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: Pretty amazing right? The students were able to see a visual fill up week by week…
Students reflect on what they did during the inquiry cycle
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Photos from Flickr: istlibrary Learning from peers is powerful -- in the classroom and in life. I often get my share early on a Saturday morning, thanks to Skype and Beth Gourley, my friend and fellow teacher-librarian. When our video cameras come into focus, the difference in our locations is
Many educators, education programs, and standards imagine that only the most mature high school students, maybe in their senior year, can handle projects in which they take responsibility to choose…
Grade 4 PYP unit overview for How We Organize Ourselves
A compilation of the best ideas I've seen for an awesome detective classroom theme.
One of my favorite new blogs to follow is Sonya Terborg's. Every time I read a new post from her, I feel like we are kindred spirits. Recently, she wrote an article called, "Teaching Without a Plan...What???" in which she addressed how we, as teachers, can approach being "the guide on the side". I think…
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Children's Stories on Global Goals and The PYP Learner Profile
A brief overview of our Grade 4 PYP unit.
Our school just unrolled the first phase of our 1:1 iPad program tonight. In preparation of this big event, I spent some time this summer l...
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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 believe it is possible and you can work them all in during Circle Time! We first begin our day my choosing our Learner Profile…
There is a common misconception that project based learning is not as rigorous or as organic a form of inquiry-based learning as the IB PYP unit of inquiry. I say, that depends on our understanding of an inquiry-based project and student agency.
A poster demonstrating the steps involved in formulating a question for inquiry-based learning.
