Mandel Center Lunchtime Seminar

Do you hold discussions in your classroom?
Do you wonder what you, as the discussion leader, can do to make the discussions more participatory and focused on the burning questions that study of the text can help you address?
Do you wonder how you can engage your students in being more active discussion participants and leaders themselves?

Dr. Haroutunian-Gordon will speak about her work teaching teachers to lead interpretive discussions in their classrooms. To illustrate her approach, she will show video excerpts from data she collected for her latest book in which two novice classroom teachers learn how to engage their fourth grade students in a series of interpretive discussions. Haroutunian-Gordon will also lead an interpretive discussion for seminar participants and outline steps for preparing to leading such discussions.

Dr. Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon is a Professor and Director of the Master of Science in Education Program at Northwestern University. She is the author of the new book Learning to Teach Through Discussion: The Art of Turning the Soul (Yale Press, 2009).

Co-Sponsored by the Committee for the Support of Teaching

RSVP to jannadorfman@brandeis.edu by Tuesday, November 24.

Contact:
Janna Dorfman, jannadorfman@brandeis.edu or x62093