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All teaching teaches thinking. Even rote learning teaches remembering as well as individual facts. What this book encourages is simply teaching the thinking out loud drawing attention to the Thinking Moves students already use in school and in everyday life, so that they can become master thinkers, able to choose the right tool for the job in hand. In short, Thinking Moves A Z is a framework for developing metacognition. We have used the device of an A Z of 26 Thinking Moves for ease of learning, and because that turns out to be a Goldilocks level of detail specific enough to be directly useful, general enough to be flexible. So, for example, Connect is preferred to the broader relationship ; Infer is preferred to the more specific deduction . We have made sure they are all workable moves , such as thinking Ahead or Back, rather than longer-term dispositions or character traits, such as resilience or empathy. We wanted to avoid the response, That s a good idea. But what does it look like in practice? Instead, we wanted the moves to be practical already, so that self- contained examples can be readily found in students own thinking or expressed in a few sentences.

Roger Sutcliffe studied Philosophy and Modern Languages at Oxford, and later took an Open University degree in Maths and Educational Management. He did voluntary work in India before embarking on a teaching career at both junior and secondary schools. He trained in Philosophy for Children (P4C) with Matthew Lipman in New Jersey, and in Creative Thinking with Edward de Bono in Malta. He also qualified as a Rogerian (!) counsellor in UK. Roger was a founder member of SAPERE, the UK charity for promoting P4C, and is a former Chair and President. He is a former President of ICPIC, in which over 60 countries practising philosophy with children are represented. He has trained thousands of teachers, including a stint as an Associate Lecturer on the MA course in Teaching Philosophy at Heythrop. He co-authored The Philosophy Club , Newswise and The P4C Pocketbook. He is a director of Dialogue Works (www.dialogueworks.co.uk), which trains teachers in the UK and abroad, and of P4C.com, the online resource and collaboration service for P4C worldwide. --- Jason Buckley is the founder of The Philosophy Man. He has practised P4C with thousands of participants, from nursery age through to undergraduates and teachers. He is author of minibooks Pocket P4C, Thinkers Games and Philosophy Circles (with Tom). Over 17,000 teachers around the world receive his free weekly bulletin of resources, which you can sign up for at www.thephilosophyman.com He is also Director of Studies at GIFT, the UK s leading provider of enrichment courses for the most able children, and founder of Outspark, which runs DofE Expeditions. He lives on a narrowboat and enjoys caving and musical comedy improv. ---- Tom Bigglestone is Philosopher-at-Large at The Philosophy Man. He has taught at primary and secondary level in both state and independent schools, including as Head of Humanities. Over the past ten years he s got students thinking in Religious Studies, English, History and Geography, as well as on the sports field. He often writes despatches from the classroom for the Philosophyman bulletin. Tom is also particularly interested in how progress can be assessed in philosophy - the subject of his research for the Walter Hines-Page Scholarship in 2014.