If you are teaching at an IB Primary Year Program school let me know. I would love some more ideas for 1st grade. Here is a Learner Profile activity that helps students reflect and also informs the teacher. If you are not at an IB school, you can still use this piece to inform you deeper about the students learning preferences. Images and fonts from Lettering Delights. (Click image to download)
This poster set features the 5 IB PYP Approaches to Learning. Each poster includes the Approach to Learning, an associated "I can..." statement, and an image to help your students interpret and remember the skills. These visuals can be used to promote emphasis on using different skills in all areas of...
Created for passionate teachers who love to inspire their students, this series visually depicts the International Baccalaureate "Key Concepts". These fundamental elements of learning and understanding look just as great in a kid's room as a classroom, so even non-teachers can enjoy them! This set is optimized to be printed at A4, but can be reasonably printed at A3 with slight (but likely not noticeable) quality loss.
At my school, we use Kath Murdoch’s Inquiry Cycle. Many of our staff are new the PYP and new to inquiry-based teaching and learning, so we find this inquiry cycle provides some structure to t…
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This worksheet can help your students identify words and phrases in a text that show examples of rhythm or rhyme. It's a great way to introduce or review poetry concepts! Poetry Rhyme and Rhythm Worksheet
Finally, self assessment and meaningful reflection for our younger IB PYP learners. Following on from the highly popular write and draw Learner Profile and Thinking Skills resources, this IB PYP write and draw resource will have your students reflecting and assessing their own progress in a fun, engaging and meaningful way as they become adept with the sub skills within the IB PYP Approaches to Learning Skills. Designed for Kindergarten up to Grade 2. •Thinking •Research •Communication •Social •Self Management • Through the concept of REFLECTION and the Learner Profile attribute of BEING reflective, the children are asked to analyse their own application of the sub-skills commonly relating to kindergarten up to grade 2. With editable templates, you can add your own success criteria and even co-create success criteria with the children, adding them to both the 5 Star Rubric format and the Reflect & Draw Score chart. Both formats of rubric will challenge your students to think critically and creatively, encouraging their voice and ownership and ultimately accountability with their own progress of the ATL Skills. The "Read, Draw, Write" style worksheet encourages students to read the words from the simple language within the success criteria, use them to create sentences to describe their drawings and to self-assess using the rubric too. Great to use with: •Focus skills within your units of inquiry •Reflection activities •Evidence of progressive skills development •Student/Peer/Teacher feedback •Self assessment of writing skills •Encouraging student agency •Student led conferences Each page provides space for the children to illustrate their own example and then to write a sentence about how they applied the specific skills. An image related to key words is included to help students generate ideas when writing about their creations. The rubric included on each sheet encourages self-assessment of writing as well! Win-win! An extra lined writing page has also been included at the end of the packet for differentiation, should they wish to write more. Just print this page on the back of any sheet to provide more writing space. If you are looking for more ideas and tools for bringing the PYP into your early years classroom, be sure to follow along with my blog PYPteachingtools.com. And please do browse the early years collection of PYP TEACHING TOOLS in my store. Enjoy! Susan Powers PYPteachingtools.com
Discussion mats provide a high engagement, concept-based, structured activity to build communication skills within your IB PYP students. You can find a set for each of the IB PYP transdisciplinary themes, providing the perfect provocation materials for related concepts. Speaking and listening skills specifically target the Approaches to Learning sub skill of exchanging information and are perfect for developing collaborative discussion skills synonymous with the IBPYP learning environment. Great for grades 3-6. Includes UK & USA spelling. These concept-based Discussion Mats are designed to get students talking, providing high-engagement picture prompts to provoke curiosity and asking open-ended, guiding questions. Sentence stems provide support to beginning and intermediate ESL level students. •Activate background knowledge •Tune into the related concepts •Provoke curiosity •Introduce key vocabulary authentically •Develop collaborative discussion skills –accountable talk, listening to respond etc. This tool covers the concepts within the theme, Who We Are. Includes: Identity, Beliefs & Values, Feelings & Emotions, Community, Relationships, Growth, Wellbeing & much more. ***You can also find editable, differentiated discussion mats to add your own images.