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Give personal interests a clear inquiry path.
Dwight School HanoiHanoi, Vietnam
Your next task: planning an inquiry around a personal interest. Bring your class and programme context to PLAI™, then shape the draft around what you want learners to understand.
Choose a personal question, then make it investigable.
Dwight Hanoi emphasises personalised learning, community and a global vision. Use that context to let learners choose an inquiry question around a personal interest while keeping expectations for evidence and reflection clear.
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School context
Dwight School Hanoi
Curriculum IB PYP, MYP and DP described in the research
Topic focus planning an inquiry around a personal interest
What are you preparing next?
Give the learning goal a clear sequence.
Help learners turn an interest into a bounded question and a realistic evidence plan. Build towards that goal with a question, an activity and a chance to explain their thinking.
Your lesson prompt
Help me plan an activity for lower secondary learners about planning an inquiry around a personal interest. First ask for my year group, programme, objective and permitted materials. Include an opening question, a shared activity and an independent check. Help learners turn an interest into a bounded question and a realistic evidence plan. Do not invent school assessment criteria or lesson sequences.
Give learners room to explain.
Move from an initial response to an explanation you can inspect. Add support where it helps without giving away the answer.
Open the worksheet prompt
Draft a worksheet about planning an inquiry around a personal interest for my confirmed year group and objective. Include an opening question, a reasoning task and an independent check, with answers or teacher-check notes where appropriate. Use the material I supply and flag missing information rather than invent facts.
Refine the worksheet
Revise the worksheet with an optional first-step scaffold and space for an independent response. Preserve the goal: turn an interest into a bounded question and a realistic evidence plan. Keep the final question unscaffolded and do not supply the conclusion learners should reach themselves.
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Make the idea easier to discuss.
Plan a visual for planning an inquiry around a personal interest. Decide what it should clarify before considering how it should look.
Your visual prompt
Describe an accessible teaching visual about planning an inquiry around a personal interest. Ask for my class and objective first. Specify the layout, labels and a text alternative; do not rely on colour alone. Flag factual details for me to check. Do not depict identifiable pupils or invent an image of the school.
Keep the conversation going
A useful draft.
A better fit.
Tell PLAI™ what you want to change. Try one of these follow-ups with your draft, then check the result for your class.
Adjust the support
Add an optional vocabulary box and a sentence starter. Keep the main reasoning task and final independent question.
Go one step further
Add a follow-up question that asks learners to explain their reasoning in a new situation.
Questions about using PLAI™ at Dwight School Hanoi
What should I focus on when planning an inquiry around a personal interest?
Keep the focus on helping learners turn an interest into a bounded question and a realistic evidence plan. Ask for an explanation you can inspect, rather than accepting a completed answer as evidence of understanding.
What should I provide for this lower secondary task?
Bring the topic, current learning objective, year group and material you are permitted to use. For planning an inquiry around a personal interest, specify any criteria and support needs without sharing names or identifiable learner records.
How can I check understanding after adding support?
Offer a fresh question about planning an inquiry around a personal interest without the response frame. Check whether learners can turn an interest into a bounded question and a realistic evidence plan, using your own confirmed criteria.
Is this a lesson already taught by the school?
No. This is a suggested task to adapt for your class, not a statement about Dwight School Hanoi's lesson sequence or a tested PLAI™ result.
Is this an official school page?
No. This is an independent TopSchool page, not a school endorsement or partnership claim.
Does selecting my school give me school access?
No. Selecting a school or sharing a valid public link does not verify membership or grant access to private materials.
Bring your next teaching task.
Start with planning an inquiry around a personal interest, or bring a topic of your own. Keep your learning objective and professional judgement at the centre.
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