Young children are often called natural scientists. How a visitor—a caterpillar—to an early years classroom changed the dynamics of thinking in students and became a major instrument in developing scientific thinking among them.
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Student-led conferences: Trying a new approach
In this article you will read how a school changed their approach to facilitating student-led conferences to avoid students ‘freezing’.
Behind the scenes – Learning experiences for parents
This article describes opportunities for parents of the PYP students to gain first-hand knowledge about units of inquiry.
My first collaborative meeting
This article describes experiences from the first collaborative meeting based on listening, expressing, collaborating and implementing ideas.
A wealth of iPad Apps being powerful support for individual learning
This article is available in Chinese and English. It shares the practice of using two kinds of iPad Apps to support writing in Chinese for year one students.
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.