PYP - A Holistic transdisciplinary and coherent learning experience

1. Celebrating diversity through modelling internationally-minded values and dispositions

2. Breaks cultural barriers, strengthens relationship and hence build international mindedness

3. Role of language

3.1. Helps in cognitive, personal development and personal identity

3.2. Multilingualism promotes learners to be independent, focused and motivated

3.3. Creates opportunities to collaborate, reflect on ideas and experiences

3.4. Used expressively to convey empathy, compassion and respect

4. Approaches to learning

4.1. Support student agency

4.2. Develop cognitive, metacognitive skills and dispositions

4.3. Help students prepare for, and demonstrate learning through, meaningful assessment.

4.4. Provide a common language that students and teachers can use to reflect on and articulate on the process of learning.

4.5. Must be embedded in the unit planners

4.6. Students must reflect upon them during their learning

5. International Mindedness

5.1. Inquiring into local, national and global challenges and opportunities

5.2. Engaging in dialogues and understanding perspectives through expert talks, skype sessions

5.3. Expanding intercultural understanding through different learning engagements

5.4. Co-constructing learning environments to reflect culture and language

5.5. Involving parents and creating a sense of belonging within the learning community and beyond.

5.6. Students can develop international mindedness by being aware, sharing and caring, taking principled action and by being open-minded

6. Transdisciplinary learning

6.1. Helps students build strong connections

6.2. Learning is supported and complemented by different subject areas.

6.3. Helps students construct new meanings

6.4. Students become independent and life long learners

6.5. Students understand local and global perspectives

7. Collaborative learning

7.1. Supports holistic transdisciplinary and coherent learning experience

7.2. Agree on ways to document, communicate and share the ongoing process of planning and reflection.

7.3. Helps to understand how the expertise and perspectives of individuals contribute to the fusion of existing knowledge and new discoveries.

7.4. Identify shared values and understandings around the benefits of collaboration

7.5. Have access to the people and materials that inform and support the process

8. Expressing wonderings and curiosity which can be evident through wonderwall

9. Promote enthusiasm for life long learning

10. Concept driven learning

10.1. Constructs new meanings and helps gain deeper understanding.

10.2. Creates lifelong and independent learners

10.3. Has a transdisciplinary learning approach which transcends subject borders

10.4. Encourages student led learning where teachers are facilitators

10.5. Promotes collaborative work, development of skills, student dispositions and international mindedness

10.6. Empower students by promoting agency and develops self-efficacy in students.

11. Agency

11.1. Constructing learning goals, learning intentions, success criteria

11.2. Co-constructing Essential Agreements

11.3. Designing learning spaces- learning centres, resources, learning engagements etc

11.4. Student led inquiries

11.5. Collaborative learning

11.6. Expressing views, ideas and understanding others perspective

11.7. Student reflections and peer feedback

11.8. Supporting Student ideas for taking action

11.9. Self and Peer assessments

12. Action

12.1. Integral to the PYP learning process

12.2. Develops sense of responsibility through individual and collective action

12.3. Collaboratively work to identify the purpose and plan action

12.4. Reflect upon the action taken

12.5. Empowering students by giving them a sense of purpose through learning and enabling their voice to shine through

13. Learner Profile Attributes

13.1. The 10 Learner Profile Attributes outline ‘who we want to be’ - Inquirers; thinkers; open minded; caring; courageous; well balanced; knowledgeable; principled; reflective; communicators

13.2. Develops student disposition

13.3. Are key steps for student goal settings and designing a personalized learning plan

13.4. Help develop Internationally minded students