I planned the induction to last over six months. We started before school with a two day (mostly) intensive, then had an hour and a half session once a month until December.
3. INTRODUCTIONS AND GETTING
TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER
You need your Wander & Wonder grids + a writing implement
Rules of play
Wander around the room and ask a different participant one of the following questions:
(be sure to write their names and replies in each box on the grid.) No one should be asked twice.
What color do you feel like today and why?
What are you passionate about?
What makes you go quiet?
Name someone you admire and tell why.
What are you most proud of and why.
What is your strongest method of learning (give some examples)
What questions do you have about the PYP?
Name something you long to do but haven’t quite managed to do yet.
What has been a tough learning experience for you and why?
What do you love about teaching?
4. USE THE STICKER ON THE FRONT OF YOUR
BOOKLET TO REGROUP; MEET WITH THOSE
OF THE SAME COLOR STICKERS. DISCUSS.
What’s what?
So what?
Here’s What!
17. ACTIVE LEARNER PROFILE
Brainstorm ways you can think to use or
integrate learning about the learner
profile into your classroom.
Share in your group.
25. WHAT IS CURRICULUM?
PYP defines curriculum as ‘broad and inclusive’
– The Written Curriculum – commitment to continuous
school improvement
– The Taught Curriculum – equal emphasis to
methodology
– The Learned Curriculum – assesses the actual
learning and reminds us of our original purpose
The PYP definition of curriculum includes all three
components
37. SESSION 4 -
COLLABORATIVE PLANNING
Please regroup using the colored dots on your workshop
booklets. (Red, Yellow, Blue)
38. Who will I be working with?
Collaborative planning at
AISD
39. ATLAS RUBICON
Open browser (Safari, Firefox, etc)
Click on Rubicon link on toolbar
Login using your name (letter of last name trick); password is “culture”
Follow the prompts to change your password; don’t forget this!
Your Atlas main page
Start exploring in browse mode
Can you find your units (inquiry, math, etc); can you find any attached/linked
documents?; try downloading one of them
42. ALL TEACHERS/ADULTS
Promote – Internationalism Through
Model – Learner Profile inquiry
Teach – 5 essential elements
Programme of Inquiry Stand Alone Inquiry
The PYP Curriculum Matrix
Mathematics
6 Trans-disciplinary units
Languages
of work based on:
Performing Arts
Science, Social Studies
Visual Arts
Personal and Social
Physical Education
Education
Celebrations
Local Topics
Incidental
43.
44. SESSION 5 - IB’S ONLINE
CURRICULUM CENTER
Please sit in your ‘expert’ group: Forums, E-library/News,
Exhibition, Resources, Support Areas
45. EXPERT GROUPS
Discuss your findings, what What do you want to share
you learned about that with your home group?
area.
Decide how best to share
What were some things that information to your
that could be helpful? home group.
Keep the people in your How much time
home group in mind.
do you need?
46. SHARING WHAT WE
LEARNED
Return to your home group
Take turns round the table to share the
area you explored on the OCC
Take notes on each section as your
group mates share what they learning;
something you could refer back to.
47. Now you should have some of the pieces to the
puzzle of the OCC!
58. MODELS OF INQUIRY
Direct the inquiry
Help justify learning tasks
Build on experiences
Makes sense of learning to reach understandings
59. TEACHING &
LEARNING CYCLE
Laying the
groundwork
Branching out Exploration
Making connections
60. KATH MURDOCH
Tuning In
(To gauge prior knowledge and immerse students in the
inquiry)
Finding Out
(Collecting and gathering information)
Sorting Out
(To organize, represent and present collected data)
61. KATH MURDOCH
Going Further
(Extend or broaden experiences and consider other perspectives;
investigate areas of personal interest)
Making Connections
(Analyzing and linking to themselves and their world)
Reflection
(To reflect on understandings and the process of learning; To draw
conclusions and make connections between ideas)
Action
(To apply or act on what has been learned.)
62. Grade 3 Multiplication Facts
Teacher Driven Inquiry
• Memorize each fact • Body maths – rows in a
• Testing cinema which is best?
