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’.
Archive | Approaches to teaching
A new curriculum and a new way of thinking
In this article a new PYP teacher shares reflection on embracing and teaching in the PYP framework.
How environments can shape inquiry and learning in the early years
This article is available in Spanish and English. It shares an inquiry into the way that the physical space influences teaching and learning with young children. It describes what provoked the inquiry, the questions that were asked, the research done and how the action was taken to re-design learning environments to better support child friendly […]
Exhibition differentiation
This article illustrates how differentiated instruction and assessment for a PYP exhibition can look like.
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.
The ascendancy of conceptual learning
This article talks about how looking through a conceptual lens allows a learner to integrate thinking between conceptual and factual levels.