| Professional Development by The National Paideia Center is provided to a world-wide network of educators through training, technical support, and publications.
Paideia teachers use three instructional techniques:
- didactic instruction for increasing students’ factual recall,
- intellectual coaching for developing students’ literacy skills, and
- seminar dialogue to strengthen students’ conceptual understanding.
Sample Paideia Seminar Dialogue plans:
The newest versions of Paideia Seminar Dialogue plans include expanded pre- and post-seminar process and content sections that emphasize the potential for teaching a full range of literacy and thinking skills. See the examples below:
In Paideia classrooms, all students are involved in a wide range of academic work and social practices needed to achieve the following objectives:
- to become good citizens,
- to earn a decent living,
- and to lead a good life.
Paideia classrooms feature seminar dialogue to teach critical and creative thinking. Paideia schools are built on the idea that public schooling is preparation for becoming educated over the course of one’s life time.
The National Paideia Center is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with the University of North Carolina since 1988. The Center supports a world-wide network of educators through training, technical support, and publications.
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2009 Conference Location Announced!
Read Thinking is Literarcy, Literacy Thinking.
 EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
by Terry Roberts and
Laura Billings. Copyright
2008 by Assn for
Supervision & Curriculum
Development.
Reproduced with permission
of Assn for Supervision &
Curriculum Development.
Paideia International Partner Press Release  Stockholm University
recently published a
new dissertation
Socrates in the Classroom:
Rationales and Effects of Philosophizing
with Children by Ann S. Pihlgren, Ph.D,
former principal of the Mimer Freinet Academy
in Norrtalje, Sweden. Mimer Academy is a
Paideia International Partner.
Paideia Video
Visit with students an and teachers engaged in Paideia Seminar dialogue and Paideia Projects.
Research
Doctoral Dissertation
submitted by Ann S. Philgren, Ph.D.
Mimer Freinet Academy
Norrtalje, Sweden
2008
Socrates in the Classroom: Rationales and Effects of Philosophizing with Children
Doctoral Dissertation
submitted by Donna J. Robinson,Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts
Lowell, Massachusetts
2006
The Paideia Seminar: Moving Reading Comprehension from Transaction to Transformation
Our Vision
The National Paideia Center improves the ability of adults and students to think and communicate so that each might become a good citizen of the world, earn a decent livelihood, and lead a good life. Our Vision is that The National Paideia Center will become a campus of learning dedicated to the exploration of ideas in support for active lifelong learning.
Seminar Dialogue
The Paideia Seminar is a collaborative, intellectual dialogue facilitated by open ended questions about a text.
Sample Paideia Seminar
Dialogue Plans
(Expanded Version)
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