I went to the workshop "Inquiry-based learning" by Kath Murdoch with other PYP teachers.
"Being PYP school is not the guarantee of being an inquiry-based school"
This is by Kath and it's shocking to me.
Today we talked about how do inquiry teacher look like. One of the 10 practices of the inquiry teacher is "think big". If we are here to teach the student living in the future, what are we teaching now? it is important to understand the contents/skills/topics of course, but, as PYP teachers we need to guide students to build their own foundation of learning at primary age. You may not be able to see the student improvement in the subject in a year. But since you are doing for sure the inquiry based teaching, the students should be learning by their learning style/pace. if you do not trust your students who would?
I would put "time" as an element for inquiry teacher. Even I can say "patience" instead. We need to wait more until the inquiry comes out from the students. We always tend to hurry.
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