For this Socratic Seminar, we were told to come up with two claims: one related to what we’ve been learning about in class, and one about any academically-minded topic we choose. We had a paper to organize our claims and ideas in order to discuss our claims in the Socratic Seminar. We then sat in a circle and had conversations related to our claims. Everyone in the circle is to participate in the conversations as half the grade.
This assignment helped me develop Communication skills. We had to keep the conversation going and keep it relatively intellectual. I had to figure out how to get my point across in a clean way. I believe I did pretty well at conversing with my group, we were able to continue the conversation until the time was up and always left off on a pretty good note. However if I could do this seminar over again I would work on summarizing my point better. I think I did fine but sometimes I talk a little longer than I might need to. |