a place to weave, unravel, and re-weave PYP threads into fabrics of communication with a choice of threads, colors, patterns, and textures
PYP Threads Elsewhere on the Web
PYP Threads Members on the Web (Wikis and other web pages without RSS feeds)
The Library Media Center at Stanley Makowski ECC Council First Grade Shanghai Grade 5 Music Wiki SRIS Primary Library Wiki PYP Librarians Resources
ASF Mexico Lower School Library
RAKESS PYP Welcomes you...
Creative Teacher
Mrs. A's Kinders
Miss Miller's 4th Grade
Indonesian Music Teachers Society
Room 3 Page about the Auckland Harbor Bridge Wiki
Darrin Schumacher's Home Page
Mathex Wiki
Team B Making a Difference
CIS Library
Welcome to Team B
PYP2B on LibraryThing
Pyp Learner Profile on LibraryThing
The World My Children Will Inherit Wiki
The Resource Hub for Educators
Bilkent Class 5 English
How to find your way around this ning
Here's a guide to the links at the top of this page:
NEW - There's a new tab "Sharing PYP practice". Clicking there will take you to a new blog from the IB PYP office intended for "Sharing examples of what PYP implementation looks like in IB World schools" Visit this new initiative from the PYP, leave a comment, and subscribe to the RSS feed.
When you click the Photos tab, you'll go to the Photos page for this ning. Hover your mouse over the Photos tab, and you'll see a link to a group on Flickr called "Illustrating the PYP". You're invited to join the group there, and post your photos.There's also a link to the Visible Thinking Group on Flickr, and to the Librarian Edge page on Flickr.
Hover your mouse over the Nings tab; you'll see links to other nings of interest to PYP people: the PYP Group on the Flat Classrooms ning, (started by Leigh Newton), Library 2.0, and Teacher Librarian, Talkabout Primary Languages, Art Education 2.0, K12 Online Conference, and Classroom 2.0 (a huge education ning, with more than 50,000 members, and 660 Groups!)
Hover your mouse over the Netvibes tab; you'll see a link to our PYP Threads Netvibes page of PYP Threads members' schools' websites, and to another Netvibes page with links to the Netvibes sites created by PYP Threads members.
The Diigo Group tab takes you to our home page at the social bookmark site Diigo.
The PYP Threads Daily tab is visible to members only. When you click on the tab, a new web page will open, and you'll see a newspaper-style page which organizes links shared on Twitter by PYP Threads members into an easy to read newspaper-style format.
In the left side bar, you'll find the RSS feed from our Diigo bookmarks page, a links lists of blogs and photo groups of PYP Threads people (let me know if you have a blog, photo gallery, video site, start page, etc., that you'd like linked here), and a feed of the Tweets of PYP folks who have listed Twitter accounts in their Profile Information. You can see the full page at Twitter.
Blog Posts
THe Exhibition and the Garr of Presenting
My school recently held their 2012 PYP exhibition. For those who are not affiliated with the PYPin any way, The Exhibition is the showcase event of the PYP. Teachers decide on the Transdisciplinary Theme (In this case Sharing The Planet), students select something they are interested in, find another who is interested in the same issue, together formulate a Central Idea, devise Guiding Questions and investigate. Our school, like most international schools, has a transient student…
ContinuePosted by Travis Ion on May 19, 2012 at 2:51am
Using a wiki to encourage collaboration and parent involvement in Kindergrten
Throughout the year, as part of a whole class inquiry into Writing to Entertain, the children have written many different fictional works and have taken several through to the publishing stage. They have had lots of opportunities to work collaboratively with the other children, both in YIS and in other countries through Kinderplay global projects.
Today I introduced the children to a collaborative writing wiki I had set up for last…
ContinuePosted by Tasha cowdy on May 12, 2012 at 10:00am
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Handwriting 6 Replies
We are researching handwriting at our school--trying to put a policy in place. We are a PYP school. Other schools' policies out there? Who teaches handwriting? How? How often? Stand alone?Continue
Tags: PYP, handwriting, language
Started by Kristen Blum in Language. Last reply by Christianne Cowie yesterday.
Allocating time: Specialist subject teachers and homeroom 8 Replies
I'd love to find out what other schools do to balance specialist subject teaching with homeroom teaching.At present in Upper Primary students have 2 50 minute periods of French, 2 of Music, 2 of PE,…Continue
Started by Moira Noble in Library. Last reply by Tanya de Hoog yesterday.
Displaying central ideas - should we do it? 78 Replies
Hi Everyone The 'elephant' in the roomThis subject has been niggling at me for quite some time. I think it's fair to say that there is an assumption in most PYP schools that we should have the…Continue
Tags: central, ideas, christopher, pyp, frost
Started by Christopher frost in Units of Inquiry. Last reply by Christopher frost on Thursday.
