What Does Inquiry Look Like?
The PYP emphasizes the Inquiry Teaching Method, which attempts to improve questioning techniques, curiosity, independent work habits, cooperation, control over material covered, and interest in classroom units of study.
Inquiry Is:
- Exploring, wondering, and questioning
- Experimenting and playing with possibilities
- Collecting data and reporting findings
- Taking and defending a position
- Solving problems in a variety of ways
- Making and testing theories
- Clarifying existing ideas and reappraising perceptions of events
- Deepening understanding through the application of a concept
- Making connections between previous learning and current learning
- Making predictions and acting purposefully to see what happens
- Researching and seeking information