This article explores one school’s journey to invite parents into the planning process in order to build parent agency and strengthen the learning community.
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Making the inquiry happen
This article encourages inquiry at every step in a PYP classroom.
Every student is unique and so is the way they work
This article shares a strategy of planning a unit that helped in creating a fair and equitable process for evaluating student learning.
Involving students in planning and inquiry
This article explains how to support and involve fifth grade students in the planning of their learning experiences.
From surface to deep learning: The importance of knowledge
This article illustrates how the use of the SOLO Taxonomy allowed our students to progress from shallow to deep thinking.
The Blank Planner Project – Collaborative planning on technology unit
Imagine beginning day one of a unit of inquiry with nothing but a blank planner. Learn how two grade 5 teachers pushed the limits of inquiry-based design by planning, communicating and implementing a completely student-developed unit of inquiry event with collaborative input from parents, students and administration.
Flexible scheduling for EdTech (Part 2)
This is the last of a two-part article about integrating technology into the curriculum. The first part explains how a flexible schedule might look like in a school.
Flexible scheduling for EdTech (Part 1)
This is the first of a two-part article about integrating technology into the curriculum.
Flexible scheduling for EdTech (Part 1)
This is the first of a two-part article about integrating technology into the curriculum. As EdTech specialists, our role within the PYP is to authentically integrate technology into the curriculum. In many schools, this means fitting these into weekly scheduled lab sessions and this can be frustrating. The students often do not finish projects during […]
Do you hear their voice?
This article is available in English and Arabic. As teachers: what we are doing to ensure that student-centered classrooms, where students are independent and empowered to make choices in their learning experiences, is happening in our classrooms? How can we engage the students in the planning of the units?