AVID Teaching Strategy: Philosophical Chairs Classroom Resources

Teach your students an AVID core strategy - philosophical chairs.

The Philosophical Chairs resource includes:

• Slides for each step of the process

• Teacher instructional steps

• Handouts for students

  • pre-discussion form

  • discussion sentence frame card

  • rules of engagement

  • Reflection checklist and summary

• You have a choice to provide students with a handout that has the rules of engagement and discussion sentence frames on one sheet OR discussion sentence frames on a half sheet, then project the rules of engagement from the slides.

• Suggestions for source material prompt ideas

• A list of 35 central statements - not content specific. Can be used for all content areas.