Adjunct Assistant Professor University of Southern California, Arizona
Short description: Socratic Seminar is a hallmark inquiry-based pedagogy traditionally used to stimulate interest, abstract thinking, and critical engagement in gifted learners. This session presents a model for reorienting the original tenets of Socratic Seminar through a social justice and global awareness lens. Socratic Seminar in the classroom becomes the catalyst for Service Learning, community action, and wisdom-based thinking in the world.
Learning Outcomes: Participants will:
Understand how justice-oriented Socratic Seminars with Service Learning extensions promote civic responsibility, social action, and wisdom-based thinking in gifted learners
Explore how to create learning experiences in their own classrooms that extend justice-oriented Socratic Seminars into authentic Service Learning projects that uncover and foster wisdom-based thinking
Broaden their conception of giftedness to include learners that display high levels of empathy, compassion, and global awareness both in and out of the classroom