ACARA 6 Replies
Next week I am going to begin to address our Programme of Inquiry. I thought I would start with Where we are in place and time and try to look at what ACARA says we need to do in history, what is…Continue
Started by Jacqui Ellison in Units of Inquiry. Last reply by Meaghan Leslie Walker on Thursday.
visual art scope and sequence 5 Replies
Hey everyone,I am in the process of developing the visual art scope and sequence for my school in Delhi India. And to be honest I am a little overwhelmed at the moment by the sheer size of the…Continue
Started by Aditi Singh in Inquiry. Last reply by Mark Exton on Wednesday.
PYP art in the early years 1 Reply
does anyone have any unit planners (stand alone or integrated) to share for early years (pre-school) art? i am having a hard time trying to reconcile my more experiential philosophy of art in the…Continue
Started by Kristin Anson in Early Years. Last reply by Mark Exton on Wednesday.
PYP Skills assessment in the Early Years
HiWe are currently reviewing how we assess in our Early Years classes to make sure that we can say exactly where our children are developmentally. One thing we are working on is looking at developing…Continue
Started by Kate Bowen in Early Years on Wednesday.
How we express ourselves ideas needed!! 4 Replies
Hi,We are still in our infancy with PYP and IB at our school. We often meet and plan and collaborate, but as many of our staff are still awaiting IB workshops, we need some ideas to get us up and…Continue
Started by Tristan Lee in Units of Inquiry. Last reply by cesar barrero on Tuesday.
Exhibition - "Sharing The Planet" 4 Replies
Hello everyone,This year`s exhibition will be "Sharing The Planet". Apart from the usual "pollution is bad", "urban growth is encroaching on the natural environment of flora and fauna" and…Continue
Started by Travis Ion in PYP Exhibition. Last reply by Christopher frost on Tuesday.
Recommendations
I have to write up the recommendations for the IBO. They are the ones that the visiting team at Authorisation singles out. I am not sure how to go about this. Can someone please add some helpful…Continue
Started by Jacqui Ellison in Professional Development May 11.
Latest Activity
Christianne Cowie replied to Kristen Blum's discussion Handwriting"Hi to all,
In my school we are also debating the issue of handwriting. We are not actually debating the need or not for handwriting to be legible, proportionate, etc. we are debating the model. I know some schools are even questioning the need for…"
Sharon Noronha replied to Sharon Noronha's discussion I need help with my planner on "How we express ourselves" in the group Early Years"Thanks Maureen,
We used to do the unit on Nursery rhymes, poems and songs through the year too but I think it should be a different unit as we do do a lot of songs, poems etc any which way in all the units :).
I'm still giving "using play…"
Tanya de Hoog replied to Moira Noble's discussion Allocating time: Specialist subject teachers and homeroom"Hi Moira,
We are on an 8 day cycle, with 8 40 minute periods/day. Per cycle students receive 8 French periods,3 music periods, 2 design and tech periods, 1 double art period, 6 or 7 PE ( 1/2 year of swimming when 7 periods), and 1 library for…"
Travis Ion posted a blog postTHe Exhibition and the Garr of Presenting
My school recently held their 2012 PYP exhibition. For those who are not affiliated with the PYPin any way, The Exhibition is the showcase event of the PYP. Teachers decide on the Transdisciplinary Theme (In this case Sharing The Planet), students select something they are interested in, find another who is interested in the same issue, together formulate a Central Idea, devise Guiding Questions and investigate. Our school, like most international schools, has a transient student population…See More
Maureen Waldorf replied to Sharon Noronha's discussion I need help with my planner on "How we express ourselves" in the group Early Years"Hi Sharon,
I always find myself having a lot of niggling thoughts about How we express ourselves, precisely because the children should be expressing themselves through all different creative forms and media all the time. So I think that it's…"
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Online Conferences and Courses
"DigiTools in the Classroom"
A free online workshop from EVO
Starts 9 January 2012
By the end of this workshop, participants will have
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understood the processes through which students can successfully use digital tools to enhance their learning
seen examples of different types of digital tools in use
suggested activities based on the tools they explore
networked with other participants and shared visually appealing and conten-rich possibilities for their educational contexts
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enhanced their media literacy skills to meaningfully incorporate digital production into their lesson plans
explored the different tools as a sandbox for future classroom use and shared with peers
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Classroom2.0 LIVE
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IB WEB LINKS
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IB TV IBtv has been set up to show and share positive stories from the IB community.
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IB Blogs link to this page
The IBO is on Twitter as iborganization and is saving bookmarks at Delicious, and on Facebook.
IB online: The IB online media team blog
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The Simón Bolívar United World College was opened in 1986 by the Prince of Wales and eminent agriculturalist Dr Luis Marcano Coello. Situated at the base of the Venezuelan Andes, the 676 hectare farm is home to students mainly from the Caribbean and Latin America and is one of the few UWC colleges that does [...]International Baccalaureate student develops free IB iPhone app
When you think about what it is to be an IB student, volunteering your time to make things happen is one of the characteristics that comes to mind. A few months ago, we received an email from Peter Bryan, an IB student, who volunteered his time to develop the IB’s first public iPhone app. It [...]Photo Credits:
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Who's blogging together about their PYP Classrooms?
If you are part of a group blog, and would like to have it listed here, send a message to me through the ning
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