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CRITICAL THINKING VIA SOCRATIC QUESTIONING Improving your students’critical thinking skills

Sign-ups before 31

st Aug 2011 to enjoy the Early Bird Discount (5 more seats left)

or Group Discounts (Groups of 3 and above)

Date 6 Sep 2011 (Tues) Time 1000 to 1600 hrs

Venue The Training Centre@IP 10 Anson Road #29-03 International Plaza, Singapore 079903 (Beside Tanjong Pagar MRT)

Price (Inclusive of 2 tea breaks)

Regular S$280 / pax Early Bird S$220 / pax

Group of 3 or more S$160 / pax Call KK at 9731 2925 or

Email schools@red-dotseminars.com to register

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Workshop Outline:

Cooperative and Collaborative Learning Strategies

Dialectic and dialogic classroom interactions

Purposes of Questioning

Paul-Elder Critical Thinking framework

Socratic Questioning techniques

Role of the Teacher in a Socratic class-room

This workshop aims to guide teachers in designing cooperative learning strategies that use Socratic Questioning techniques to inculcate and develop critical thinking skills in their students in a holistic and participative classroom. Teachers will experience the Cooperative and Collaborative Learning strategies in practice as they learn about the Paul-Elder Critical Thinking framework and Socratic Questioning techniques and how to incorporate these into their lesson design and planning. They will also design a set of lesson plans for a topic relevant to their curriculum teaching, using the knowledge and skills learnt in the workshop.

What is it about?

This workshop will orient teachers to effective instructional strategies that leverage upon techniques of Socratic questioning and critical thinking to help develop students to become more analytic „reasoners‟.

Cooperative and Collaborative Learning have been found to be effective in helping students to take the initiative and be more independent in their learning. Teachers who incorporate Socratic Questioning into their lessons can also help these students learn to become critical thinkers.

The key take-away from this workshop will be strategies for improving your students critical thinking skills using Socratic questioning techniques.

Workshop Methodology:

The workshop activities comprise Cooperative and Collaborative Learning strategies, video-clips, pair, group and class discussions, group presentations and self reflection on the learning processes that have taken place during the workshop.

Who should attend?

School Staff Developers

Heads of Departments

Teachers from all subject areas

Why you should attend

Learn how to transform traditional passive classroom teaching, dominated by teacher talk to more active learning interactions through probing questioning.

Learn how students‟ thinking processes can be methodically analyzed and taken apart to identify gaps in reasoning and take action to address these gaps to improve the quality of their thinking approaches.

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Registration & Payment Details Please email the attached registration form to schools@red-dotseminars.com or fax (65) 6640 6375.

Payment by IFAAS or bank transfer: - Bank Account no : 7375 - 494 - 4213003709 - Vendor ID : 200722388E

Payment by crossed cheque made payable to “Red Dot Seminars Pte Ltd” and send to “10 Anson Road, #26-04, International Plaza, Singapore 079903”

Terms & Conditions of Registration

Registration is only confirmed upon full payment.

No cancellations are allowed but a substitute delegate is welcome to join at no charge IF name is provided 2 working days before seminar date, otherwise, an administrative fee of 10% on the fees payable will be charged.

Red Dot Seminars reserves the right to make changes to the content, venue, dates and time where necessary and would inform all participants 3 working days in advance.

Who is speaking? The session would be conducted by our main trainer Mrs Toh-Heng Hwee Leng. Hwee Leng has been actively involved actively involved in research and teaching in the areas of fostering collaborative knowledge building culture and designing of collaborative knowledge building environments. She is knowledgeable in the various aspects of the field of cooperative learning and had published her research papers in reputable journals and had presented at international conferences. She is working on a project basis with various Junior Colleges in Singapore. Hwee Leng lectured at National Institute of Education from 2001 to 2008 for different Academic Groups and also supervised for Practicum both PGDE (Sec) trainee teachers and Special Needs Officers trainees who support mainstream teachers teaching children with mild behavioural and learning disabilities in mainstream schools. She had also worked on a Learning Sciences Laboratory (LSL) research project studying Knowledge Building culture and use of Knowledge Forum software for the teaching of Science at Primary 3 level in a mainstream neighbourhood primary school researching the effects on academic achievement and social inclusion of pupils with mild behavioural and learning disabilities. Hwee Leng graduated with a Masters of Education from National Institute of Education (Singapore). Her other qualifications include a postgraduate diploma in education from the National Institute of Education (Singapore) and a Bachelor of Accountancy from National University of Singapore.