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🧠 #smithingifted Socratic Seminar: Step by Step
Beth Smith, M. Ed. | #smithingifted STEP 1: Choose a Question Worth Arguing About This is the most important step. Do not start with a question that has one obvious answer. Avoid: What did the character do? Instead, ask something like: Was the character’s decision justified? Is progress always an improvement? Which is more important:…
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Helping Gifted Learners Become Better Thinkers: SEL, Productive Struggle, and Real-World Problem Solving
By Beth Smith, M. Ed. | #smithingufted Gifted students need more than harder assignments. They need opportunities to understand how they think, recognize what happens when learning becomes difficult, manage frustration, make mistakes, consider different perspectives, and keep going when the answer is not immediately obvious. That is exactly what I wanted this curriculum to…