What is inquiry? What does inquiry look like? See what an inquiry-based education like the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme (PYP)* at ISTP looks like, every day in the classroom.
Transdisciplinary Skills What do we want students to be able to do? Transdisciplinary Themes Who we are...
Key Concepts with Question Stems Bookmarks include the Eight IB-PYP Key Concepts along with question stems to help students generate questions for inquiry. Concepts are: Form, Function, Perspective, Change, Causation, Connection, Responsibility, and Reflection. Page can be folded and cut to make a bookmark. One set has pictures and one does not. There is an additional page that has all key concepts on a full page that can be used in a binder or notebook. Different versions are included with pictures and no pictures. Updated Version includes colored backgrounds and "cute kids" as images.
One thing that I’ve learned being an IB Age 3 teacher is it’s difficult to introduce the IB Learner Profiles, Attitudes, Concepts, Skills, and Action Cycle to the students. However, I b…
This colorful set of 5 posters describes the Transdisciplinary Skills used in the IB Program. The skills are: Communication, Research, Social, Thinking and Self-management. I have also made headers with the words Transdisciplinary Skills and Approaches to Learning on them, along with a blank header for your own creativity! Note: this set is sized for International A4 paper and has been updated to include posters with the British spelling for organisation. Thanks for looking!
One thing that I’ve learned being an IB Age 3 teacher is it’s difficult to introduce the IB Learner Profiles, Attitudes, Concepts, Skills, and Action Cycle to the students. However, I b…
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…
Implementing Learner agency Learner Agency is basically when our students have ownership of their own learning and action that comes from that learning.This student-friendly poster contains both coloured and black in white sets of PYP Learner agency poster ( colour and black in white option) Voice ...
Inspiring student-led action is something that is an on-going, inclusive part of the enhanced IB PYP classroom. These posters are aligned with the PYP enhancements and can be used as a reference tool as the children come to understand the different forms that action can take; personally, locally and globally. You will find posters for: •Social Justice •Participation •Social Entrepreneurship •Lifestyle Choices •Advocacy. •Action •Agency My wish is that this resource , aligned with the blog article, Developing Student-Led Action in the IB PYP, will help you to clarify the process of developing student-led action and give your kiddos a few ideas that they will feel confident about sharing for bringing positive change to themselves, their community and even the world. By reading the article, you will also be linked to additional action inspiring posters that you can download for FREE! You may also be interested in these matching classroom posters that demonstrate what action looks like, sounds like, feels like and acts like. Perfect as a compliment to these or for younger children. Take a look at them here. Cheers to encouraging your students to become their own superheroes! All my best, Susan Powers PYPteachingtools.com
IB PYP Report Card Comments I am very excited to share 450 + Report Card Comments with you that are ready for use. General + Math + Language + UOI Writing report card comments always used to take me days and days. Then I developed this resource for myself. My principals as well as parents from my classes always express how informative, insightful, clear, and helpful the comments are. I know this resource will save you TONS of time and stress too. Comments address students who are meeting the benchmark, excelling, demonstrating growth, and needing improvement and continued support. All comments are well organized for ease of usage. I have separated the comments in two parts Girls and Boys. Just add your student's name and voila your report card is ready Don’t let report writing get you down. Use these comments to help write reports in a flash! PERSONALIZED comments to help you make reports more meaningful. If you are not teaching IB classes, you can easily use these comments for general reporting. Please download the product preview before purchasing for a closer look at this product! Contact me if you have any questions regarding this resource, I am always keen to help. This bundle contains : General Comments or Form Tutor Comments - 250 + comments Math Comments - 70 + Comments Language Comments - 60 + Comments Unit of Inquiry ( UOI ) - 90+ Comments
Simply print, laminate, and hang! All of the IB PYP learner profile posters written in kid-friendly language with cute graphics. Included are: inquirer, knowledgeable, thinker, communicator, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-taker, balanced, and reflective. If you love these, make sure you check out my accompanying IB PYP Attitudes poster set!