*** •The Discussion Mats in connection with the graphic organisers are formatted for partners AND small groups. •Differentiated graphic organisers are provided for additional support. •"Roll & Talk" mats are also included! Your students will love "playing" and practicing their oral language skills with this fun activity. Check out the preview! What's Included: •Differentiated, editable discussion mats •Conversation bingo chart •Roll and Talk activity •21 high-engagement concept mats prompts for Who We Are You can find Discussion Mats for each transdisciplinary theme: •Where We Are in Place & Time •How the World Works •Sharing the Planet •How We Express Ourselves •How We OrganiseOurselves You can find many more concept & skills-based learning tools for the PYP in my store and on my blog. You may also be interested in the Concept Assessment & Reflection Task Cards for each theme. You find other ways to develop Communication Skills in this article on my blog PYPteachingtools.com Enjoy! Susan Powers PYPteachingtools.com (concepts vs. topics)
This poster set features the 5 IB PYP Approaches to Learning. Each poster includes the Approach to Learning, an associated "I can..." statement, and an image to help your students interpret and remember the skills. These visuals can be used to promote emphasis on using different skills in all areas of...
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This poster set features the 5 IB PYP Approaches to Learning. Each poster includes the Approach to Learning, an associated "I can..." statement, and an image to help your students interpret and remember the skills. These visuals can be used to promote emphasis on using different skills in all areas of...
This poster set features the 5 IB PYP Approaches to Learning. Each poster includes the Approach to Learning, an associated "I can..." statement, and an image to help your students interpret and remember the skills. These visuals can be used to promote emphasis on using different skills in all areas of...
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This poster set features the 10 IB PYP Attributes of the Learner Profile. Each poster includes the attribute, an associated explanation statement, and an image to help your students interpret and remember the attributes of the learner profile. These visuals can be used to promote emphasis on using d...
This step by step guide and digital workbook is for students, teachers, mentors and parents to help support student through the PYP Exhibition process. It includes: a work agreement a detailed exhibition rubric process and meeting journals outlines to support students' planning, research, learning experiences, transdisciplinary links, action, presentation, and reflection and evaluation. Organisation templates and thinking routines.
This IB PYP Learner Profile collaborative research project is filled with all you need to teach about the Learner Profile attributes through well known, global explorers across place and time brining the learner profile to life through the concepts of exploration and investigation Highly engaging, this collection of Learner Profile posters is a unique application of collaborative research activities. The children work together to connect the explorer with the specific attribute as they apply their Approaches to Learning Skills. You will find: •Note taking graphic organisers to support developing research skills • Reflection and assessment sheet to guide self/peer assessment with the ATL Skills as the children work collaboratively on their project. Print in either letter/A4 size for portfolios, working binders and wall posters OR create a large, poster sized version, perfect for showcasing the focus attributes. •Each poster is designed to be worked on collaboratively in small groups of 2-3 students. The create your own Learner Profile posters set includes 20 diverse, global explorers including: •Mae Jemison •William Kamkwamba •Jane Goodall •Ferdinand Magellan •Sacagawea •Marco Polo •Tom Crean •And more. •For each attribute, you will find a female & male example, providing 20 examples PLUS blank templates for the children to select their own characters to research, to fit with each Learner Profile attribute. ★ Features images all in line art for your students to add their own creativty and design. ★ Printed at 250% full size, posters are approximately the size of easel chart paper. (65cm x 75cm ) ★ Self/Peer assessment rubric ★ Reflection questions relating to the ATL Skills applied. ★ Student handouts and planning sheets explain each part of the body biography project ★ The teacher set up directions, background & suggestions for use. ★Classroom Décor ★Bulletin Board ★Hallway ★Showcase Display If you are looking for a set of collaborative Learner Profile posters for younger children, you can take a look at this set here. Look at the complete bundle here, perfect for a whole school project bringing the Learner Profile to life. You may also be interested in my MANY tools for bringing the IB PYP Learner Profile to life, right here. Enjoy! Susan Powers PYPteachingtools.com
Use these colorful, printable posters to introduce and review the language of the trans- disciplinary skills, now known as the Approaches to Learning Skills, within the PYP. They are designed with the upper elementary in mind and use a lot of the verbiage directly from the International Baccalaurea...
