discussion strategies for master's students. Many of my students have used the Socratic Seminar strategy with their upper intermediate and secondary students successfully, too. To prepare for our class # 3, I found a new website that has a detailed description of the strategy. What is even more interesting for me is that the strategy can be used to explore and discuss a piece of art work. However, in our case the "piece" to explore will be the introduction to the BC Arts curricula. And our focus questions will be
What are the benefits of arts education and where have you seen these benefits? and
What are creative risks and how can we create the conditions for them to occur? Where have we seen this happen?
Here are the basic expectations for you, the "participants".
Participants…
1.…must refer directly to the text whenever possible.
2.…can always “pass” when asked to speak.
3.…are not allowed to speak if unprepared
4..…must ask follow-up questions for clarification when they are confused.
5.…stay focused on the current conversation—make notes if something unrelated comes up so it can be discussed later.
6.…speak up when they have something to say—do not raise your hands.
7.…must always look at the speaker and listen carefully.
8.…must speak so all can hear.
9.…must talk to each other, not to the leader.
10.…must recognize that the quality of this discussion depends each of you individually—your participation makes the discussion a success.
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