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Why Philosophical Mentoring for Educators?
Do you find your students and yourself uninspired by the
requirements put on your teaching? Too often, under the
pressures of standardized tests and national or departmental
curricula, our students receive information, instead of discovering
it. Too seldom taught us in school, it's a form of mentor-teaching
excellence that, if we're lucky, we pick up along the way.
A classroom dynamic, lessons, and tests that privilege rational
enquiry over rote learning and memorization bring students to a
lasting knowledge about the subject you teach AND the critical
thinking skills they will need in every class (not to mention that
infamous school of hard knocks!).
requirements put on your teaching? Too often, under the
pressures of standardized tests and national or departmental
curricula, our students receive information, instead of discovering
it. Too seldom taught us in school, it's a form of mentor-teaching
excellence that, if we're lucky, we pick up along the way.
A classroom dynamic, lessons, and tests that privilege rational
enquiry over rote learning and memorization bring students to a
lasting knowledge about the subject you teach AND the critical
thinking skills they will need in every class (not to mention that
infamous school of hard knocks!).
As educators, you already know that no matter what discipline
you teach, you are also guiding students through the tricky
waters of responsibility, critical reasoning, and creative
problem-solving -- just to name a few!
But how do you inject your classroom with the life of lessons
designed to get your students excited about the subject and
thinking about how it applies to more than next week's test and
their end-of-semester grade? How can you pass on the
excitement of the question to your students?
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What Are You Really Teaching?
The SocratiCoach mentor will sit down with you individually or with
your educational group/organization to help you identify the best
applications of rational enquiry to your particular discipline and
teaching level, including brainstorming radically effective lessons,
assignments, projects, and/or testing options specific to the
needs of you, your department and school, and your students.
your educational group/organization to help you identify the best
applications of rational enquiry to your particular discipline and
teaching level, including brainstorming radically effective lessons,
assignments, projects, and/or testing options specific to the
needs of you, your department and school, and your students.
Bring Reason Back to the Classroom
Philosophy for Any Discipline
Put Passion Back in the Profession
Technically, Philosophy is simply the art (or science, depending
upon your leaning!) of rational enquiry. Its Greek origin,
philosophia, literally means "love of knowledge, or wisdom." And it
is concerned with four major kinds of questions that apply in
varying degrees to all disciplines:
upon your leaning!) of rational enquiry. Its Greek origin,
philosophia, literally means "love of knowledge, or wisdom." And it
is concerned with four major kinds of questions that apply in
varying degrees to all disciplines:
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