pyp in the earlyyears

PYP in the EarlyYears

November 27th 2020

Our Vision & Mission

Our Vision

“Inspiring Individuals”

Our Mission

To offer a challenging and dynamic international

education that inspires and supports students in

developing the knowledge, skills, and characteristics to

take responsible action for the betterment of their local

and global communities.

Core Values (QLBs)

Inspiring Individuals Strive for Understanding…

Our forums and workshops aim to provide a deeper understanding of the programmes on offer in the

Primary school, including taking a deeper look at the PYP. Your questions are valid and always

answered. Your depth of understanding will enable you to better support your children and the

teachers as well as enhance the school home partnerships.

Inspiring Individuals nurture passion in self and others…

Your children are your passion, you want what is best for them, you want them to have a quality

education, be safe and be happy at school. Those are our aims too, for each individual child. Working

together in partnership can only provide a better support system for our students.

Inspiring Individuals take action ethically…

Understanding the programme and the expectations allows us to offer more connected and authentic

support. Answering your questions and being transparent about the teaching and learning,

philosophes, experiences at KIS ensures open dialogue and added value to our partnerships.

Inspiring Individuals create a caring and inclusive community…

KIS is a community that brings together families, children and teachers from around the world,

listening and sharing perspectives and ideas helps us to become an inclusive and caring community.

Growth Mindset

What is Your Mindset?

Wonderings

Engagement/Activity 1

What are your wonderings?

What would you like

to know about the

PYP in the Early

Years?

What are you

wondering?Jot your thoughts down on post it

notes and keep them close!

The PYP Framework

Students demonstrate Agency

when they:

● Influence and direct their own

learning

● Make choices and voice their

own opinions, take action.

● Ask questions and express

wonderings

● Construct new meanings &

communicate new

understandings

● Participate in, and contribute

to the learning community

Learning & Teaching:

● Whole School POI - includes all

the Elements of the PYP; such

as:

● Key Concepts - deeper

thinking & Understanding● Related Concepts - knowledge

areas (Language, Math,

Science, Social Studies, PSPE

& Arts

● Approaches to Learning - skills

● Learning through Inquiry

● Reflection - Self & Peer based

on collaborative designed criteria

● Evidence of Understanding -

Assessment

The Learning Community:

● Supporting Learner Agency through Technology; design of

Learning Spaces and Student Leadership

● Strategies on connecting all aspects of the Learner,

Learning & Teaching and the Learning Community to

support a deep understanding of International Mindedness

(IBLP)

Being Agentic

Student

Agency

Teacher

Agency

Parent

Agency

Learner Profile

Wonderings


Your thoughts and predictions!

What Learner Profile

attributes do you

think you will need to

demonstrate during

this workshop?

What makes you

say that?

Jot your thoughts down on post it

notes and keep them close!

Transdisciplinary Programme

• Who we are

• Where we are in place and time

• How we express ourselves

• How the world works

• How we organize ourselves

• Sharing the Planet

KIS Curriculum Programme of Inquiry (POI)

• Making authentic curricular

connections

• Units of inquiry (UOI)

• Mapping and bringing it all

together across the

primary school

• Vertical and horizontal

curriculum alignment

• Review and flexibility

Your thoughts and predictions


KIS Curriculum (knowledge areas)

Written Curriculum Areas:

• Language

• Math

• Science

• Social Studies

• Personal, Social, Physical

Education(PE)

• The Arts (Music, Visual Arts,

Drama and Dance)

What are your thinking?

What subject areas

do you think are

focused on?

What makes you

say that?Jot your thoughts down on the

sheet provided!

What are you thinking?

The KIS Curriculum (knowledge areas)

KIS Language Arts Curriculum document Strands:

• Listening and Speaking

• Written Language Reading

• Written Language Writing

• Viewing and Presenting

• Knowledge about Language


Speaking

and

Listening


Written

Language

Reading


Written

Language

Writing


Viewing

and

Presenting


Knowledge

about

Language

The PYP Elements

Key Concepts:Cultivating a depth in thinking

Knowledge Areas:Learning about conceptual

understandings

Approaches to

Learning: (Skills)Learning how to build

conceptual understandings

Action:Learner Agency

Form - What is it?

Function: How does it work?

Causation: Why is it as it is?

Change: How is it

transforming?

Connection: How is it linked

to other things?

Perspective: What are the

points of view?

Responsibility: What are

our obligations?

Math - Number; Data

Handling; Measurement -

Shape & Space; Pattern &

Function

Language - Oral (Listening

& Speaking); Visal (View &

Presenting); Written

(Reading & Writing)

PSPE - Identity; Active

Living; Interactions

Arts - Creating &

Responding through Drama;

Music; Dance; Visual Arts

Science & Social Studies -

strands that directly reflect

Units of Inquiry

● Self Management Skills:

Organisation; States of

Mind

● Social Skills: Positive

interpersonal relationships

& Collaboration; Social

Emotional Intelligence

● Communication Skills:

Exchanging information;

Literacy; ICT

● Thinking Skills: Critical

Thinking; Creative

Thinking; Transfer;

Reflection

● Research Skills:

Information Literacy;

Media Literacy; Ethical

use of Media/Information

Understanding myself

as a Learner

Knowing:

● what I already know

● what I will do next

● how my thinking is

changing

Transferring and

applying my

understandings to new

experiences

Wonderings


Play to Learn and Learn to Play

Parent Agency - what next?

Central Idea:

Play extends ideas, develops creativity and encourages social interaction

Lines of Inquiry:• Exploring ideas and

• Expressing creativity

• Positive interactions

Play to Learn and Learn to Play

Reflection …..

Pulling it all together

Students demonstrate Agency

when they:

● Influence and direct their own

learning

● Make choices and voice their

own opinions, take action.

● Ask questions and express

wonderings

● Construct new meanings &

communicate new

understandings

● Participate in, and contribute

to the learning community

Learning & Teaching:

● Whole School POI - includes all

the Elements of the PYP; such

as:

● Key Concepts - deeper

thinking & Understanding● Related Concepts - knowledge

areas (Language, Math,

Science, Social Studies, PSPE

& Arts

● Approaches to Learning - skills

● Learning through Inquiry

● Reflection - Self & Peer based

on collaborative designed criteria

● Evidence of Understanding -

Assessment

The Learning Community:

● Supporting Learner Agency through Technology; design of

Learning Spaces and Student Leadership

● Strategies on connecting all aspects of the Learner,

Learning & Teaching and the Learning Community to

support a deep understanding of International Mindedness

(IBLP)

Putting it all together

Reflections


What are your new understandings?

How have your

wonderings and

questions been

answered?

What makes you

say this?Refer to your initial questions and

wonderings at the beginning of this

workshop (post it note recordings)

Your Questions

Exit Card

Biggest learning from today:

I used to think the PYP in the Primary Years was ……….

BUT now I think the PYP in the Primary Years is ……..

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