IBPYP
Concepts and Knowledge
Skills and Methodology
International Baccalaureate
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The International Baccalaureate program for children ages 3-10 school.
What is International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme?
100
Form, function, causation, change, connection, perspective, responsibility, reflection
What are the PYP Key Concepts?
100
What students are able to do.
What is a skill?
100
There are 3,554 worldwide.
How many IB schools are in the world? (3/12/13)
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There are six of these per grade level. They each have a central idea, key concepts, related concepts and lines of inquiry.
What are units of inquiry?
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This is a group of examples: Conflict, cooperation, interdependence, balance, systems, cycles, order, evolution, equilibrium, energy, matter, pattern, interaction, justice, prejudice, relationships, power, emotions, oppression, organization, government, law, identity, values, culture, influence, supply/demand, place value, facts, standard units, graphs, summary, genera, voice, fluency, symbolism, allegory, etc.
What are subject concepts (related concepts in PYP)
200
This group is an essential element of PYP: Communication, research, thinking, social, self-management.
What are PYP Transdisciplinary Skills (soon to be renamed Approaches to Learning)?
200
There are 1,017 of these IB programs in the world.
What is the Primary Years Programme?
300
A matrix of six units of inquiry, one for each transdisciplinary theme, at each grade level from K - 5th grade.
What is the POI (or Programme of Inquiry)?
300
This is a group of examples: The American Revolution, Famous Mainers, the Eastern seaboard, explorers of North America, the Civil Rights Movement
What is factual knowledge?
300
This is group of examples: Reading visual data, creating a timeline, writing an organized paragraph, persuading through writing, estimating, orientating, reading maps, analyzing data, hypothesizing, graphing, etc.
What are subject skills?
300
"The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment. These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right."
What is the IB Mission Statement?
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Who we are, Where we are in place and time, How we express ourselves, How the world works, How we organize ourselves, Sharing the planet
What are the PYP transdisciplinary themes?
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Something that requires understanding, these are timeless, universal, broad and abstract. They can be defined as a mental construct which frames a set of examples sharing common attributes.
What are concepts?
400
This is an approach to teaching which requires involvement that leads to understanding. The learner develops skills and attitudes that permit him/her to seek resolutions to questions and issues while he/she constructs new knowledge.
What is inquiry?
400
Inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-takers, balanced, reflective
What is the IB Learner Profile?
500
Concepts, knowledge, skills, attitudes and action
What are the five essential elements of the PYP?
500
Something that requires knowing information, data or facts. This information is specific to a place, time, culture or situation.
What is factual knowledge?
500
In PYP this model of teaching and learning is based on themes of global significance that transcend the confines of the traditional subject areas and frame the learning.
What is the transdisciplinary model of teaching and learning?
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The IB educational model expects the community to display this value by exploring the commonalities of human experience. This is accomplished by building awareness of individual, local, national and world issues and reflecting on diversity and multiple perspectives.
What is international-mindedness?
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