Teach Like Socrates: Guiding Socratic Dialogues and Discussions in the Classroom (Grades 7-12)

What is the Socratic Method? How can we bring the Socratic Method into the middle school and high school classroom? How does a teacher lead a Socratic discussion and develop the discussion skills of students? Using passages from the works of Plato and Xenophon, Teach Like Socrates answers each of these questions, clearly explaining the most famous and the most misunderstood teaching method in the world.

Unrivaled as a constructive vehicle for critical thinking and problem solving, the Socra...