a place to weave, unravel, and re-weave PYP threads into fabrics of communication with a choice of threads, colors, patterns, and textures
Welcome to PYP threads!
PYP Threads Elsewhere on the Web
Photos
Videos
-
"Weird, or just different?"
Added by Kathy Epps
-
Recent photos added to the "Illustrating the PYP" group on Flickr.com
Loading feed
News from PYP Threads
Hover your mouse over the Netvibes tab, which links to our PYP Threads Netvibes page of PYP Threads members' schools' websites, and you'll see a link to another Netvibes page with links to the Netvibes sites created by PYP Threads members.
Hover your mouse over the Exhibition tab (which links to Tod Baker's ning, and you'll see links to 3 other nings of interest to PYP people: The Flat Classroom ning's PYP Group started by Leigh Newton, InquirySchools, a ning created by Sherryl Joseph, and Inquiry Teaching and Learning, a private ning started by Elaine Gwendolen Reimann.
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. If you click the blue Photos tab, you'll go to the Photos page for this ning.
The Diigo Group tab takes you to our home page at the social bookmark site Diigo.
In the left side bar, you'll find the RSS feed from our Diigo bookmarks page,
a links list 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
Inquiring Minds in Maths
Today we looked at exploring equivalent fractions during rotations. The rotations work wonders, it makes the classroom feel so amazing! The children show a higher level of independence already. The writing task is a good, focused creative response and served me well for formative assessment in relation to our unit of inquiry today.
What I enjoyed the most was watching the students use our Maths manipulative… Continue
Posted by Jessica Kelleher on February 2, 2010 at 11:28am
IB Learner Profile: Balanced
One of those is BALANCED. (continue at Stars & Clouds)
Posted by Jessica Kelleher on January 31, 2010 at 8:57pm
School Visits
I met up with Jane from Modena mainly to (continue at Stars & Clouds)
Posted by Jessica Kelleher on January 31, 2010 at 8:56pm
Forum
What kind preparation is needed for the priliminary visit of IBO 2 Replies
Hi Everyone I am trying to get acquianted into this new amazing world of IB-PYP .We are preparing ourself for our priliminary visit by IBO in month of March I would like to seek guiadance on wha…
Started by Bhavi Furia in Connections. Last reply by Bhavi Furia 2 hours ago.
Through out time, people have moved for different reasons. Central idea ,too narrow? 2 Replies
'We are looking into reasons why people move.Any ideas to that effect? We are still contemplating whether we narrow down the unit to reasons why people move and/or include the impact this movement ha…
Started by reem sardouk in Units of Inquiry. Last reply by reem sardouk 17 hours ago.
Concept in the early years 2 Replies
Dear all, In my school, we are preparing the PYP accreditation and we have some questions. The main one, is how do you use the concept in class. I mean for the age group 3 to 5 how do you explain w…
Started by celia espinasse in Early Years. Last reply by celia espinasse 23 hours ago.
Bringing in the new PYP Language Arts Scope & Sequence Documents 6 Replies
We're just going through the process of doing this, and bringing about a philosophy shift from grade level-specific benchmarks to more of an emphasis on developmental continuums. I'd love to share ap…
Tagged: documents, curriculum, continuum, developmental, scope
Started by Sam Sherratt in Language. Last reply by Jessica Kelleher Feb 7.
How do you digitise the process? 1 Reply
This year I have been trying to create digital portfolios and not have any paper portfolios. One of the areas I have been struggling with is how to digitise the process behind some of the units. At t…
Tagged: portfolios, electronic, process
Started by Andy Birch in Assessment. Last reply by Jessica Kelleher Feb 5.
Mathematics Resources for PYP 4 Replies
Hi, We are looking at getting a resource with assessments for teaching maths to improve the scores of our ISA test results. Would like to know what other PYP schoosls use. What are your views on usin…
Started by Geraldine Rasiah in Assessment. Last reply by Jessica Kelleher Feb 5.
Any summative assessment ideas for a "Who we are" unit on religion? 10 Replies
Dear all,I am currently in the middle of a "Who we are" unit with the central idea "Religion influences a people's way of living and thinking". Since my school has just started implementing the PYP,…
Tagged: religion, assessment, summative
Started by Annie Levasseur in Assessment. Last reply by Kathy Epps Feb 5.
Transdisciplinarity
Did I even spell that right!! I am wondering what other school's do to ensure their units are truly transdisciplinary in nature and how the specialist teachers link! Sometimes when I ask myself this…
Started by Daran Litchfield in Units of Inquiry Feb 1.
Invitation to join 'Peace Tie Project' with BISS 1 Reply
Hello from Beijing (BISS) International School. Here is a special message and request from Grade 5 students. Dear Students and Teachers, We are students in Grade 5 at Beijing BISS International Scho…
Started by Julie Lindsay in Library. Last reply by Zeynep Feb 1.
Profiles, attitudes and skills 12 Replies
Hello Everybody, I am searching for simple tried and tested ideas of how to meaningfully involve the profiles, attitudes and skills into our teaching and learning. I frequently get asked this questio…
Tagged: learner_profile, attitudes
Started by Daran Litchfield in Learner Profile. Last reply by Malini Ghosh Feb 1.
Groups - 6 transdisciplinary themes
Unfortunately, there's no way to subscribe to activity within Groups - you'll have to use the general "recent activity" RSS feed.
Groups
-
French and PYP
6 members
-
Tech Integration
37 members
-
Visual Arts Primary
28 members
-
Librarians
60 members
-
Sharing the planet
72 members
-
How we organize ourselves
60 members
-
How the world works
61 members
-
How we express ourselves
63 members
-
Where we are in place an…
53 members
-
Who we are
59 members
2009, 2010 Exhibitions
"The exhibition represents a significant event in the life of both the school and student, synthesizing the essential elements of the programme and sharing them with the whole school community. It is an opportunity for students to exhibit the attributes of the student profile that have been developing throughout their engagement with the programme." (IBO)
Latest Activity
About
Badge
IB WEB LINKS
IBtv has been set up to show and share positive stories from the IB community.
Online Curriculum Center
International Baccalaureate
IB Community Theme: Sharing our humanity
OPLS blog
DSI: The IB’s Digital Space Initiative
The IBO is on Twitter as iborganization and is saving bookmarks at Delicious
IB online: The IB online media team blog
Great video on using Campaign Monitor (formerly Mailbuild)
We use Campaign Monitor extensively at the IB and we think it’s great. One thing that is often an issue for us, working in offices all round the world, is training new users. Even though it’s a simple system to use, not everyone has the time or patience to figure everything out without help. Thanks to Digett [...]New IB Help and Support blog
We just launched a Help and support blog which we built in a matter of days and is our first attempt at working with Wordpress trilingually. It’s been fairly popular and seems to be quite robust, but we still have a few issues with translating the full text of our templates. Does anyone have any experience [...]Photo Credits:
cc licensed flickr photo shared by joelogon
The default member photo was created from
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Namona (ma che fine ha fatto?) Buon Nataleeeee
© 2010 Created by Kathy Epps on Ning. Create a Ning Network!
