Workshop Objectives

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDINGS 

 

1. Individual teachers’ beliefs and experiences related to teaching affect the way they perform.  

2. International-mindedness is encompassed in the IB Learner Profile. It is further developed by practices under PYP standards.

3. In the PYP, the school’s curriculum includes all those student activities, academic and non-academic, for which the school takes responsibility, since they all have an impact on student learning.

4. At the heart of the curriculum cycle is the learner.

5. The five essential elements resonate throughout the entire curriculum.

6. The PYP curriculum is concept-driven and transdisciplinary.

7. Teaching and learning takes place when a range and balance of teaching strategies are selected appropriately to meet particular learning needs.

8. Assessment is integral to planning, teaching and learning, and needs to be varied and purposeful.

9. Responsibility for learning is shared within a learning community through collaborative and reflective planning.

10. The programme of inquiry and the subject scope and sequences are components of the curriculum, which when used together, define a coherent curriculum.

11. Units of inquiry must illuminate the transdisciplinary theme under which they are placed.

12. There is a range of IB professional development available to support the implementation of the PYP.