Identifying your own capabilities as an IB PYP Teacher

 

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The reflection helps us develop our understanding more deeply and to make our intuitive knowledge shareable with others. ... By reflecting we can grow and develop our understanding more deeply so that our work continues to improve the next time we roll through the design process.

Identify your own capabilities as an IB PYP educator and evaluate your strength and weakenss.

Undertake personal inquiry, reflection, and action to inform their practice

An IB PYP Educator reflect on and apply their own inquiry experience to the design of inquiry-based learning and teaching in the classroom. Identify their own professional learning needs and engage in relevant development experiences. Critically engage with professional literature and experiences to reflect on and refine learning and teaching. Demonstrate creative and flexible problem-solving in their practice.

Build/develop conceptual understanding within and across subjects

Know how learning within disciplines/subjects progresses.Design learning around transdisciplinary and disciplinary concepts aimed at deepening students’ understanding of complex ideas. Integrate transdisciplinary and disciplinary concepts, knowledge, and skills in a way that supports a coherent learning experience for students. Provide opportunities for students to make connections and transfer learning to new contexts and across subjects. Use key concepts as a tool for inquiry.

Design inquiries using local and global context

Identify appropriate contexts and examples for learning that have meaning and relevance to individuals and groups of students. Understand that situating learning in global contexts supports students' understanding of human commonalities (for example, through transdisciplinary themes). Design curriculum that reflects the heritages, languages, and cultures of students and other learning community members. Support students to initiate and engage in their own inquiries. Promote student reflection and action in response to their learning.

Build and maintain collaborative relationships

Establish, engage and maintain collaborative relationships that support the wellbeing of the learning community. Use networks including social media to appropriately build and develop relationships that support one another. Negotiate ideas and understandings with colleagues and other members of the learning community. Provide opportunities for student collaboration.

Foster supportive environments that remove barriers to learning

Select teaching approaches, resources, technologies, learning, and assessment activities that are inclusive and effective for diverse students. Support student innovation and creativity through a cycle of inquiry-action reflection. Provide and maintain an environment within which students feel safe (physically, culturally, socially, emotionally) to be responsible for their own learning. Make thoughtful use of resources—time, people, places, spaces, and physical materials—to develop flexible and diverse approaches to learning and teaching. Use technology to extend when, where and how learning takes place.

Utilize assessment to inform learning and teaching

Demonstrate through their practice that assessment is integral to learning and teaching. Plan for balanced and effective assessment that monitors, documents, measures, and reports on learning. Analyze and utilize assessment data and evidence to reflect on and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching and learning. Support the capability of students in assessing their own learning. Provide feedback to others and feedforward to the next steps. Contribute to and support the assessment culture within the learning community.