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Here's a guide to the links at the top of this page:

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

Jessica Kelleher

Inquiring Minds in Maths

From Stars and Clouds

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

Jessica Kelleher

IB Learner Profile: Balanced

The IB Learner Profile is something that shapes my days. As a PYP teacher, coordinator and learner, I feel that I should always strive to show the attributes of the learner profile.

One of those is BALANCED. (continue at Stars & Clouds)

Posted by Jessica Kelleher on January 31, 2010 at 8:57pm

Jessica Kelleher

School Visits

Getting to visit schools is great. Today I was a visitor at the International School of Modena, along with my colleagues Serena (Music/Italian) and Dania (Italian).

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

Bhavi Furia

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.

reem sardouk

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.

celia espinasse

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.

Sam Sherratt

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.

Andy Birch

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.

Geraldine Rasiah

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.

Annie Levasseur

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.

Daran Litchfield

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.

Julie Lindsay

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.

Daran Litchfield

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

There are 6 Groups for our ning: Sharing the planet, How we organize ourselves, How the world works, How we express ourselves, Who we are, and Where we are in place and time. Those names are familiar to any PYP teacher! so you can imagine what might be discussed or posted in those groups. They're meant as focus areas for our discussion and sharing. Start a discussion on the forum, or post photos or examples specific to the themes from all areas of your teaching and learning.

Unfortunately, there's no way to subscribe to activity within Groups - you'll have to use the general "recent activity" RSS feed.

Groups

2009, 2010 Exhibitions

Here on this ning, Yvonne Barrett started a discussion in the Exhibition Group. The tab named "Exhibition" links to another ning at, PYP Exhibition: collaboration for an exhibition, which you might want to join. Tod Baker created it last year as "A place for conversations about PYP 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)

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Pisirica, DavisJ, meenakshi and 3 more joined PYP threads
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Thank you so much Jacqueline for your great help Iwill definetly work towards it Bhavi
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Hah, how challenging! Loved it!
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Dear Bhavi, Welcome aboard! A preliminary visit may take place at several points during the first phases of becoming a PYP school. The IB visiting team will be looking to see, in particular, that the leadership of your school understands what bec…
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We are having our visit for certification next 19th...everybody is preparing evidence, planners and the best of attitudes... disciplinary units about Color for 3rd graders and Patterns for 6th graders... send us good vibes...
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Thanks for your reply,very helpful indeed.This is my first year as a third grade teacher(been teaching gr.4). Actually,starting close to home is a greaa way to start. Unfortunately, we has a sad incident some 2 weeks ago in Beirut(Lebanon). An Ethio…
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Hi Joyce, I thought i'd give you an example of how i'm integrating with a unit now...the Grade 1's are doing a unit called Let's Go-- central idea is: transportation systems are developed to meet the needs of a community. i kept that and invented m…
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