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.
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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.
Inquiry-based learning in the early years
This is an overview of what inspired an early years educator to accomplish a research project which explored how early years practitioners perceive inquiry-based learning when utilizing the PYP curriculum framework with very young learners in Hong Kong.
Developing and assessing approaches to learning in the Mandarin classroom
This article provides year 2 and 5 examples of modeling, developing and assessing approaches to learning in both stand alone and integrated inquiries in a Mandarin classroom.