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PYP in the Primary YearsNovember 20th 2020

Our Vision & Mission

Our Vision“Inspiring Individuals”

Our MissionTo offer a challenging and dynamic international education that inspires and supports students in

developing the knowledge, skills, and characteristics to take responsible action for the betterment of their local

and global communities.

Core Values (QLBs)

Growth Mindset

What is Your Mindset?

Wonderings

Engagement/Activity 1

What are your wonderings?

What would you like to know about the PYP in the Primary

Years?

What are you wondering? Jot your thoughts down on post it

notes and keep them close!

The PYP Framework

Being Agentic

Student Agency

Teacher Agency

Parent Agency

Learner Profile

Wonderings


Your thoughts and predictions!

What Learner Profile attributes do you

think you will need to demonstrate during

this workshop?

What makes you say that? Jot your thoughts down on post it

notes and keep them close!

Transdisciplinary Programme

• 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

KIS Curriculum Programme of Inquiry (POI)

• Making authentic curricular connections

• Units of inquiry (UOI)• Mapping and bringing it all

together across the primary school

• Vertical and horizontal curriculum alignment

• Review and flexibility

Your thoughts and predictions


What are your thinking?

What subject areas do you think are

focused on?

What makes you say that?

Jot your thoughts down on the sheet provided!

KIS Curriculum (knowledge areas)

Written Curriculum Areas:

• Language• Math • Science• Social Studies• Personal, Social, Physical

Education(PE)• The Arts (Music, Visual Arts,

Drama)

KIS Curriculum (knowledge areas)

KIS Language Arts Curriculum document Strands:

• Listening and Speaking• Written Language Reading• Written Language Writing• Viewing and Presenting• Knowledge about Language

The KIS Curriculum (knowledge areas)

Speaking and

Listening


Written Language Reading


Written Language

Writing


Viewing and

Presenting


Knowledge about

Language

The PYP ElementsKey Concepts:

Cultivating a depth in thinking

Knowledge Areas:Learning about conceptual

understandings

Approaches to Learning: (Skills)Learning how to build

conceptual understandings

Action:Learner Agency

Form - What is it?Function: How does it work?Causation: Why is it as it is?Change: How is it transforming?Connection: How is it linked to other things?Perspective: What are the points of view?Responsibility: What are our obligations?

Math - Number; Data Handling; Measurement - Shape & Space; Pattern & FunctionLanguage - Oral (Listening & Speaking); Visal (View & Presenting); Written (Reading & Writing)PSPE - Identity; Active Living; InteractionsArts - Creating & Responding through Drama; Music; Dance; Visual ArtsScience & Social Studies - strands that directly reflect Units of Inquiry

● Self Management Skills: Organisation; States of Mind

● Social Skills: Positive interpersonal relationships & Collaboration; Social Emotional Intelligence

● Communication Skills: Exchanging information; Literacy; ICT

● Thinking Skills: Critical Thinking; Creative Thinking; Transfer; Reflection

● Research Skills: Information Literacy; Media Literacy; Ethical use of Media/Information

Understanding myself as a Learner

Knowing:● what I already know● what I will do next● how my thinking is

changing

Transferring and applying my understandings to new experiences

Wonderings


Parent Agency - what next?

Central Idea: School-Parent partnerships contribute to understanding your child as

a learner

Lines of Inquiry:• Types of School-Parent Partnerships• Learning and Teaching at KIS• Understanding the Learner (your child)

Your turn ...

Pulling it all together

Students demonstrate Agency when they:

● Influence and direct their own learning

● Make choices and voice their own opinions, take action.

● Ask questions and express wonderings

● Construct new meanings & communicate new understandings

● Participate in, and contribute to the learning community

Learning & Teaching:● Whole School POI - includes all

the Elements of the PYP; such as:

● Key Concepts - deeper thinking & Understanding

● Related Concepts - knowledge areas (Language, Math, Science, Social Studies, PSPE & Arts

● Approaches to Learning - skills● Learning through Inquiry● Reflection - Self & Peer based

on collaborative designed criteria● Evidence of Understanding -

Assessment

The Learning Community:● Supporting Learner Agency through Technology; design of

Learning Spaces and Student Leadership● Strategies on connecting all aspects of the Learner,

Learning & Teaching and the Learning Community to support a deep understanding of International Mindedness (IBLP)

Reflections


What are your new understandings?

How have your wonderings and questions been

answered?

What makes you say this? Refer to your initial questions and

wonderings at the beginning of this workshop (post it note recordings)

Your Questions

Exit Card

Biggest learning from today:

I used to think the PYP in the Primary Years was ……….BUT now I think the PYP in the Primary Years is ……..

Putting it all together

Your turn ...

Central Idea: 1. School-Parent partnerships impact the learning of the child2. School-Parent partnerships influence the learning of the child3. School-Parent partnerships relate to how the child sees themselves as a

learner4. School-Parent partnerships contribute to understanding your child as a

learner5. Working together in partnership impacts your child’s learning dispositions 6. Understanding the PYP impacts your child as a learner

Lines of Inquiry:enhance, develop, contribute to, reflect, interaction, mindsets, affects, require, purposeful, intentional, understanding,

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