Teaching Critical Thinking Using Seminars for 21st Century Literacy
Teaching Critical Thinking Using Seminars for 21st Century Literacy by Terry Roberts is published by Eye on Education in 2012 and spans 162 pages. This book presents a seminar approach designed to enhance students’ literacy skills, aligning with the Common Core State Standards. The authors, Terry Roberts and Laura Billings, illustrate how this method can deepen students’ engagement with texts while improving their speaking, listening, and writing abilities.
Readers will find practical guidance on implementing Paideia Seminars, where students engage in discussions about various texts and pose open-ended questions. This approach not only exposes students to increasingly complex materials but also fosters collaboration and independent meaning-making. The book includes valuable resources such as lesson plans, student samples, discussion ideas, and seminar plans covering topics in literature, social studies, and science, making it a comprehensive tool for educators aiming to enhance critical thinking in their classrooms.
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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
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