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Advice on facilitation from Jason Buckley, using an extended metaphor about typography.
This is a facilitation technique for distributing discussion amongst large groups of children.
One of the difficulties of P4Cing, is remembering the sorts of moves you can make as a facilitator at the same time as attending to a live enquiry. This (over?) extended metaphor may help those moves come to mind more readily.
This is an activity to close a session with so that the ideas they discuss don’t remain too abstract or slip from their mind once the session ends.
These warm-up games help shyer students ease into group discussion. They all work by starting off in pairs then building up to fours, eightss and eventually the whole class.
This facilitation technique encourages students to express themselves clearly and think critically about ideas they may take for granted as obvious. It involves some philosophy-in-role as an ignorant robot who is yet to be programmed with some essential concepts.
P4C is partly about creating the conditions for a different style of communicating that empowers students to give their opinions and respond to one another. Moving tables out of the way to form a nice neat circle is often the standard operating procedure. But there are other ways...
A resource from Jason Buckley on how to facilitate for reasons first.
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