Post-Seminar

 

Follow Up Discussions

• Allow the students to discuss their feelings regarding the process.
• Brainstorm other themes relevant to the text.

Follow Up Activities
Follow up activities could be a quick write about new thoughts, ideas, or understandings they've reached about the text.

• Ask the students to share what they learned and/or observed in a journal or notebook.
• Assign a writing assignment such as: letter to the editor, poem, reflection, compare/contrast essay etc..

For the next Seminar perhaps...

• Have a student(s) select the piece of text that will be considered.
• Encourage self or peer evaluation.
• Invite other students or parents in to the classroom to observe the process

Best Practices: Instructional Strategies & Techniques: Socratic Seminar. Retrieved September 25, 2007, from Regina Public Schools and Saskatchewan Learning Web site:

Can a regular paper and pencil text generate the same motivation as authentic assessment? Can you grasp the total understanding and synthesis of information from a few written sentences? Like the teacher in the video demonstrating the Socratic Seminar, you will know that your students have successfully mastered the task at hand based on their performance.