This article highlights practices that address the development of approaches to learning skills—communication and social—in a series of lessons.
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Developing approaches to learning in Mandarin classrooms
This article talks about the importance of transdisciplinary tasks. It shows some strategies for Mandarin PYP teachers and all specialized PYP teachers to facilitate transdisciplinary teaching and learning.
Differentiation in Chinese teaching and learning
This article is available in Chinese and English. It gives an example of differentiation in a unit of inquiry in the teaching Chinese as an additional language classroom.
Classroom globetrotting
After discovering last year that 15 different languages were spoken in her classroom, Dottie Price, Year 3 PYP teacher, created Language Fridays: a whistle-stop tour around the world in half an hour. Every Friday afternoon, 30 minutes were set aside for students to volunteer to teach their mother tongue to classmates. In the first week, […]
Developing a culture of multilingualism at International School Carinthia
This article describes the evolution of multilingualism in a school where three different cultures intertwine. International School Carinthia is located in a stunningly beautiful, little-known part of central Europe referred to in German as the “Dreiländereck”, where Austria, Italy and Slovenia meet. In former times, the languages from these regions intermingled as much as the […]
LinkedIn discussion: Additional language teaching and learning
A PYP teacher wants to know other schools’ approaches to teaching and learning additional language in IB schools. Here are the highlights from an ongoing conversation on LinkedIn: John: “Circle time in the morning is my time whereby I will mix it with some good old fashioned EAL/ESL teaching (I believe that our children need […]