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Five Amazing Socratic Seminar Texts for Middle & High School

By Charles Fischer

I have facilitated hundreds and hundreds of Socratic Seminars in grades 4-12, and here are lesson plans for five of my all-time favorite texts. These is the first in a series and each one will introduce more about facilitating Socratic

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English Language Arts, Balanced Literacy, Reading Strategies

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6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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GarageBand Authentic Assessment Scenarios

By Charles Fischer

Here are 10 authentic assessment scenarios for use with musical compositions made in a program like GarageBand. The scenarios pose realistic job projects from fictional companies. As an example: Hey all you musicians out there! Creative Genii™ is

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Music, Music Composition, Instrumental Music

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5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

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Five Elementary Socratic Seminar Texts

By Charles Fischer

This is the third in a series of amazing Socratic Seminar texts. This collection of five is geared toward upper elementary and middle school. The first text is a poem by Maya Angelou, "Life Doesn't Frighten Me." The second is a wonderful picture

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English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Close Reading

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3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

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Activities, Lesson

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Fantasy Adventure Writing Unit

By Charles Fischer

This is an epic fantasy adventure writing unit designed to generate a lot of student writing. The 17 mini-lessons can each create multiple days of writing, so this unit can last four to six weeks (or more). Highly involved or interested students

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Creative Writing, Gifted and Talented, Writing

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5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th

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Creative Writing Storyboard / Story Map

By Charles Fischer

This is a storyboard PowerPoint to help Middle School students write longer, better stories. Each stage has questions to guide the writing process. Print this as a handout and help students plan their stories from introducing their main characters

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English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Reading Strategies

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5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th

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PowerPoint Presentations

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Five Socratic Seminar Mentor Texts

By Charles Fischer

Here are five more amazing texts for Socratic Seminar! This is the second in a series and includes a lot more information about preparing a text for seminar and taking two different approaches with a text: critical thinking and creative thinking.

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English Language Arts, Visual Arts, Close Reading

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6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Socratic Seminar and Discussion Scoresheets

By Charles Fischer

Use these amazing scoresheets to track or tally student contributions to conversations. Use the data collected to help inform your teaching practice, to assist in writing narratives or report card comments, and also to more accurately and

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Life Skills, For All Subject Areas, Problem Solving

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3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, ...

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Assessment, Classroom Forms

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Six Components of Socratic Seminar

By Charles Fischer

This document outlines the six components of Socratic Seminar, which is a structured classroom practice that promotes critical and creative thinking, intellectual curiosity, collaboration, and scholarly habits of mind. The main goal of Socratic

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Critical Thinking, For All Subject Areas, Professional Development

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Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, ...

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Arabic Literature Unit

By Charles Fischer

This is an outline or syllabus for a five to ten week unit on Arabic Literature translated into English. This poetry, short story and novel unit was developed after a 4-week seminar at the University of Pennsylvania and a 2-week institute for

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English Language Arts, Literature

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8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

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Unit Plans, Thematic Unit Plans

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Creative Writing Storyboard / Story Map

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English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Reading Strategies

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5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th

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PowerPoint Presentations

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Socratic Seminar and the Common Core State Standards

By Charles Fischer

This document outlines the connections between the seven main goals for the new ELA & Literacy Common Core State Standards and the classroom practice known as Socratic Seminar. This is a wonderful resource for teachers to justify their use of

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Curriculum & Instruction, Educational Administration & Policy, For All Subject Areas

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Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, ...

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Research, Professional Documents, Centers

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Responsibility Inventory

By Charles Fischer

This is a series of reflective questions to help students think about their study and work habits. Assign some or all of them as a means of beginning a conversation in the class about how different people approach school tasks. Students could then

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For All Subject Areas, Study Skills

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4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Study Guides, Handouts, Classroom Forms

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Parent-Teacher Conference Letter

By Charles Fischer

Send this letter out ahead of conference times and really impress parents and guardians! There are example questions from you to them and from them back to you in order to maximize the conversation time you have at your parent-teacher conferences.

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For All Subject Areas

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PreK, Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th

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Classroom Forms, For Parents

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Simulation Passport and Visas

By Charles Fischer

These are templates for a passport, complete with six visa pages. Just add a photo for each student, some fun, global role-playing simulation curriculum and everyone will have a great time "traveling" the world! Use the passport for any number of

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For All Subject Areas

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4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Projects, Games

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have been working with students ever since I was a senior in high school in 1988 when I volunteered in a Kindergarten classroom. Since then, I have worked with a variety of students in numerous settings, including: gifted & talented students at College Academy and M.A.G.I.C., special needs students at Camp Northwood, rural students in Maine, inner-city students in Atlanta, and public and private school students in Massachusetts. I worked for 11 years at Sparhawk School, where I taught math, social studies, language arts, Socratic Seminar, and numerous elective classes to students in grades 4-12; mentored numerous teachers; was the Middle School Director for many years; and even served as Acting Headmaster for five months. I am now an education Consultant and can be contacted for professional development workshops, in-services, teacher coaching and much more. Visit my website for more: www.CharlesAmesFischer.com

MY TEACHING STYLE

Socratic Seminar, Multiple Intelligences, Project-based Learning, Naturalist Teaching, Critical & Creative Thinking, Shared Inquiry, thinking and writing skills across the curriculum

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Nominated 1999, 2001 and 2002 Disney's American Teacher Award Nominated 1998 for Massachusetts Teacher of the Year Award

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

M.S.Ed. University of Southern Maine (Teaching & Learning) American University in Cairo (Semester Abroad-History) B.A. Binghamton University (English Literature & Creative Writing)

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Besides attending numerous teacher workshops, I have participated in four international conferences in Israel: a 14-day Creativity Seminar, a 7-day Teamwork Seminar, a 7-day Leadership Seminar and an 8-day "First Steps" Early Childhood Education Seminar. In addition, I was specially selected to attend a 2-week Dar al-Islam Institute on Understanding and Teaching About Islam; a year-long Teachers as Writers Fellowship to work on a Socratic Seminar book; and a 4-week National Endowment for the Humanities Arabic Novel in Translation seminar at the University of Pennsylvania.