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The Dialogue Game Section:
Keys to Deeper Enjoyment
Each of these concepts comes from a different source, indicated in brackets. Each one represents a person or place where dialogue is honored and respected. We offer our thanks to each one, for without this diversity of concepts, our understanding of dialogue would be impoverished.
1. Three Kinds of Teaching and Learning [Paideia]
Didactic Instruction
Coaching for Skills
Socratic Seminars
2. Habits of Mind [Coalition of Essential Schools ]
Dialogue involves new "habits of mind"
3. The Spectrum of Conversation [The Invisible School]
Dialogue / Discussion / Debate
4. Rules for Playing The Dialogue Game [The Invisible School ]
A list of nine guidelines
5. The Seminar Cycle [The Invisible School ]
Text Preparation
Dialogue (on the Text)
Reflection (on the Dialogue)
This cycle helps the group improve in a continuous spiral
6. Socratic Questioning [Dennis Gray]
Genuine curiosity
Don't know the answer
Proceeds sequentially
Examines its own assumptions
7. Basic Conditions Necessary for Dialogue [David Bohm / Peter Senge ]
Suspend assumptions
Treat each other as colleagues
Facilitator who "holds the context of dialogue"
8. Intellectual Integrity [Michael Strong ]
What I know
What I don't know
What I'm not sure about
9. The Two Dimensions of Growth [The Invisible School ]
Dimension of Respect
Dimension of Inquiry
10. The Polarity Switch [The Invisible School ]
Yang to Yin
Yin to Yang
11. CRITEAK [Dennis Gray]
A Spectrum of Questioning Strategies
12. Bloom's Taxonomy [Benjamin Bloom]
A Hierarchy of Cognitive Skills
13. The Three Modes of Reasoning [Oscar Ichazo]
Analytical
Analogical
Empathetical
14. Being "In the Room" [The Invisible School]
The experience of those "in the room" is radically different from those not "in the room". This has implications for our practice and its assessment.
15. The Socratic Challenge [The Invisible School]
What are your educational principles, and how well do you live up to them?
What activities do you "assign" your students which you also engage in yourself?
16. A Seminar Asks a Question [Ed Maupin]
The more focussed the question, the more focussed the dialogue.
17. A Flash of Understanding [Plato]
Illuminates the subject at hand
18. Cultivating the Innate Intelligence [The Invisible School]
True dialogue develops the Voice of each of the participants.
These essential components of the Introductory and IntermediateTraining also support continuous growth in The Dialogue Game . Each one may be considered a sort of "text" on the process of seminars, in contrast to the written text which holds the content of a seminar.
Any or all of these are appropriate to be rendered as visual aids and posted around the room for repeated reference.
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