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Return to: ETAP 623 Fall 2020 (Zhang) | Fostering Critical Thinking Skills using the Socratic Method
About Me
Jonah Schumacher
I am pursuing the MS in CDIT to gain the skills to design and implement courses related to philosophy, to help make the discipline more accessible to students and teachers. After completing the CDIT program, I hope to pursue philosophy at the graduate level and plan on putting my instructional design skills to good use.
Outside of those goals, I am an avid runner, reader, and traveler. At the moment, I am preemptively training for a marathon in the spring, on my 6th of 8 novels written by Thomas Pynchon, and working on applications for philosophy graduate programs abroad to hopefully attend next fall.
My Topic/Purpose
The purpose of this course is to introduce teachers to the Socratic Method as a way to help foster critical thinking in the classroom.
Topics that will be covered in this course will include:
1) Why it is valuable to teach using the Socratic Method
2) An overview of the three parts of the Socratic Method
3) An example of the Socratic Method in action
4) Suggestions on how to implement the Socratic Method in various classroom settings
Needs Assessment
Analysis of the Learner and Context
Performance Objectives
Those who complete the course will be able to:
1) Recognize the utility of the Socratic Method
2) Be able to identify the components that make up the Socratic Method
3) Understand how to implement a form of the Socratic Method in their classes
Course-level objectives