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.
Pupils focusing on a P4C stimulus
Handwritten question stems and concepts
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