• Mad minutes 1x20, 20x1, 2x10, 10x2,
5x4 or 4x5? Is it the best
• Fact families – moving for a bus?
towards inquiry but allow • Arrays – visual /
for discovery first. manipulatives
• Emphasis on the answer • Finding connections
rather than understanding
between 3x5 and 5x3
• Different strategies to find
the answer
63. Infants lesson on Floating and Sinking
Teacher Driven Inquiry
• Emphasis on books to • Free exploration of
collect facts objects in water tray
• Complete worksheet • Prediction
with task • Open ended
• Closed sentences classification
and fill in missing • Record findings and
words decide on new inquiry
64. Grade 5 Recycling
Teacher Driven Inquiry
• Read about items that • Sort objects they think
can be recycled on page can be recycled
37 and complete • Use 2-3 guiding
comprehension questions to keep focus
• Complete worksheet on on field trip
field trip to find numerous • Collect all paper that is
facts not put into recycled bin
and analyse data
65. Grade 1 Reading / Circle
Teacher Driven Inquiry
• Read silently and answer a list • After reading chapter think of a
of factual questions e.g. who is question and pass to next group to
Leena’s friend? answer
• Recount, relate and reflect
• Complete worksheet on the
read chapter – comprehension • After completion of book decide a
way to present it to rest of class
with superficial questions
e.g role play, interview with author
• After complete of book • Compare characters points of
complete test view
• Choosing book from selection with
similar theme e.g friendship
69. INTERNATIONALLY MINDED?
RANK FROM 1-10
Mother Muhammad Barack
Liu Xiaobo Princess Diana
Teresa Yunus Obama
Kofi Annan Angelina Sacha Baron
Pope Benedict XVI Osama bin Laden
Jolie Cohen
70. BEYOND FOOD,
FESTIVALS AND FLAGS
How internationally minded is AISD?
How aware are our students locally?
How aware are they globally?
77. WHAT IS CURRICULUM
PYP defines curriculum as ‘broad and inclusive’
– The Written Curriculum – commitment to continuous
school improvement
– The Taught Curriculum – Equal emphasis to
methodology
– The Learned Curriculum – assessing the actual
learning and reminds us of its purpose
The PYP definition of curriculum includes all three
components
79. Traditional Curriculum... is Topic Based
AMERICAN HISTORY: American Revolution, Westward
Movement, the Constitution, our Government, the Civil War, the
60’s, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Colorado leaders, Native
Americans…
SCIENCE: Plants, snakes, fish, the human body, genes,
volcanoes, the Earth, space travel, machines, water, mountains,
streams…
ENGLISH: Grammar, syntax, essays, Edgar Allan Poe, The
Cay, Romeo and Juliet, Poetry, Fiction, Non-fiction, Skills…
ART: Van Gogh, Picasso, drawing, crafts, art appreciation…
83. Key Points
Two-dimensional
Coverage-centered
vs.Idea-centered
Three-dimensional
“inch deep, mile wide” -facts provide a foundation to
understand conceptual, transferable
ideas.
84. Key Points
Two-dimensional
Coverage-centered
vs.Idea-centered
Three-dimensional
“inch deep, mile wide” -facts provide a foundation to
understand conceptual, transferable
ideas.
Intellectually shallow Intellectual depth
- lacks a conceptual focus -a “conceptual lens,” or focus,
to create a factual/ requires mental processing on
conceptual brain synergy the factual and conceptual levels--
producing intellectual depth in
thinking and understanding.
85. Key Points
Two-dimensional
Coverage-centered
vs.Idea-centered
Three-dimensional
“inch deep, mile wide” -facts provide a foundation to
understand conceptual, transferable
ideas.
Intellectually shallow Intellectual depth
- lacks a conceptual focus -a “conceptual lens,” or focus,
to create a factual/ requires mental processing on
conceptual brain synergy the factual and conceptual levels--
producing intellectual depth in
thinking and understanding.
Inability to transfer Concepts and Generalizations Transfer
factual knowledge -allows the brain to make connections
- facts do not transfer; and see patterns.
locked in time, place, or
situation.
86. Key Points
Two-dimensional
Coverage-centered
vs.Idea-centered
Three-dimensional
“inch deep, mile wide” -facts provide a foundation to
understand conceptual, transferable
ideas.
Intellectually shallow Intellectual depth
- lacks a conceptual focus -a “conceptual lens,” or focus,
to create a factual/ requires mental processing on
conceptual brain synergy the factual and conceptual levels--
producing intellectual depth in
thinking and understanding.
Inability to transfer Concepts and Generalizations Transfer
factual knowledge -allows the brain to make connections
- facts do not transfer; and see patterns.
locked in time, place, or
situation.
Fails to meet the intellectual Develops the intellect to handle a world
demands of the 21st century of increasing complexity and
accelerating change.
88. KNOWLEDGE
Is it possible to identify
a particular body of
knowledge for
international schools?
