For me, a key part of Philosophy for Children is pupils creating their own questions. Question stems can help them come up with a greater breadth and depth of questions.
Sometimes you will probably provide your class with a question which you have thought up. However, if teachers always provide the questions, pupils miss out on a huge part of the thinking. Asking questions is such an important aspect of learning – let’s give our pupils time and opportunities to think up questions themselves.
Ways to keep everyone engaged and develop the community of enquiry
A detailed description including building, helping, sharing and working together
How to start a question, and think about whether or not it’s philosophical
How do they want to behave to become great 4C thinkers?
Reminders from six-year-olds about some of the benefits of P4C
Show your pupils that you are trying to understand their thinking
Get your pupils thinking and talking about resilience, barriers, beauty and more
Pupils feel that P4C helps them with everything from relationships to confidence to staying calm