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In this area, you will find a collection of practical ideas on all aspects of doing philosophy with children such as: helping pupils create questions, pushing for depth in dialogue and planning for progression. These tried-and-tested ideas will not only give you food for thought as you plan your p4c classes and curricula, they will also help you to make your p4c teaching more varied and effective.
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Evaluate with comprehensive strategies
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By Steve Williams
A set of comprehensive strategies for formative evaluation
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Use focused dialogues and activities
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By Steve Williams
Get the best out of p4c by using a combination of open enquiry and focused activities
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Create concept activities
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By Steve Williams
Understand concept activities and create your own
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By Steve Williams
A selection of useful strategies to sustain dialogue
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By Steve Williams
A strategy that enable a balance between teacher preparation and pupils choice
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By Steve Williams
A brief but comprehensive guide and a video of p4c in action
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Use games: Fruit Salad
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By Jason Buckley
A game to mix up a group and introduce philosophical questions.
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By Nick Chandley
A simple framework for those beginning to use communities of enquiry .
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Use Games: Keep the Question Going
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By Peter Brazier
An enjoyable and useful game for the collaborative generation (and consideration) of questions.
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By Steve Williams
An article about using children's own discussions as stimuli and about a distinction between spontaneous and deliberate philosophising.
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By Steve Williams
Why and how to help pupils get more control over their thinking by using a the language of reasoning. Practical advice for use in P4C and across the curriculum.
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By Steve Williams
The method of a 'panel discussion' provides a very useful and flexible discussion format. It also helps you work with very large groups.
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Theme ideas to stimulate questioning
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By Sara Stanley
An extract from a session using 'The Last Noo-Noo' by Jill Murphy. They use an interesting way of theming ideas
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By Sara Stanley
Examples of skills and progression of skills expected from the majority of pupils in the Foundation Stage over the course of a year's participation in P4C.
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Topic:EvaluateFree samples
Use The believing and doubting game
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By Steve Williams
A game, or activity, to develop critical thinking in group dialogue, reading and writing.
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By Steve Williams
Steve Williams introduces some general strategies to guide writing for thinking and thinking for writing .
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By Steve Williams
An introduction to writing for ideas and writing for ideas plus expression.
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By Steve Williams
An introduction to i-writing - writing for ideas.
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By Steve Williams
How freewriting and p4c can work together.
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By Steve Williams
A handy chart to evaluate philosophical dialogue.
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Use Games: One Hand Clapping
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By Jason Buckley
A simple circle game to focus a group before an enquiry.
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Use Small Talk before Big Talk
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By Jason Buckley
Ideas for directed "small talk" to make small group discussions more productive.
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Use Activity Structures: Thumbs up!
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By Steve Williams
A simple but flexible session structure that can be adapted for use in many contexts.
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Use Games: Thinking Moves Booklet
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By Karin Murris
An e-book with 14 activities to enliven your P4C sessions. There are short thinking games, ideas for role plays and routines you can adapt for mini-enquiries and follow-ups.
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