What is the focus of the workshop?
To develop the following understandings:
• Individual teachers’ beliefs and experiences related to teaching affect the way they perform.
• International-mindedness is encompassed in the IB Learner Profile. It is further developed by practices under PYP standards.
• 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
• At the heart of the curriculum cycle is the learner constructing meaning.
• The five essential elements resonate throughout the entire curriculum
• The PYP curriculum is concept-driven and transdisciplinary.
• Teaching and learning takes place when a range and balance of teaching strategies are selected appropriately to meet particular learning needs.
• Assessment is integral to planning, teaching and learning, and needs to be varied and purposeful
• Responsibility for learning is shared within a learning community through collaborative and reflective planning
• The programme of inquiry and the subject scope and sequences are components of the curriculum, which when used together, define a coherent curriculum.
• Units of inquiry must illuminate the transdisciplinary theme under which they are placed.
• There is a range of IB professional development available to support the implementation of the PYP.