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Primary Years Programme workshop materials requirements - Category 1

Please review the materials requirements for the PYP category 1 workshops listed below:

 

For more information about the goals & objectives of the workshop categories, please review the IB Global Workshop Architecture. 

An introduction to the IB standards for administrators new to the PYP (1A)

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • School mission statement
  • Any relevant school policies

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • IB programme standard and practices
  • A basis for practice
  • The lB Learner Profile booklet
  • General regulations
  • Rules for IB World Schools - PYP
  • Action plan template for candidate schools
  • Towards a continuum of international education
  • Developing a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry

 

An introduction to the PYP curriculum model (1B)

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • School mission statement
  • Any relevant school policies

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • IB programme standard and practices
  • A basis for practice
  • The lB Learner Profile booklet
  • Developing a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry

 

Making the PYP happen in the classroom

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • The school’s programme of inquiry
  • A completed unit planner on which the participant has collaborated

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • IB programme standards and practices
  • The learner profile booklet
  • Developing a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry
  • A basis for practice

 

Primary Years Programme workshop materials requirements - Category 2

Please review the materials requirements for the category 2 workshops listed below:

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For more information about the goals & objectives of the workshop categories, please review the IB Global Workshop Architecture. 

 

The Written Curriculum

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • A completed unit planner on which the participant has collaborated
  • Samples of differentiated tasks and/or assessments
  • A resource you have used that promotes or supports inquiry-based teaching and learning

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • A basis for practice
  • IB programme standard and practices
  • Developing a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry

 

Collaborative Planning

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • The school’s programme of Inquiry
  • A completed unit planner on which the participant has collaborated
  • Any policies/agreements/school documents relating to planning

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • IB programme standard and practices
  • Developing a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry

 

Assessment

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • The school's programme of inquiry.
  • A completed unit planner on which the participant has collaborated
  • A copy of your school’s essential agreements on assessment and/or your school’s assessment policy.
  • Samples of recording and reporting processes and procedures from your school
  • A professional resource for assessment that you have found useful

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • IB programme standard and practices
  • Other IB materials that might inform the workshop (e.g. mathematics and language scope and sequences)

Pedagogical Leadership

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • The school’s programme of inquiry
  • Copies of recent IB visit reports
  • The school’s action plan and/or strategic plan
  • A resource you have used that has supported you in your leadership role

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • PYP coordinator’s handbook
  • IB programme standards and practices
  • Learning in a language other than mother tongue in IB programmes

 

Teaching and learning

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • A completed unit planner on which the participant has collaborated
  • Samples of differentiated tasks and/or assessments
  • A resource you have used that promotes or supports inquiry-based teaching and learning

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • A basis for practice
  • IB programme standard and practices
  • Developing a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry

 

Action

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • Examples/evidence of student-initiated action in their schools
  • Related PYP documentation from their schools: (ie mission statement, programme of inquiry, grade level unit of inquiry planners, etc...)

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • The lB Learner Profile booklet
  • IB programme standard and practices
  • Towards a continuum of international education
  • A basis for practice
  • Exhibition guidelines

 

The Exhibition

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • Evidence of student/teacher process and products from their schools’ exhibitions.

Current version of the following IB documents

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • The PYP Exhibition Guidelines
  • IB Standards and practices
  • Developing a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry
  • DP Academic honesty guidance booklet and ethical practices poster available at http://occ.ibo.org/ibis/occ/spec/malpr.cfm?subject=malpr

 

Primary Years Programme workshop materials requirements - Category 3

Please review the materials requirements for the category 3 workshops listed below:

For more information about the goals & objectives of the workshop categories, please review the IB Global Workshop Architecture. 

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Teachers as Researchers in the PYP

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

Current version of the following IB documents:

 

The Role of Language in the PYP

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • The school’s programme of inquiry
  • A completed unit planner on which the participant has collaborated
  • The school’s language policy, or language policy related documents (if available)

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • PYP language scope and sequence
  • IB programme standards and practices
  • Guidelines for developing a language policy
  • Learning in a language other than mother tongue in IB programmes

 

Reading and Writing through Inquiry in the PYP

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • A completed unit planner on which the participant has collaborated
  • The school’s programme of inquiry
  • Resources that would be useful to share with fellow participants regarding reading/writing (including children’s literature, professional resources, samples of student work)

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • PYP language scope and sequence
  • IB programme standards and practices

 

The Role of Science and Social Studies in the PYP

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • A completed unit planner on which the participant has collaborated
  • The school's programme of inquiry
  • Any professional resources that you might want to share

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • PYP science scope and sequence
  • PYP social studies scope and sequence
  • Developing a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry
  • IB standards and practices

 

The Role of Mathematics in the PYP

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • The school’s programme of inquiry
  • A completed unit planner on which the participant has collaborated
  • Any professional resources you might want to share

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP Happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • PYP mathematics scope and sequence
  • IB programme standards and practices

 

The Role of Arts in the PYP

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • The school’s programme of inquiry
  • A completed unit planner on which the participant has collaborated

Any professional resources you want to share Arts manipulatives (as requested from the workshop leader in consultation with the regional office)

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • PYP arts scope and sequence
  • IB programme standards and practices
  • Role of arts in the Primary Years Programme

