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Teaching Critical Thinking:
Using Seminars for 21st Century Literacy
ISBN: 9781596672086
Product Code: 7208-6
©2012 / 7 X 10 inches / 176 pages
About this Title
Help students meet today’s literacy demands with this new book from Terry Roberts and Laura Billings. The authors show how a seminar approach can lead students deeper into a text and improve their speaking, listening, and writing skills, as recommended by the Common Core State Standards.
Roberts and Billings provide easy-to-follow information on implementing Paideia Seminars, in which students discuss a text and ask open-ended questions about it. When teachers use this lesson format, students are exposed to a wide range of increasingly complex texts. They also learn how to collaborate, talk about, and reflect on what they’re reading, to make meaning independently and together. Seminars can be done in English class and across the curriculum, using social studies documents or math problems as the texts under discussion.
Teaching Critical Thinking also offers an array of practical resources:
- teacher lesson plans
- student samples
- a list of possible ideas and values for discussion
- a guide to asking good questions during a seminar
- six full seminar plans (including the texts), covering literature, social studies, and science topics
Contents
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Introduction: The Role of Thinking in Today's Schools
1. What Is Thinking? Can We Teach It in School?
2. Coming to Terms: Using Language to Describe Dialogue
3. The Paideia Seminar in Action
4. Introducing Speaking and Listening Skills
5. Mastering Speaking and Listening Skills
6. Developing the Mind Through Dialogue
7. Assessing the Quality of Thoughtful Dialogue
8. Socrates Teaching Thinking: A Secondary Seminar
Appendix A: Things Worth Talking About
Appendix B: Questions Worth Asking
Appendix C: Sample Seminar Texts and Plans
Bibliography
Glossary
Reviews Write a review
All people who work with students would benefit from the instructional techniques and strategies within. This book offers clear ways of implementing the seminar approach. —Jana M. Alig, Ph.D, Principal, Reynoldsburg City Schools
Related News & Media
Teaching Critical Thinking by Terry Roberts and Laura Billings was reviewed in the January 2012 edition of Library Bookwatch.
Teaching Critical Thinking: Using Seminars for 21st Century Literacy was reviewed in Book News Inc.
About the Author
Dr. Terry Roberts has been the director of the National Paideia Center since 1993. A former high school English teacher from Asheville, North Carolina, he is a practicing scholar of American Literature and Cultural Studies, with a strong penchant for the classics. He is fascinated by the social and intellectual power of dialogue to teach and to inspire.
Dr. Laura Billings has been the Associate Director of the National Paideia Center since 1998. She is a former secondary teacher from Jacksonville, Florida. Dr. Billings’ research and teaching focus on the socio-linguistic aspects of dialogue. In addition, she is deeply committed to holistic assessment practices.
