These free P4C resources, designed, tried and tested by experienced teachers, SAPERE trainers and children of all ages, make teaching and learning more engaging, more collaborative, more challenging and more thoughtful.
They include activities to get everyone involved in speaking and listening, and working as a community; tips and advice to help you create a thoughtful space, build a supportive and challenging community, and develop questioning; and stimuli for enquiries including stories, images, videos, poems and picture books, and some suggested one-hour lesson plans.
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What it says - a set of useful questions for facilitators to employ to help dialogue along and nudge conversation towards philosophical depth.
Become a more active facilitator by intervening with well-chosen questions.
Why not prepare yourself to use a few of these each time you facilitate? But use sparingly and with a light touch - not all 27 in one session!
This is a resource of tips and advice to help with facilitating dialogue. Facilitating philosophical dialogue can be tricky, especially if you’re new to it, but it easier and more effective if you take it step by step with a clear plan of what you’re aiming to do at each stage. Try following this simple 3 step sequence and see how you go.
What makes something treasure? What do and don't we value? Is one person's trash another one's treasure?
This primary P4C activity from SAPERE trainer Gina Parker (Mullarkey) of Little Chatters includes lots of ideas for developing the dialogue in the great outdoors and when you get back to the classroom. Suitable for the EYFS, KS1 and KS2 outdoor classroom.
This resource is linked to Gina's P4C in Practice online workshop on P4C and the Early Years.
Now, perhaps more than ever, we are all getting used to moving between different and changed learning environments.
This resource supports young people’s thinking about their own learning spaces – perhaps the pros and cons, the different skills, problems, opportunities and relationships.
It provides an opportunity for expressing thoughts, enabling voice and developing meta-cognition. The focus on learner experiences means engagement levels should be high.
Here, 2 good 2 bad is presented as a printable resource with space to jot down good and bad things, highlight a big idea or issue, and a space to write a challenging question.
It can be used by individuals or small groups and could be adapted for use on an interactive white board in a classroom or in video conferencing.
This resource aims to help you to get people disagreeing amiably about things that really matter to everyone. It focuses on managing agreeing and disagreeing about Covid 19 – the causes and our responses. It can quite easily be adapted and applied to other issues too, and you don't need P4C training to get going. Included is a set of printable opinion cards, line ends, and a sheet for gathering thoughts.
An introduction to P4C in primary schools.
A printable wall poster to support familiarisation and reflection on P4C questioning. What makes a question worth talking about? What sort of questions are good for starting philosophical dialogue? How can we assess the quality of our questions?
A printable wall poster to support understanding and evaluation of the community of enquiry. What philosophy moves help a dialogue to get into depth? What should participants be doing to help an enquiry progress? How can a community improve?