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Students taking ownership of their learning
This article illustrates how grade 5 students took ownership of their own learning throughout the PYP exhibition organized under the transdisciplinary theme How the world works.
How to develop scientific skills in the early years students
Young children are often called natural scientists. How a visitor—a caterpillar—to an early years classroom changed the dynamics of thinking in students and became a major instrument in developing scientific thinking among them.
Student-led conferences: Trying a new approach
In this article you will read how a school changed their approach to facilitating student-led conferences to avoid students ‘freezing’.
Envisioning the future – Interview with the Head of the Primary Years Programme Development
Find out how the Head of Primary Years Programme envisions the future of the programme.
Update: The Primary Years Programme (PYP) review
This article is available in English, French and Spanish. Watch our 7 minute video and find out more about the IB’s current thinking around the PYP framework as the PYP review moves towards the release of the new digital interactive site for the PYP in 2018.