Choose from a range of resources curated here as you implement inquiry processes that empower you and your students.
An Inquiry Reflection Cycle helps both teachers and students develop self-awareness, deepen understanding, improve skills, set goals, and make better decisions. It supports personal and professional growth through feedback, self-improvement, and emotional intelligence, strengthening resilience, stress management, and relationships. By turning experiences into learning, it transforms ‘doing’ into ‘understanding’. An adapted version of Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle is available for use in inquiry-based settings.
It’s important to have shared beliefs about assessment in your school. Use these provocative statements about assessment to generate discussion among colleagues as you work toward aligning your practices.
Developing and reviewing the Programme of Inquiry (POI) is an ongoing, collaborative process involving both teachers and students. A strong POI ensures a balance of subject-specific knowledge, skills and conceptual understandings, opportunities to develop the IB learner profile, and meaningful opportunities for student action. Because the POI sits at the heart of the PYP curriculum, schools are expected to review and refine it regularly. This includes strengthening central ideas, deepening conceptual connections, and ensuring alignment with scope and sequence documents or local and national curriculum requirements. To support this process, we have created a free POI review checklist to help PYP coordinators and leadership teams systematically review and strengthen their POI as they prepare for the next academic year.
To simplify your PYP planning process, we’ve created a free, easy-to-use unit planning template.
This presentation focuses on writing strong PYP central ideas, a starting point in the design of an impactful and international-minded Unit of Inquiry.
Download this presentation from our educational consultant to support your school's journey toward using digital tools for planning, teaching, learning, and reflecting.
The Learner Profile attributes contribute greatly to the development of global competences in any curriculum program. You can share digital Learner Profile stickers with students within Qridi Core or download a set here.
Specified Concepts form the backbone of inquiring learning in the PYP. To recognize progress and achievement in this important area, you can share digital stickers with students within Qridi Core or download a set here.