2012 2013 Parent Induction to the PYP Exhibition @ NIST

Thursday 21st March, 2013 7.45am 8.45am

Where We Are in Place and Time

Playing with ideas reveals possibilities and can cause shifts in thinking
Transdisciplinary Unit of Inquiry

Social Studies Strand: Continuity and change through time

PSPE Strand: Identity

Where We Are in Place and Time

Playing with ideas reveals possibilities and can cause shifts in thinking Broad and abstract Universal in application Timeless Represented by different examples Two or more concepts stated in a relationship

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Purpose
Doing something that matters

What would your photo show?

Adults will:
Share what would be in their photo with the other adults sitting at their group Answer the questions they are asked by the student

Students will:
Listen carefully to the conversations of the adults Interview their adult using the 5 why questions Record their adults answers on the cardboard strip Students feedback

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Purpose
Doing something that matters

What would your photo show?

Adults will:
Share what would be in their photo with the other adults sitting at their group Answer the questions they are asked by the student

Students will:
Listen carefully to the conversations of the adults Interview their adult using the 5 why questions Record their adults answers on the cardboard strip Students feedback

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Play
Creatively engaging our imagination in ways that make time disappear

While you are creatively engaged, what are you: - Thinking? (Head) - Doing? (Body) - Feeling? (Heart)

Play
Creatively engaging our imagination in ways that make time disappear

While you are creatively engaged, what are you: - Thinking about? (Head) - Doing? (Hands) - Feeling? (Heart)
Adults will: Share their thoughts, feelings and actions with other adults in their group Answer the questions they are asked by the student Students will: Listen carefully to the conversations of the adults Interview their adult using the three play questions Record their adults answers on the cardboard strip

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Play
Creatively engaging our imagination in ways that make time disappear

While you are creatively engaged, what are you: - Thinking about? (Head) - Doing? (Hands) - Feeling? (Heart)
Adults will: Share their thoughts, feelings and actions with other adults in their group Answer the questions they are asked by the student Students will: Listen carefully to the conversations of the adults Interview their adult using the three play questions Record their adults answers on the cardboard strip

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Ponder
Naturally thinking, questioning and seeking

What natural thinking is taking place as you are engaged in play?

What questions do you have?

What new skills do you need to develop?

How will you find out?

Who will you talk with?

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Ponder
Naturally thinking, questioning and seeking
What natural thinking is taking place as you are engaged in play? What questions do you have? What new skills do you need to develop? What new information do you need to acquire? Adults will: Students will:

Share their natural thinking with Listen carefully to the other adults in their group conversations of the adults Answer the questions they are Interview their adult using the asked by the student four ponder questions Record their adults answers on the cardboard strip

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Ponder
Naturally thinking, questioning and seeking
What natural thinking is taking place as you are engaged in play? What questions do you have? What new skills do you need to develop? What new information do you need to acquire? Adults will: Students will:

Share their natural thinking with Listen carefully to the other adults in their group conversations of the adults Answer the questions they are Interview their adult using the asked by the student four ponder questions Record their adults answers on the cardboard strip

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Possibilities
The opportunities that emerge as we think about what we are doing

What opportunities emerge as:

your questions are answered?

your skill levels develop? your understandings grow?

Possibilities
The opportunities that emerge as we think about what we are doing What opportunities emerge as: Your questions are answered? Your skills level develops Your understandings grow?

Adults will:

Students will:

Share the Listen carefully possibilities that to the they see conversations of emerging, with the adults other adults at Interview their their table adult using the Answer the four possibility questions they questions are asked by the Record their student adults answers on the cardboard strip

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Possibilities
The opportunities that emerge as we think about what we are doing What opportunities emerge as: Your questions are answered? Your skills level develops Your understandings grow?

Adults will:

Students will:

Share the Listen carefully possibilities that to the they see conversations of emerging, with the adults other adults at Interview their their table adult using the Answer the four possibility questions they questions are asked by the Record their student adults answers on the cardboard strip

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Would anybody like to share?

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Action
Successful inquiry leads to responsible action
(Making the PYP happen: A curriculum framework for international primary education pp.25)

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Time Line
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NIST PYP Exhibition Staging Thursday 9th May and Friday 10th May, 2013 Exhibition opening for parents only, morning of Thursday 9th May Practise run through for the Year 6 students on Wednesday 8th May

Check Points
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Regular check points Parents invited into classrooms to become part of the process Parents as coaches

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Home Learning
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Teacher set or monitored Focused on the exhibition Personal reading should continue

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My role as a Parent?

Your role as a parent: Providing practical assistance when possible - connecting them with people who are knowledgeable about their issue, helping them get to visits/interviews, etc (SS) Attending the celebration on May 9th, 2012 and celebrating the completion of the incredible independent inquiry that your child has been involved in (SS) Not critically comparing your childs Exhibition to that of another All the Exhibition Journeys will be completely different (JK)

Not pressuring your child just let it happen! The teachers will be guiding the students and making sure that everyone achieves (JK)

Your role as a parent: Play a supporting role the key word is support, be an encourager(GD) Recognising the exhibition as a whole process and not as a product (GD) If possible, attending the class Checkpoints sessions (CW) Respecting your childs process it is their work and it should be done by them (CW) Asking questions about what your child is doing and what they think about what theyre learning (CW)

Listen to what your child tells you about his/her progress (JB)
Talk with your children about their learning in their home language(JB x2)

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Questions?