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Designing Socratic Seminars to Ensure That All Students Can Participate

From The Creative Classroom with John Spencer · Hosted by John Spencer

2026-01-02

Episode summary

In this episode of The Creative Classroom with John Spencer: Socratic seminars are a democratic, student-centered, approach to class discussions. They can be used at any grade level with any subject area.

Original publisher description

Socratic seminars are a democratic, student-centered, approach to class discussions. They can be used at any grade level with any subject area. In a Socratic Seminar, members meet in a circle (or more likely an oval, because, let’s be real, circles are really hard to…