Course Overview
The course is designed for teachers who want to advance their own facilitation skills and to support colleagues with less experience in P4C. Participants must have an Initial Practitioner certificate. Completion of the course and coursework will qualify you for a P4C Facilitator certificate.
Building on Level 1 training, P4C Advanced Course Level 2A advances your skills for higher quality enquiries and to support less-experienced colleagues so that will be able to:
- Facilitate P4C enquiries with more flexibility and reflection
- Enhance learning through critical, creative, caring and collaborative thinking
- Drive progress in philosophical enquiry at your school
Why Attend?
- For teachers, stronger facilitation skills will allow P4C to be used more flexibly in your teaching
- For students, deeper philosophical enquiry will enhance independent learning
- For head-teachers, teachers who can model P4C facilitation and support colleagues
What will it cover?
This two-day course:
- Examines the nature, purpose and methods of philosophical enquiry
- Shows how to choose and create materials to stimulate deeper philosophical thinking and dialogue
- Extends practices and tools for better philosophical thinking and facilitation
- Strengthens understanding of the theory and practice of critical, creative, caring and collaborative thinking
- Establishes criteria for planning and evaluating progress over a cycle of P4C enquiry, exercise and review
Any supplementary info
Completion of the course and coursework will qualify you for a P4C Facilitator certificate.
See P4C in practise at: https://vimeo.com/55009112
Who should attend?
You know you are ready for Level 2 when you have been using P4C regularly in the classroom for six months or more, your students are starting to ask higher order questions and to self-facilitate, and you want to start supporting colleagues who are less confident in P4C.
Cost: £300
Cost includes 2 training days, access to SAPERE accreditation, registration and course materials
Can be delivered as whole school training
Testimonials
Feedback from most recent P4C Level 2A training:
I will improve my questioning skills and work on inference.
There were lots of ideas to implement.
This will massively impact on my practice in school; I have far more ideas about practice and raising the profile of P4C in my school.
I will encourage our pupils to test/reason their views and thoughts to deepen thinking.
This training will improve my practice and develop children’s critical/creative thinking!