The Power of the Socratic Classroom: Students. Questions. Dialogue. Learning.

Product Description

Do You Have 21st-Century Skills to Help Your Students Succeed?
Do Your Students Have 21st-Century Skills to Think for Themselves?
Charles Ames Fischer has the answers you are looking for, answers that will supply the strategies to show students how to succeed into the future. A future that has unknown products, unidentified jobs, and unanticipated challenges.
Teachers struggle every day with activities to help their students think critically and discover their untapped creativity.
What does a teacher do to help students collaborate toward greater understandings?
What does a teacher do if students can t think through complex ideas and issues?
What does a teacher do if students don t actively listen and retain information?
What does a teacher do to help students become flexible and adaptable thinkers?
What does a teacher do if the students can t communicate effectively?
The Power of the Socratic Classroom is the ultimate guide that every K-12 teacher needs. Educators will discover practical tools and solutions, along with tips and techniques that can be immediately implemented.

Review

The Power of the Socratic Classroom is an unprecedented resource for classroom educators interested in developing a serious Socratic environment. Our schools need this now more than ever. –Michael Strong, Founder, The Academy of Thought and Industry

The Power of the Socratic Classroom is one of the most important education books ever written. What could be more vital than the development of clear, considered, bold and integrated thinking? Nothing. Within is an accessible comprehensive process that, over time, transmits a theory of knowledge for both teacher and student. –Louise Stilphen, Headmaster, Sparhawk School

About the Author

Charles Fischer has taught in public, charter and private schools in a variety of settings, from rural Maine to inner-city Atlanta to suburban Denver. For more than 20 years, he has worked with a wide range of students from kindergarten to AP English and has been nominated for a Teacher of the Year award four times. He has his Master s degree in Teaching & Learning from the University of Southern Maine, and received his B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from Binghamton University. Charles writes fiction and nonfiction, with forays into poetry. His first novel, Beyond Infinity, won a 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award bronze medal (YA fiction). His latest book, The Power of the Socratic Classroom, is the ultimate guidebook for using Socratic Seminar to promote critical and creative thinking in any K-12 classroom.