The PYP recognizes that it would be
inappropriate to attempt to define any narrow,
fixed body of knowledge as essential content
which every student should know. Accepting
this, the task has been approached from a
different perspective.
89. Rather than designing a fixed syllabus, the PYP
has set out to identify transdisciplinary themes –
areas of knowledge – which:
• have significance for all students, all cultures
• offer students the opportunity to explore knowledge which is of
genuine importance in understanding the human condition
• address the fields which form the traditional disciplines but
present these in a way which transcends these disciplines,
therefore facilitating transdisciplinary planning and teaching
• will be revisited throughout the student’s years of schooling, the
end result being an articulated curriculum content, from pre-
kindergarten to secondary school
90. The Structure of Knowledge
Westward Movement
Early American
Early American
settlers looked for
settlers migrated
new opportunities.
west.
91. The Structure of Knowledge
• Migration • Opportunity
Westward Movement
Early American
Early American
settlers looked for
settlers migrated
new opportunities.
west.
92. The Structure of Knowledge
• Migration • Opportunity
• Needs • Freedom
Westward Movement
Early American
Early American
settlers looked for
settlers migrated
new opportunities.
west.
93. The Structure of Knowledge
People migrate to meet a variety
of needs.
• Migration • Opportunity
• Needs • Freedom
Westward Movement
Early American
Early American
settlers looked for
settlers migrated
new opportunities.
west.
94. The Structure of Knowledge
People migrate to meet a variety
of needs.
Migration may lead to new
opportunities or greater freedom.
• Migration • Opportunity
• Needs • Freedom
Westward Movement
Early American
Early American
settlers looked for
settlers migrated
new opportunities.
west.
95. The Structure of Knowledge
The Great Depression
At which levels does knowledge transfer?
96. The Structure of Knowledge
Scarcity Supply & Demand
Economic Depression Leadership
The Great Depression
At which levels does knowledge transfer?
97. The Structure of Knowledge
•Economic depression in one country can
significantly impact other nations.
Scarcity Supply & Demand
Economic Depression Leadership
The Great Depression
At which levels does knowledge transfer?
98. The Structure of Knowledge
•Economic depression in one country can
significantly impact other nations.
•In times of crisis, individual leaders can
exert power and shape the course of
events.
Scarcity Supply & Demand
Economic Depression Leadership
The Great Depression
At which levels does knowledge transfer?
99. The Structure of Knowledge
•Economic depression in one country can
significantly impact other nations.
•In times of crisis, individual leaders can
exert power and shape the course of
events.
Scarcity Supply & Demand
Economic Depression Leadership
The Great Depression
At which levels does knowledge transfer?
100. The Structure of Knowledge
•Economic depression in one country can
significantly impact other nations.
•In times of crisis, individual leaders can
exert power and shape the course of
events.
Scarcity Supply & Demand
Economic Depression Leadership
The Great Depression
At which levels does knowledge transfer?
104. Concept
A concept is an organizing idea;
a mental construct...
• Timeless
• Universal
105. Concept
A concept is an organizing idea;
a mental construct...
• Timeless
• Universal
• Abstract
106. Concept
A concept is an organizing idea;
a mental construct...
• Timeless
• Universal
• Abstract
• Represented by 1 or 2 words
107. Concept
A concept is an organizing idea;
a mental construct...
• Timeless
• Universal
• Abstract
• Represented by 1 or 2 words
• Examples share common
attributes
108. Theory
Building
Generalizations
Expressions of the relationship
Between two or more concepts
Concepts
Classified/ categorized
groups of related facts
Facts
From: Focus on Truths about specific events, objects, people.
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118. To develop the intellect and increase motivation for
learning, curriculum and instruction must create a
“synergy” between the lower (factual) and higher
(conceptual) levels of thinking.
121. It is the conceptual mind that…
creates connections to prior experience and
finds relevance;
122. It is the conceptual mind that…
creates connections to prior experience and
finds relevance;
synergistically works with factual level knowledge
to develop the intellect;
123. It is the conceptual mind that…
creates connections to prior experience and
finds relevance;
synergistically works with factual level knowledge
to develop the intellect;
creates deeper understanding at the factual and
conceptual levels;
124. It is the conceptual mind that…
creates connections to prior experience and
finds relevance;
synergistically works with factual level knowledge
to develop the intellect;
creates deeper understanding at the factual and
conceptual levels;
recognizes the transferablity of knowledge.