Making the IB PYP meaningful and authentic. These classroom posters include language from the International Baccalaureate’s description of the Learner Profile and IB Attitudes. Each profile trait comes with endearing and funny pictures of animals, to help visualise the meaning behind the words and their kid friendly explanations. The quotes are from well known people from the past and the present and tie in wonderfully to further reinforce the students understanding. These can be used as a classroom display to refer to daily. The children will become familiar with the Learner Profile traits ,the IB Attitudes and the language of the IB PYP. Included: 10 posters of the Learner Profile traits (COURAGEOUS & RISKTAKER) 12 posters of the IB Attitudes Teacher suggestions as to how to utilise the posters as learning tools for establishing a solid comprehension of the IB PYP academic language. You can find more ideas, resources and FREEBIES for the IB PYP in my store and on my blog. Included are complete units of inquiry for each theme. Enjoy! Susan Powers www.coolteachingtools.blogspot.com
At the end of October 2018, the IB's Primary Year's Programme released the much-anticipated new digital resource, "PYP: From principles into...
The 7 Elements of Learner Agency These 7 elements contribute to learner agency: voice, choice, engagement, motivation, ownership, purpose, and self-efficacy. We arrived at these elements to define …
Fun ways to encourage reflection and goal setting. Reflection can be a tricky concept to genuinely learn. There are fun templates to suit the early years as well as the older students. The templates are ALL editable. You will require Power Point in order to manipulate the slides. You can click on the subject area and change it to suit your school or class. Similarly, the key concepts can be adjusted as your unit demands. Or you can change the subjects for skills, key concepts, Learner Profile traits and IB Attitudes. All as you prefer for your class, unit and school. You will find a collection of 13 reflection templates one of which one is a flip flap book. Use all of the pages in the book or only those pertinent to you and your unit. These can also be edited to suit. The templates include spaces for writing or drawing, depending on the ages and abilities of the students. Three of the templates include multiple subject areas, so that there can be one reflection template for multiple subjects. For example: specials. Use them with: End of unit reflections Portfolios Goal setting for any curricular area Reflection of Learner Profile, IB Attitudes and Skills used. Student Led Conferences You may also be interested in my other IB PYP resources which can be found in my store or on my blog. I have complete units of inquiry for each theme as well as resources to build understanding of the Learner Profile, Attitudes and Key Concepts. Enjoy! Susan Powers www.coolteachingtools.blogspot.com
A sort for students to practice distinguishing between rights and responsibilities. This could be used to introduce the concept of rights and responsibilities, or to teach learning behaviors at the beginning of the school year.
Note: This Inquiry Poster set is sized to be printed on 8.5x11 paper This detective themed inquiry poster set was designed to be used by itself or as a bulletin board set. There are headers included that say: The Inquiry Cycle We See and Wonder We Explore, Investigate & Discover We Share our Thinking We Reflect We Act & Change There are 5 magnifying glasses also included to cut out and put next to each header. If you would like a different color or wording, feel free to contact me at [email protected]. Thanks for looking!
It’s been more or less a year since the enhanced PYP was officially shared with the IB community. I feel that the enhancement has given more flexibility to the implementation of the programm…
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...
Since the enhanced Primary Years Programme documentation was released in October 2018 (PYP: From principles into practice), I have been updating the PYP placemat I previously created for teachers and students at Kaposia Education Center, an IB World School to support their implementation of the PYP. Some changes were easy to make. I took out reflection as a key concept. I removed the action cycle and replaced it with the five different forms of action articulated in the new documentation. However, the back of the placemat proved more difficult to bring up-to-date. I was able to easily replace the new ATL sub-skills, but defining them in student-friendly language seemed like a difficult task to do alone. So, I waited until yesterday when I was able to work with the amazing Kaposia educators to create definitions of all the ATL sub-skills (and sub-sub-skills) that even our youngest learners will be able to understand. The following is the product of our work together. My hope is that the teachers and students at Kaposia, along with others at authorized or candidate PYP schools, are able to use this PYP Placemat to help them more deeply implement the robust international Primary Years Programme of the International Baccalaureate. Click the images below to be linked to the PDF version of the placemat that can be printed and copied.
This is a checklist of things you should see inside of an IB PYP classroom...
Student agency is about empowering students to know themselves better, determine who they want to be and identifying steps we can take together to have this goal become a reality.
The IB encourages teachers to facilitate learning, versus "teaching" students. In a PYP classroom a teacher's role is more about guiding le...
A few years ago, the staff at my school began learning about inquiry research. We used the book, Comprehension & Collaboration: Inqu...
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…
New and updated IB Passport to Global Citizenship!This is a super fun tool for PYP students in the IB classroom. Use it to reinforce all your Transdisciplinary Themes!
