Advanced Facilitation of Philosophical Enquiry
Advanced Facilitation of Philosophical Enquiry is further training for those who are interested, and particularly for our Specialist Philosophy Teachers to advance their practice and move up our internal levels.
This stage of our training can take place online or in-person, and is generally only available by invitation. The training takes participants through the following programme:
Day 1 – The Basics
Parmenides and Diogenes
Listening
Inclusionary moves
Concept Box
Day 2 – Expert Facilitation
Working with younger children
Making questions philosophical
First thoughts and emergent question approach
Two kinds of reason-giving
Dialectical and non-dialectical focus
Day 3 – Advanced Facilitation
The Menonic model
Teaching critical thinking skills
Extended Thinking Programme (Metacognition and CT Skills)
Mapper & PIES(S)
Day 4 – Advanced Facilitation
Extended Thinking Programme continued
Aporia & two kinds of confidence
Elenchus
Dialectical session plan
Hokey Kokey / Kokey Hokey
PaRDeS
Self-facilitation and coaching
Teaching arguments and hidden premises
Evaluativism and relativism
Advanced Facilitaion of Philosophical Enquiries Training includes one-to-one mentoring for our specialists to take them up a Level in Accreditation with us, please see the attached Facilitator Pathway for further details on this.
