About Socratic Method
 

Dear Dr. Wenger,

I would like to thank you for the privilege of meeting with you and instructing my staff in the techniques of the Modern Socratic Method. I have never seen so many teachers excited about teaching. These techniques have so enhanced their skills that they are eager to come in every day and try something new. To validate these efforts, the children are equally excited about coming to school, knowing that they will "learn” like they never have before. Imagine the situation, if you will—teachers and students excited about learning.

Through observation and teacher anecdotals, I am convinced that these methods wil produce a generation of “accelerated learners.”

The degree of comprehension, the choice of vocabulary, the depth and scope of answers received is simply unbelievable. We have pre-tested the children and will perform a post-test in June. I will send you the results of any empirical data that I accumulate.

Finally, after 37 years in the field of education, education makes sense. I hope to expand this program to other schools, districts, colleges and universities. These are solid teaching techniques that produce remarkable results.

We will continue in our mission to “educate” children. Hopefully, through creating a much better educated populace, we will be able to improve society as a whole.

Once again, thank you.

Sincerely,
Dennis J. Welka, Principal
St. Andrew’s Country Day School
Kenmore, New York

Win Wenger comments:

I might add that one of the things which kindled excitement, and helped lead to the comments in Mr. Welka’s second paragraph, was that each teacher was discovering “gifted kids in hiding,” in his or her classroom, wisdom and responses from children never deemed capable of such.

That is one of the really great things about buzz-grouping with “Dynamic Format” — it not only engages the students, it gives teachers their first chance to really observe their students in action — and that experience is quite an education for the teacher.

See the instructions here for how and why to buzz-group with Dynamic Format, yours freely to use. How would you like to have similar results happening in a school near you?