125. It is the conceptual mind that…
creates connections to prior experience and
finds relevance;
synergistically works with factual level knowledge
to develop the intellect;
creates deeper understanding at the factual and
conceptual levels;
recognizes the transferablity of knowledge.
creates the motivation for learning
126. Coordinated, Multidisciplinary
Topic Organizer:
A Little Art
A Little Math
Use of
The
Language Human Body
Processes
A Little Science
The “Potpourri Unit”
of facts & activities
A Little Literature
127.
128. This cognitive processing
requires an integrating,
“conceptual lens” such as
Interdependence or System to s
up the intellectual synergy
between the factual and
conceptual levels of the mind.
129. Integrated, Transdisciplinary
Literature
Conceptual Lens: System The Human Body
(Science concepts)
The Scarlet Ibis (J. Hurst)
(limits of the human body)
Health To the Top: Annapurna (Blum)
Wellness (endurance, respiratory system)
Nutrition Physical Education
Eating Disorders The Body Control
Weight Management Movement
Substance Abuse Human Body Coordination
Diseases Musculatory System
Fitness
Endurance
Science
Circulatory System
Math Art
Calculations: heart rate, body mass, Draw a body:
Respiratory System
Statistics symmetry, line, shape
Digestive System, etc.
Measurements: height, weight Human forms - art
Function & structure
Ratios realism, abstract,
Interdependence
Charts; graphs cubist
130. Open the envelope on your table and have a
look at the questions inside.
What do you notice about them?
How could you categorize them?
131. Factual Questions:
Why was the holocaust a significant event in world history?
What beliefs did Hitler hold that drove his actions?
Why is Hitler’s persecution of the Jewish people considered
inhumane?
Conceptual Questions:
What examples of humanity can you cite from our world today?
What acts of humanity can you cite from our present-day world?
How are beliefs, values, and perspectives related to views of
humanity and inhumanity?
Provocative (Debate, or Essential) Question:
Can one be inhumane and civilized at the same time?
132. 1. Think of two specific topics you teach.
2. Choose potential lenses for each topic (you can use the list on the
table)
Do the lenses change the focus or add a dimension for thinking about
the topic?
Which lens do you find most engaging (or challenging) for your topic?
133. When we teach to the levels
of concepts and
generalizations we are
teaching for deep
understanding and the transfer
of knowledge.
I grew up in New Mexico, my parents were both in education TEFOL and Art. Family has now transplanted to Portland, OR which is where I spend most of my big holidays, visiting my niece. I taught for 5 years in NM in Santa Fe and Belen, my home town, in fact I taught 6th grad literature and science in one of my 6th grade classrooms. I discovered that I could teach overseas and never looked back. In 1997 I moved to Tanzania and worked at IST for 6 years, 5 of which were using using the PYP framework in a grade 5 classroom. I moved on to teach a combination 5/6 class, integrating technology at HKA in Hong Kong before moving into the PYP Coordinator’s position. Five years went by quickly but I grabbed the opportunity to work at AISD in Bangladesh as PYPC and IT Facilitator.\n
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What can we each do to ensure that this workshop is a success? These words represents one of the main headings for our essential agreements. Work on a word in pairs, think about the word and create one or two brief but descriptive sentences to offer the group as potential agreements.\n\nRelate this to classroom use.\n
Given some of the answers you gave to this activity plus your general feelings about the PYP at the moment (past readings, word of mouth, etc); a copy of this is sitting on your table, grab a copy and somehow identify which of these figures you feel best represents where you are at the moment. Put today’s date or color it, etc then look again at that sticker on your booklet and get together with the one other person in the room that has that exact same sticker. Discuss and share where you are at on the continuum.\n
Give yourselves permission to not know everything at once. Teachers typically like control and they like to know what’s going on. Throughout the induction process you’ll have some time to reflect and organize your thoughts. There’s a lot of information, it’s the journey that counts not just the destination.\n
Emily lives in London with her mom and dad, as well as a sister and brother. I knew her when she lived in Hong Kong, a student in my classroom. She is now 15 years old and will soon need to narrow down all the things she wants to do to just three subjects. Emily is thinking of Art, English Lit., and Sociology. She is already making plans to spend her gap year teaching English in China while she continues to improve her Mandarin in a local context. We’ll be learning more about Emily as we move through the induction program.\n
Think about a child, a student you know, your own child, niece or nephew, a former student or Emily and visualize what qualities that individual is going to need in order to take his or her place in the world. What qualities are going to help them succeed? Take a moment to think about this yourself; you can use p6 in your booklet to help if needed. Then share your ideas with your table group and create a visual representation of the ideal learner. Please choose someone from the group to share that with everyone.\n
These are attributes that an internationally minded person demonstrates. Notes the similarities between their ideal learners and the Learner Profile. \n\nFind a sticky and note it on page 4 in your MPYPH.\n\nTake a moment to reflect on the Learner Profile and yourself, which attributes are well developed? Which are challenging for you? What can you do to develop this further during the first year at a new school?\n\nTeachers at AISD are expected to actively display the Learner Profile in their classrooms. One of our Bangla teachers has spent some time translating the attributes into Bangla, as displayed here. These are available in Tagore, the school’s faculty server.\n
