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Online Teaching with the IB PYP- A Starting Point
I am going to begin with applauding each and everyone of you, my dear colleagues, wherever you may be in the world, as we endure this CORVID 19 pandemic and work together to keep educating our young learners and making their lives as normal as possible given the incredible abnormality of the entire situation. I’m hoping, by sharing a few of my own trials and successes, that I can lessen some of the concerns you my have and help you to recognise that we are all feeling the same feelings. Teachers, children and parents alike.
We were thrown into this online learning situation with only 12 hours notice. Italy announced on a Sunday evening that schools would be closed the next day, for one week. Three weeks later, we re still working through it and growing from it! Stay positive, stay strong and focus on the silver lining of this cloud.
We have since learned that our children are incredibly positive, incredibly independent and incredibly willing. Their beautifully innocent honesty and ...
Developing Thinking Skills with the IB PYP
Hello again fellow inquiry teachers! This article is going to be expanding on my previous post where I was sharing my favourite books for developing thinkers and inquirers.
Looking for ideas for books? Read the article here.
Over the course of the next few weeks, I’m going to be breaking down the IB Approaches to Learning Thinking Skills and sharing strategies for bringing a greater awareness and understanding of the sub-skills to the children. If you are a subscriber to my blog, you already know that I send you free samples of my new resources and examples of tools I’ve used. Look out for those in your inbox over the next few weeks. If you’d like to become a subscriber and receive those FREE PYP teaching tools, be sure to add your name and sign up below.
In the beginning….
At the beginning of every school year, I always begin with an emphasis on building a community of learners within a culture of inquir...