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In my school district we adopted the five learning beliefs from Education Reimagined to help drive our district vision: competency-based; personalized, relevant & contextualized; learner agency; socially embedded; open-walled. In working with these five beliefs, we must (1) have a clear understanding of what they mean, and (2) be equipped with explicit strategies to make them a reality. Otherwise, a vision is not much more than words on paper. That being said, here’s the Education Reimagined definition of learner agency: Learning that is characterized by learning agency recognizes learners as active participants in their own learning and engages them in
Let's talk about Human Agency. Human agency is the ability for a human to make choices and then act on them in the world around them. They can choose their plan and make it come to life. Sounds good right? All human's thrive on choice. Kids especially. So, how can we use human agency in Kindergarten? Have you done choice time? Or choice boards? Have you given your child a choice between foods, clothes, or toys? This is human agency. While kids thrive on routine, they also need choice. When we think of human agency in the Kindergarten classroom, we are using their interests, respecting their ideas, and showing them that we care about them all at the same time. We can use human agency in school ALL DAY LONG. Yes, we will need to have assessments, yes we will need to do things we don't want to do. But, if we give kids the power to choose how they are going to participate in school, we are giving them a gift. Because we are living a crazy life right now, we can use agency to help students take control over their own learning. They can believe they are in charge and that you are there as a facilitator. As I have always said, and I was very glad to hear Kristi Mraz agree, you can put academics into just about anything. If we give children a choice on what to play, we can work through that to 1) get to know the child, 2) utilize their strengths, and 3) teach them how to be thinkers and doers. I had a boy in my class in 2017 that was 100% hands-on. He was painfully shy and easily overwhelmed. But, when you gave him blocks he came alive. He would build and tell stories. I gave him a paper counting test and he ended up in tears. I gave him a bunch of plastic bears and he did amazing. This is the point where we can take what he CAN do and teach him that he can do more. We can show him how to do things on paper, and when he is ready he will choose to do it. Ok, ok, I know some of you are like, "You can't just do what you want!" I agree, trust me. There are a lot of times where you just have to fall in line. But, what if in Kindergarten, we taught them to believe that their ideas matter? That they can speak up with their thoughts and feelings? What if we instilled in them the ability to choose the right thing? How? Well, it starts in play. Children will play with what they are interested in. The dollhouse is thought of as a "girl" toy. Yet, boys will play with it. The cars are considered a "boy" toy. But, I had a very elaborate car collection when I was a child. Why not just watch and see what they choose? You will be surprised at what happens, and then you can choose what to do with it. We all hear about Inquiry. It is defined as "the act of asking for information". Once you see what they are interested in, you can start to teach around it. Kinders love life! They are curious about everything! And each day is different. Pumpkins, friends, buildings, bugs, marbles, water, it is all there. What we need to flip is us telling them what they are going to learn and begin using what they like to start a conversation. My launch of K will contain very small groups, which I explained yesterday. I will look at interests and group accordingly. This will build community, love of school, and enhance their curious nature. Take a look at this infographic. These are all of the things we want our students to do. We have to give them the OPPORTUNITIES to learn how. .
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Do you focus as much on the process of learning as the content? Do your students reflect as much on how they learn as on what they learn. As a PYP school, we have six units of inquiry each year, on…
My new first grade teaching partner this year is going to teach me a lot of fun new things, I can already tell. Here is a picture I took of her inquiry cycle board after our first six-week unit: Pr…
At my school, we use Kath Murdoch’s Inquiry Cycle. Many of our staff are new the PYP and new to inquiry-based teaching and learning, so we find this inquiry cycle provides some structure to t…
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