Even though inquiry cycles help us involve students and lead them toward understanding, they are often linear formulas that may still feel like an imposition to some students. Perhaps we, as teachers, can come up with our own version, to engage students with a more open and flexible process, one that better suits the learner’s […]
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Chinese class and the programme of inquiry – How to make authentic connections
This article explains how a school in Hong Kong addresses transdisciplinary learning in Chinese class. It illustrates this process by making authentic connections with a year 5 unit under the transdisciplinary theme ‘How we express ourselves’.
Differentiation in Chinese teaching and learning
This article is available in Chinese and English. It gives an example of differentiation in a unit of inquiry in the teaching Chinese as an additional language classroom.
Assessing students’ artwork – Collaboration between visual arts and music
Based on an example from grade 5 How we organize ourselves unit of inquiry, a visual arts teacher describes how she and music teachers collaborate on assessment strategies tools.
The power of student reflection
This article shows fifth graders reflecting on learning experiences during their first unit of inquiry of the school year, How we express ourselves.
Exhibition differentiation
This article illustrates how differentiated instruction and assessment for a PYP exhibition can look like.