This article talks about the importance of supporting the Primary Years Programe students in taking global action from very young age through learning processes: play-based learning and creative inquiry.
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Listening to learning: Agency in the early years
This article is based on an example of listening to learning within a pre-kindergarten classroom and how teachers tuning into student voices helped to shape the direction of our inquiry into the transdisciplinary theme of ‘How we express ourselves’.
Living our mission statement through play
This article highlights how the primary students highlight and realize their school’s mission statement through play.
Leading students to inquire about life through science
This article shows how children’s hand-on learning in science activities enable them to understand the world.
Learning Labs: Promoting teacher collaboration
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.
From paper to online presence – an inquiry into preschool portfolios
This article explains the importance of the ability to share the process of students’ learning through online platforms. It show how a PYP school developed an online portfolio system which provides a continuous record of students’ learning and enables to track the five essential elements, and share these with the wider community.