PYP New Zealand Network Auckland Induction Day - Friday 4th March 2016

The PYP is all about inquiry. Starting point is the students' current understanding and the goal is to turn their experiences into new thinking. It is all about relevancy rather than quantity.

PYP is a framework to NZC.

Wonderwalls

Embrace questioning to help promote inquiry.
What questions do you have? No question is a stupid question.

Be Like Bill Task - Who We Are Activity. Using Learner Profile, Attitudes and Transdisciplinary Skills.

IB PYP Background

• Founded 1968 in Geneva, Switzerland
• Primary Years Programme (3-12), Middle Years Programme (11-16), Diploma Programme (16-18)
• PYP and Middle (Trans dis - subjects incorporated), Diploma (dis - one subject, next subject)

The Learner Profile is the only part that is the same across the three programmes.

Learner Profile

• 10 attributes of the profile.
• Front of most PYP documents.
• Promote attributes in child speak. Make it living with the students rather than just something that sits on the wall.

Ways to Promote the Learner Profile:

• Use deliberate acts of teaching e.g. principled - holding the door open for someone. Cards/Certificates for each attribute of the learner profile.
• Photos and what they think each attribute means (each person has to put their idea on the sheet with each attribute). In Room 8 we are... 10 photos showing each attribute placed below - part of class agreement.

Useful sites:

• pypattitudes.com
• thepedagogs.com (stickers)
• teacherspaidteachers
• inquiryschools.net
• Harvard Project Zero - Visible Thinking
• freeology - graphic organisers

Written Curriculum - page 10

• Plan with all teachers using PYP planner
• Summative task and evaluation
• Assessment - Formative and Summative

Knowledge - page 11

Shift Happens: Bringing Education into the 21st Century

Transdisciplinary Themes:

• These form your UOI.
• Use the key words in the descriptor to help you create a central idea.

Activities:

• Matching themes to their explanation
• Quiz using examples (the occ website)

Concepts - page 15

• PYP is a concept driven curriculum.
• Teacher questions come out of concepts
• Can have pictures round the room.
• The key concepts are presented as a question and are a provocation for the students.

Page 67 (Links to Subject Areas - Language, Maths, Science, Social Studies)

Activities:

• Concepts and Pictures - e.g. Twitter - What are our responsibilities? Come up with questions that are related to this. Link pictures to each concept and come up with key questions.

TD Skills - page 21

• Create goals using these skills.
• Use the skills as a point of reflection - "What TD skills did I use and how did I use them?"
• Make the activities authentic.

Activities/Tasks:

• Friar Diagram
• Rating selves in terms of skills 1-5 (Hand Signals) e.g. Organisation today?
• 'One TD Skill that you used well to was...' cards for end of day.

Attitudes - page 24

• "The rat with two eyes and five ears sails the seven seas"
• Attitude tree.
• Modelling real life examples of these attitudes in action.

Activities:

• Six word stories
• Be like Bill
• Essential Agreement
• Explore people in the news/books/films/TV and look at the attitudes that they are using
• Action plans
• Keep a diary/journal of the of the attitudes in their lives - use padlet and link to class and independent blogs. 'My PYP attitude diary'.
• Fail up - setting a task for students in class that is too difficult for them and get them to realise that they are not always going to succeed.

Taking Action - page 25

Nickelback - If Everyone Cared

• Why do we take action? To make a difference.
• Activities that will lead to some sort of action - Direct action, Indirect action, Raise awareness, Educate people.
• Action is something that happens during the unit.
• Use action to assess what students know or have taken from the central idea.
• It is about students intrinsically choosing to take action themselves.

PYP Planner - page 37-40

• Bubble Planner (two pages planning, two pages reflection)
• 6 units per year

Activities that highlight the use of inquiry:

• Petals around the Rose - five dice and looking at dot patterns. get students to figure out what the point of the activity is, to question, make connections, come up with theories, observe, be curious, take risks, evaluated decisions, reflected.
• Fish bowl - some students are participants, others are observers
• Connect, Extend, Challenge
• Tony Ryan's Thinkers Keys - Homework, Quick writes
• De Bono's 6 Thinking hats

What is inquiry? - page 28-30

The Fairy Scientist

• Inquiries can last from a few minutes up to a few weeks.

Kath Murdoch

• Thinking for themselves
• Teach students about thinking
• Provoke curiosity and wonderment
• Facilitate learning
• Making connections
• Big Picture
• Learning Intentions
• Process - 'Learning how to learn'

Example Provocation - Team Assembly - Teacher argument role play, deconstruct with students

Kahoot Quiz on MTPYPH