Quantcast
Channel: Primary Years Programme – IB Community Blog
Viewing all 232 articles
Browse latest View live

Creativity and thinking outside “the box”

0
0

This article challenges the idea that being creative means “to think outside the box”. It argues that early years students need to develop a solid understanding of rules and frameworks as well as skills in order to engage in successful creative process

How your class could travel 30,000 miles in 48 hours

0
0

By Steven Auslander As educators embrace growing trends and transform mobile apps into effective learning tools, we are interested to hear how IB teachers use technology in the classroom. We recently considered how gaming can be educational and now, in a follow-up to the post The Skype’s the limit, by Skype Master, Steve Auslander, we hear how […]

Exploring perspectives through technology

0
0

This article illustrates how grade 3 students explored different perspectives about technology, and developed their digital literacy and conceptual understanding of the term ‘perspectives’.

Using literacy to drive inquiry

0
0

This article highlights a PYP school’s journey towards fostering language and literacy inquiry as an essential tool for achieving the objectives of the programme of inquiry and ultimately, learner success.

Film project provides rare insight into IB World Schools

0
0

One teacher and his students are on a mission to share the differences and similarities between PYP exhibitions around the world

The first PYP exhibition experience

0
0

In this article you will read how a PYP teacher in Colombia experienced her first PYP exhibition learning and guiding process.

Fostering a gender inclusive learning community

0
0

In this article you will find easy to incorporate practices to ensure all students, including those who identify with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community, feel safe and supported at school.

Candidacy and connectedness

0
0

This article reflects on the journey of an IB candidate school in Australia and the immediate benefits of a sense of connectedness across the community.

Classroom goals for 2017

0
0

IB teachers share their plans, hopes and aspirations for the year ahead From finding new ways to engage students with the IB Learner Profile to creating a more exciting learning environment, IB teachers are already thinking about how they can improve learning and teaching over the next 12 months. “I want to make the classroom […]

‘Reaching out’ and ‘reaching in’ by fostering international-mindedness

0
0

International-mindedness is the bedrock of the IB approach. While we in the IB community understand its importance, it can be a challenging concept to define, develop and assess. To shed more light on the practice of international-mindedness, researchers from the University of Bath conducted an in-depth, multi-programme study in nine IB World Schools around the […]

Learning Labs: Promoting teacher collaboration

0
0

This article examines the impact of Learning Labs on teacher collaboration, growth and leadership as well as student benefits. Learning Labs offer teachers an opportunity to host a small group of peers in their class, then reflect on the approaches to teaching and approaches to learning that were observed together.

Top moments for international education in 2016

0
0

If you watch or read the news, you’ll know 2016 has been an eventful year for lots of great – and some not so great – reasons. But there have been many uplifting and memorable moments in international education, including new partnerships, campaigns and strategies to ensure quality education is available to all.

Re-thinking the exhibition presentation

0
0

How to make an engaging PYP exhibition that everyone will remember? Turn it into an experience!

Mannequin challenge teaches students about peace

0
0

PYP class used the popular new craze to highlight different types of conflict and consider how they could be solved

Leading an IB workshop

0
0

This article shares how effective collaboration at an IB in-school workshop benefited workshop leaders, participants and the school community.

Hope and cognitive development in an English as a second language classroom

0
0

This article promotes using the agents of hope to optimize learning in the English as a second language classroom.

Constructivism in practice

0
0

In this article you will read how inquiry and constructivism go hand in hand as the learners or inquirers build upon their prior knowledge or previous experiences.

Planning a coffee morning for parents

0
0

This article shares the success of a learning journey with parents in a PYP school in China.

Making the exhibition happen

0
0

This article is about how a PYP school in Peru took the PYP exhibition further than simply incorporating the elements of inquiry, action and reflection by embracing transdisciplinarity, technology and design, and sustainability. It also shows authentic real-world tasks that were a critical part of students’ experience.

Challenging Behaviour

0
0

Studies show that challenging classroom behaviour is suggestive of learning barriers, but how are IB teachers working with students to overcome these obstacles? IB World investigates
Viewing all 232 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images