The popular saying: “two heads are better than one” has come a reality for one Primary Years Programme school in Mexico. In this article you will read about how the entire school experienced a student-centered environment since implementation of whole-staff brainstorm meetings to enrich units of inquiry.
Archive | Collaboration
How to gain an insight as a pedagogical leader
This article showcases the cognition process of a Primary Years Programme coordinator. The author shares how to interact with fellow schools in a local network to experience a platform of fraternity and connectedness.
Inquiring through literature
This article explores how a unit of inquiry on literature, as a result of effective planning and collaboration with the library, sowed the seeds for the students to ideate an action as a result of their understanding of the unit.
Going beyond the action plan
Your school has gone through authorization and received an official report. What’s next? This article explores how one school has used the authorization report to create a clear and actionable 3-year timeline that is shared and reviewed with the learning community.
Let’s move the tables!
What happens if a student asks to re-arrange the tables in a classroom? This article talks about a PYP teacher relinquishing control, standing back and allowing students to change everything.
The important role of single-subject teachers
This article describes how single-subject teachers contributed to a unit of inquiry and allowed the classroom teachers to recognize student’s conceptual understandings that they were previously unaware of.