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How can you teach young students to think independently, analyze different sources, create an argument in history and express it in speech and in writing? The Classical Historian’s DVD seminar, Teaching the Socratic Discussion in History, created by John De Gree, shows parents and teachers a simple, accessible approach for reading, understanding, and teaching history with the Socratic method. Teaching the Socratic Discussion in History is based on a simple premise: to understand history and engage students, we must ask open-ended questions and have access to honest history texts. We therefore promote oral discussion, as opposed to fill-in-the-blank homework, as the best way to cultivate a love of history at every level. This approach greatly reduces the demands on the teacher, who need not be an expert, but is free instead to assume the role of fellow learner beside his or her students.
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ASPIRING HISTORIANS Some home school parents and beginning history teachers feel like they do not know enough history to teach and they want a quick way to catch up on all that history they never learned in school. We recommend you start with
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