 

The Role of Physical Education in the PYP

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • A completed unit planner on which the participant has collaborated
  • The school’s programme of inquiry
  • A resource you have used that promotes or supports inquiry-based teaching and learning in the area of physical education

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • PSPE scope and sequence
  • IB programme standards and practices
  • Role of physical education in the Primary Years Programme

 

3-5 Year Olds in the PYP

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • A completed unit planner on which the participant has collaborated
  • The school's programme of inquiry
  • Any professional resources you might want to share, including photographs of learning spaces or environments

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • IB programme standards and practices
  • PYP mathematics scope and sequence
  • PYP language scope and sequence
  • PYP PSPE scope and sequence
  • Developing a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry

Personal, physical and social education - Wellbeing

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • A completed unit planner on which the participant has collaborated
  • The school's programme of inquiry
  • Any professional resources you might want to share

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • PYP PSPE scope and sequence
  • IB programme standards and practices
  • IB Learner Profile booklet
  • Role of physical education in the Primary Years Programme

 

Beyond symbolism – First peoples’ knowledge (two people, many thoughts)

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

 

Concept based learning

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • Samples of a programme of inquiry (POI) and unit planners
  • Regional or national curriculum documents if applicable

Current version of the following IB document:

    • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education IB programme standards and practices
    • PYP mathematics scope and sequence
    • PYP language scope and sequence
    • Any one additional scope and sequence document

Play-based learning

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • Programme of inquiry from Early Years
  • Units of inquiry
  • Any documentation you have used to assess children’s understandings

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: A curriculum framework for international primary education
  • PYP Language and Mathematics scope and sequence documents

Science

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • Samples of POI and unit planners
  • Regional or national science curriculum documents if relevant
  • Copy of ‘Low cost equipment for science and technology education’ available from: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0010/001023/102321eb.pdf
  • Prepare and bring any one of these UNESCO experiments for a mini-science show.

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • The Primary Years Programme as a model of transdisciplinary learning
  • Developing a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry
  • Making the PYP happen: A curriculum framework for international primary education
  • PYP Science and Mathematics scope and sequence documents
  • Any other PYP scope and sequence documents of relevance to participants

Sustainability as international mindedness

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Developing a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry
  • The Primary Years Programme as a model for transdisciplinary learning
  • Making the PYP Happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • The Learner Profile Booklet
  • A continuum of International learning
  • Science and Social studies scope and sequence
  • Other documents that you think may be relevant to you programme (Basis of Practice, CAS documentation)

Transdisciplinary learning

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • Relevant state or national curriculum documents
  • Programme of inquiry
  • Any related curriculum mapping documents from their school.

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • The Primary Years Programme as a model of transdisciplinary learning
  • Developing a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry
  • Making the PYP happen: A curriculum framework for international primary education
  • PYP Language and Mathematics scope and sequence documents
  • PYP Science and Social Studies scope and sequence documents
  • Any other PYP scope and sequence documents of relevance to participant

The learning environment and inquiry

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • Articles available online that are included in the final section on copyrighted material
  • A laptop or notebook computer
  • A copy of the school Program of Inquiry
  • A copy of their current school design with some pictures of learning spaces
  • Information to share re: learning environments – alternative fieldtrip experiences broadening understanding within a unit of inquiry, unconventional structures, systems, approaches employed which warrant discussion, interesting spaces used to facilitate better teaching and learning, programs promoting pedagogical shift

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education

 

The role of information and communication technology (ICT)

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education (electronic or paper form)
  • A laptop computer configured for wireless internet access (participants who don’t have access to this should contact the workshop facilitators prior to the workshop so they can arrange to have a laptop provided for them to borrow)
  • A USB flash/travel drive (with at least 1 GB of storage)
  • Access to the most current copy of their school’s program of inquiry and planners for inquiry units (electronic form)
  • Copies of essential agreements and policies related to the implementation of the PYP at their school (assessment policies, collaborative planning agreements, Exhibition procedures, etc) (electronic or paper form)
  • OCC log-in information
  • Examples of documents and resources participants use to facilitate ICT integration at their school within the context of the PYP (school ICT policy/guidelines, planning templates, computer lab/planning schedules, website links, PYP unit/lesson plans, exemplars of student work, etc)

Optional materials for participants to bring

  • A flash memory video camera (such as a flip camera) or other mobile video recording device • I-pods, digital cameras, tablets or other mobile devices participants use to facilitate student integration of ICT within their learning

 

The role of the coordinator

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • Samples of a program of inquiry (POI), unit planners and daily planning documents and action plans
  • Developing a Transdisciplinary Program of Inquiry

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Current PYP coordinators‘ handbook
  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • Making the PYP happen: Pedagogical leadership in a PYP school
  • IB programme standards and practices
  • Guide to authorization and Guide to evaluation

Please ensure that you have a valid OCC account

 

Inquiry

Participants are requested to bring (either download to laptop or bring a hard copy):

  • Samples of a programme of inquiry (POI) and unit planners
  • Regional or national curriculum documents if applicable

Current version of the following IB documents:

  • Making the PYP happen: a curriculum framework for international primary education
  • IB programme standard and practices
  • Teaching students with particular special educational and learning needs
  • PYP mathematics and language scope and sequence

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