Signature Pedagogies in the Disciplines: The Socratic Seminar

What does your teaching say about your discipline? What’s the teaching and learning DNA of your discipline? Come to these short, high-impact sessions where you will explore the signature pedagogies of the disciplines. Signature pedagogies are the distinctive teaching practices that shape how future professionals think, perform, and engage. How do you expect your students to think and act when they complete your course?

Each session includes a quick dive into one field’s signature pedagogy (e.g. studio critique, Socratic seminars, clinical rounds, case-based learning, lecture, to name a few), followed by a reflective prompt for participants to identify their own teaching patterns, values, and assumptions. Why should you attend?

• Discover what’s implicit in your practice
• Connect deep disciplinary knowledge to everyday teaching
• Learn how other fields approach learning and what you might borrow!

Whether you teach in fine arts, business, the sciences, humanities, or helping professions, this series invites you to reflect, connect, and evolve your practice.

In this session we will look at Clinical Rounds.

The clinical round is a high impact signature pedagogy in health studies (medicine, nursing) where students are apprenticed to working in the profession by engaging in complex analytical meetings about patient care. It’s both a pedagogical method and a dialogic learning process, where students are guided to apply their understanding of patients’ symptoms and treatment plans to update the care plan for patients.