How KIPP Teachers Learn to Teach Critical ThinkingProfessional development at KIPP King includes setting up "fishbowl" classroom configurations, assigning student roles, and other techniques for facilitating successful Socratic discussions. More to this story.
Professional development at KIPP King includes setting up "fishbowl" classroom configurations, assigning student roles, and other techniques for facilitating successful Socratic discussions. More to this story.
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Release Date: 08/25/2011
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- Zachary Fink
Producer
- Mariko Nobori
Editor
- Alyssa Fedele
Associate Producer
- Doug Keely
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- Zachary Fink
Video Programming Producer
- Amy Erin Borovoy
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- The George Lucas Educational Foundation
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Re: Tried and true
David B. Cohen: Thank you for your comment. This video is part of a full feature on KIPP King Collegiate High School, a school we selected for the ways they are using critical thinking to close the achievement gap. Our goal with this video was to provide practical suggestions for teachers who are perhaps not as familiar with how to facilitate Socratic discussions in their classroom. This school provides PD for their staff specifically in this area with very clear techniques that we wanted to share.
I agree the comment above.
I agree the comment above. This is very much like another video and article posted with Edutopia. Sounds like a commercial for KIPP more than an honest exploration of critical thinking. Lots of great public school do this too. Nothing special about KIPP here.
Tried and true
I don't understand why this video mentions KIPP over and over. There's nothing about the school, the teachers, the training, the techniques, or the students that is particularly noteworthy. Socratic seminars and fishbowls are well known and widely used techniques, and have been for decades. This video just shows teachers talking about those techniques and providing some explanations. For teachers who haven't tried these techniques, it could be moderately useful video. These people could have been almost any teachers in almost any secondary school, but every 30 seconds or so, we're reminded, these are KIPP teachers in a KIPP school. What's the big deal?