WELCOME!
Find a seat at a table, organize your workspace, and then join us in our morning meeting circle.
Morning Meeting Agenda:
- Greeting
- Sharing:
- Think about why you became a teacher.
- Choose one experience you had this year that reminded you of why you became a teacher.
- Share with a partner
- Discuss the similarities and differences in your intentions and experiences
- Activity: Kahoot
- News
- Agenda for the day and essential agreements
Robin Long Ed.S
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“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn” – Ignacio Estrada
Mentimeter Poll: Student Engagement
To what degree do our values match our reality?
Barriers
In pairs, share barriers you may have encountered in your own learning journey or that of someone you know well.
Quickly debrief, answering the following questions.
Quickly debrief, answering the following questions.
- What did it feel like when relating barriers you faced in your own learning journey or that of someone you know?
- What did it feel like when you heard about someone else’s challenges that were encountered?
- What barriers did you both share? Do you think these are common? If so, why?
What barriers to learning do your students encounter?
- With your team, create a visual to show the barriers to learning your students encounter.
- Be prepared to share with the group.
Setting the Stage for Learning
PRE K - 2
3-5
How might we eliminate barriers for our students?
Our Dream Classroom
Work with your assigned group to design a dream classroom!
Guidelines:
"Beam me up Scotty!"
Guidelines:
- The space must represent an average size classroom.
- The space must be designed to break down barriers to learning while facilitating student agency and collaboration.
- Dream BIG! You have an unlimited budget but can only use current technology.
"Beam me up Scotty!"
"Creativity? A simple way to put it is
everyone engaged at the same time."
How might we facilitate change and growth?
IB Teacher Capabilities
- Take some time to personally reflect on your capabilities as an IB teacher.
- Set one SMART goal.
IB Curriculum
There Once Was a Boy...
"Students should feel connected to their learning, certain about how to plan their inquiry, and comfortable with its responsibility."
Trevor Mackenzie, Dive into Inquiry pg. 28
Central Ideas
Using the list we created from the song, A Beautiful Day, Write a central idea that:
- Is absolutely true, anywhere on Earth and anytime in history and the future
- MATTERS and inspires action
PYP Transdisciplinary Themes & Descriptors
Which concepts in your central idea connect to the concepts in the new theme descriptors? Do you want to revise your central idea?
Evaluating a Programme of Inquiry
The Animal Report
Specified Concepts: The Animal Report 2.0
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How do we make it all work?
PYP Planners
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The PYP Planning Process
What works for you?
Suggested Candidacy Timeline
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Programme Development
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Programme Standards and Practices 2020
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PSP 2014 to 2020 Connections Tool
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