Peter Worley, co-founder of The Philosophy Foundation, presents 100 practical strategies, games and activities not only to help teachers improve their own questioning in the classroom, but also to allow pupils to develop an understanding of how they too can ask effective questions to develop their learning.
Peter Worley is the co-CEO and co-founder of The Philosophy Foundation. He has been questioning children in classrooms every week for the past 15 years using philosophy for children, and he runs talks, events and teacher training on questioning. Peter is also a Visiting Research Associate at King's College London and the president of SOPHIA, the European Foundation for the Advancement of Doing Philosophy with Children. Follow Peter on Twitter @the_if_man.
Peter Worley offers us a supercharged insight into questioning
strategies and mindsets. Teachers will appreciate this crisp
distillation of his most influential and practical ideas. This book
is a crash course in becoming a more deliberative and deft
facilitator of enquiry. -- Michelle Sowey, Director, The Philosophy
Club, Australia
If you were to merge the training of an academic philosopher with
the passion of our most inspirational teachers, then you'd create
Peter Worley. This, his latest creation, is quite simply a beauty
of a book: one that will guide and inspire you, and lead to ever
more engaging, thought-provoking experiences for your learners. --
James Nottingham, teacher, author, and creator of The Learning
Pit
The invention - for that is what it is - of the concept of open
questioning mindset (OQM) is a remarkable contribution, not just to
the pedagogy of philosophical inquiry with children but to good
pedagogy in any context. In an unassuming, but extremely elegant,
way, Peter Worley has matched the much more famous pedagogical
contribution, 'growth mindset', of Carol Dweck. Indeed, it could be
argued that a teacher who models and encourages OQM contributes
more directly to a child's intellectual growth than one who models
and encourages growth mindset. At any rate, a child might be more
likely to become a fully self-directed learner through developing
an OQM of her own, than merely developing a growth mindset. For it
could be through - and only through - the practice of OQM that one
might develop the capacity, in the metaphor of Plutarch, to 'light
the fire of learning' in and for oneself. -- Roger Sutcliffe,
Founding Member of SAPERE
I would like to become a really good questioner and develop a
questioning classroom. So, how can I learn to ask just the right
question? What strategies can I use? Look no further than Peter
Worley's new book on Questioning. Based on a wealth of
experience, this introduction to questions and questioning is a
cornucopia of ideas for the busy primary teacher, with the bonus of
teaching tips and further suggestions that you can return to time
and again. My advice to primary school teachers: get hold of this
book and have it at your fingertips as you plan your lessons and
work with your class. -- Dr Philip Cam, Adjunct Associate
Professor, University of New South Wales, and author of '20
Thinking Tools'
A great book [...] Questioning forms a huge part of my teacher
training across the UK. [There is] tons of stuff I'm going to use
in here for my own research and my own teacher training. -- Ross
Morrison McGill, @TeacherToolkit
This short text would be of value to any member of staff who is
interested in developing a deeper understanding of the ways that
questioning can activate children's thinking and imagination. --
Mary Mountstephen * SEN Magazine *
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