If your mechanic told you "I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder," would you thank him?
This afternoon a colleague feedback on her experiences at P4C training course with team. I am a firm believer that teachers should teach less, and students should teach more, hence the P4C aims and delivery model she presented interested me. It also triggered a very healthy and support debate that everyone around the table supported.
As I understood it P4C is a process that support the introduction of philosophic enquiry in children.
Step 1
Through the presentation of a stimulus (image, poem, quote, reflection, thunks) and then permitting thinking time. Time to delve and explore, to converse and share.
Step 2
The next step is to formulation of questions, questions that did not solely depend on having access to the stimulus but also that were open and contestable.
Step 3
Airing the questions and exploring the questions behind the question. Introducing children to the language of debate.
Step 4
Selection a common interest and voting. From my understanding, voting on which question to explore further. Before digging deeper and wider.
Something new to investigate next term.
Some where in the conversation P4C was connected to ‘thunks.’ Not worthy of another post, I thought these would service as a ‘lesson activation’ task. Quick, easy and there is even a website for quick fire thunks. Along with a new find, AnswerGarden. Briefly, AnswerGarden is an easy way to get feedback from a group, a form of digital brainstorming. Go on, I dare you. Have a go.
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