GENERAL PYP
What is Primary Years Programme: PreK - 5th grade
There are 5 of these.
What is the number of Approaches to Learning that PYP promotes?
Thinking and following through with our obligations.
What is RESPONSIBILITY?
Working together to plan or refine teacher questions.
What is COLLABORATION?
When students are empowered to ask questions and make choices.
What are examples of student AGENCY?
Foundation of all IB. (10)
Ability to balance talking and listening time.
What is an example of collaboration- under Social Skills)?
Used to provoke and maintain interest, ideas, thinking.
What are provocations?
Focus is on the BIG IDEA rather than disconnected facts.
What is CONCEPTUAL teaching & learning?
Students collaborate to write and sign classroom agreement.
What is ownership? OR What is a key component of AGENCY?
The framework around which PYP is based.
What are the 6 Transdisciplinary Themes?
Listening to the perspective of other individuals and groups.
What is exchanging information descriptor under Communication Skills?
These provoke inquiry and investigations.
What are STUDENT QUESTIONS?
For example, structure and design; or interdependence and systems; even growth and characteristics.
What are broad, timeless and universal CONCEPTS?
Set up four corners for discussing any 4 item responses.
What is CHOICE? or What is AGENCY? :-)
Language and Assessment agreements.
What are the 2 policies we (all of us) collaborated to write?
Model the language "I wonder...?" or " I noticed...?"
What is an opportunity for students to learn and "try on" THINKING SKILLS?
Inquirers with a voice for learning.
What are STUDENT QUESTIONS?
Teachers designing a variety of learning engagements that promote the BIG IDEA. Teachers are reflective and flexible throughout the unit of inquiry.
What does CONCEPTUAL PLANNING look like?
What is AGENCY? or What is CHOICE?
Developing curious, open-minded, life-long learners.
What are some of the benefits of IB Primary Years Programme?
Supporting students with transitions by sharing a visual timetable.
What is teaching/modeling SELF-MANAGEMENT SKILLS?
Asking open-ended questions.
What is one opportunity teachers give students to practice THINKING SKILLS?
It is interesting, significant, challenging and relevant to learners.
Criteria for CONCEPTUAL units of inquiry or learning.
Selecting books at the library twice a month shar, then sharing (partners or class) why they did or did not like their book choice.
What is Agency? or What is CHOICE, OWNERSHIP, VOICE!