Inquiry Based Learning

Our educational philosophy incorporates an international perspective into an inquiry-based classroom. In an inquiry-based classroom, the student questions drive the learning. Our hands on and real life activities support an expanding awareness and respect of other cultures and perspectives. Our focus is on teaching the children how to learn, how to ask questions, how to research and how to present information. An inquiry-based approach is consistent with national standards and reflects what we know about how children learn by promoting their active involvement.

Active inquiry encourages children’s natural curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, and their desire to cooperate with others in work and play.. By fostering self-motivation in this way, children become inventive and independent thinkers who are confident in their ability to learn and to master challenges. Inquiry contributes to children's social development, as well as to their intellectual development. These activities not only foster collaboration among children, they also help develop language and literacy capacity.

With an inquiry approach to education, we support children's natural impulses to learn, an essential ingredient in every child's wholesome intellectual and cultural development.