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Teachers at AISD are expected to actively display the Learner Profile in their classrooms. These are available in Tagore, the school’s faculty server. \n\nIf you’d like a starter set printed for you, let me know.\n\n\n
Take a moment to brainstorm ways you can use or integrate learning about the Learner Profile into your classroom. Use one of the blank sheets in your booklet to record your ideas.\n
wander & wonder\nWhat’s what? So what? Here’s what!\nEssential Agreements\nAISD ‘tree’\n
Compare the mission statements for the IB and AISD. How does the Mission reflect the Learner Profile or vice versa?\n\nThe learner profile is the expression of the philosophy of the PYP and contributes to the development of international awareness.\n
Introduce the IB Standards and Practices document. A1 & 2\n\nThe PYP Standards & Practices describe a PYP school and provide focus for ongoing self-improvements in schools. It is the primary reference for school visits (pre-authorization, authorization, evaluation).\n
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The PYP definition of curriculum comprises three interrelated componenets and can be expressed in the form of three open-ended questions. \n\nThe figure represents this model. The double headed arrows indicate that developing, implementing and assessing the school’s curriculum is an iterative process, whereby each component informs the other two. This is not a linear model that ends with assessment. \n
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Reflection – Take a moment to think of something that you feel you understand really well. It might be something that you can explain to others or something you have applied to solve a range of problems.\nWrite down or draw as much as you can about the learning experiences that you had, which contributed to this understanding.\n\n\n
Give time for participants to work.\n\nShare your experience with your table group and together identify any commonalities in your experiences then.\n\nAsk participants to share these commonalities and chart them while they share.\n
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Mother Teresa - Indian nun, founded Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, internationally known as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless, 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner\nMohammed Yunis - Bangladeshi banker and economist who developed the concepts of microcredit and microfinance, advocating loans for entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional loans, Nobel Peace Prize winner 2006 \nBarack Obama - American politician, President of United States, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2009\nLiu Xiaobo - Chinese writer, human rights activist and political prisoner/dissident, just won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize\nPrincess Diana - English aristocrat, campaigned against the use of landmines due the injuries they end of causing to children in war torn countries\nKofi Annan - Ghanaian diplomat who served as secretary general of the UN, 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, founded the Global AIDS and Health Fund to support developing countries in their struggle to care for their people\nPope Benedict XVI - Italian, Head of the Catholic church, founder and patron of the Ratzinger Foundation, a charitable organisation, which makes money from the sale of his books and essays in order to fund scholarships and bursaries for students across the world\nAngelina Jolie - American actress known for promoting humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees\nSacha Baron Cohen-English comedian/actor best known as an agent provocateur in his portrayal of unorthodox characters.\nOsama bin Laden-Saudi Islamist extremist and founder of al-Qaeda.\n
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These are attributes that an internationally minded person demonstrates. Notes the similarities between their ideal learners and the Learner Profile. \n\nFind a sticky and note it on page 4 in your MPYPH.\n\nTake a moment to reflect on the Learner Profile and yourself, which attributes are well developed? Which are challenging for you? What can you do to develop this further during the first year at a new school?\n\nTeachers at AISD are expected to actively display the Learner Profile in their classrooms. One of our Bangla teachers has spent some time translating the attributes into Bangla, as displayed here. These are available in Tagore, the school’s faculty server.\n
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Sticking with “just the facts” is intellectually shallow and it fails to engage higher-order thinking.\nMemorization=lower-level cognitive work\n\n
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To stimulate more sophisticate, complex thinking, we need to create a synergy between the simple and more complex processing centers in the brain. This synergy means that information will be processed on two cognitive levels (factual and conceptual)\n\n
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Students retain the factual info longer because the use of the lens requires them to process what they know at a deeper level. Further, because students are invited to bring their own thinking to the facts at hand, they are better able to make personal meaning. The invitation involves them emotionally and the motivation for learning increases.\n
Thinking reflectively (metacognitively), are you aware of how the lens invites you to bring your personal intellect to the study? Does the engagement of your personal intellect increase your motivation and interest in this study?\n