Educators share what they have discovered during their first year of the PYP How would you feel about walking into a room full of young children, all relying on you to teach them valuable skills that will prepare them for life? Excited? Scared? Nervous? How do you cope? Wendy Yu from Kingston International School in […]
This article describes the effectiveness of using the game Minecraft in a unit of inquiry under the transdisciplinary theme ‘How we organize ourselves’.
In today’s article, the author explains the benefits and challenges of encouraging learners to assess themselves, and why more teachers should adopt this practice. It is incredible how the end of the year is always crazy for teachers. It does not matter where you work; the last month will be filled with tests that need […]
Members of the PYP development team joined over 750 educators from Jordan and beyond for the first regional Teacher Skills Forum, organised under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah and the Queen Rania Teaching Academy (QRTA), and supported by the IB. The conference was designed to expose teachers to the latest developments, […]
In this article, the author explains the concept of ‘Understanding by Design’ and how that applies to teaching and learning. As we know, the PYP pushes us to think forward by thinking backwards, but what does that mean? Understanding by Design (UbD) or as vox populi calls it “Backwards Design”, is a curriculum design approach […]
This is the first of a three-part series of blog posts featuring student voice and their reflection on their PYP learning experiences. This first post is from Hout Bay International School, the only PYP school in South Africa.
