1. The Primary Years Programme at Advanced Learning Schools
Open House
November 10, 2009
Christelle Thompson
PYP Coordinator

2. Education for Life The IB mission statement
The International Baccalaureate Organization aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the IBO works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment. These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.

3. PYP MYP DP Transdisciplinary Integration Concurrency of learning
Programme of Inquiry Areas of Interaction TOK
Action Community Service CAS
ASSESSMENT
LANGUAGES
Exhibition Personal Project Extended Essay

4. The Primary Years Programme
The PYP is a curriculum framework
ALS decides what is taught in a sequential manner, which resources are used and how those are used.
The PYP promotes using inquiry, planning assessment ahead of time, and building on what students know, from their personal experience to a shared global commonality.

5. the construction of knowledge
The PYP promotes
the construction of knowledge
Linking new knowledge with existing knowledge
Making connections
Helping students in their inherent need to make sense of their world

6. The PYP promotes inquiry as a pedagogical approach
Inquiry is the process initiated by the learners which moves them from their current level of understanding to a new and deeper level of understanding.

7. Concepts over content Emphasis on meaning and understanding
What do we want students to understand?
8 key concepts drive the inquiry
powerful, significant, universal central ideas

8. The PYP requires valid and
varied assessment
Feedback as information for students,
teachers, parents, …
Process and outcome matter
Accommodates multiple intelligences
and “ways of knowing”
Internal assessment by school only
Culminating exhibition in the Grade 6
© IBO September 2000

9. The PYP promotes international
mindedness
An understanding of the meaning and importance of culture (starting with one's own, but leading to that of others)
A study of issues of global concern (such as health, the environment, human rights and conflict resolution)
Exploration of the different dimensions of the human condition
© IBO September 2000

10. Additional Benefits of an international education:
Develops broad critical thinking skills
Encourages students to solve problems through action
Incorporates proven strategies and best practices from national and international educational research
Comprehensive, inquiry-based framework
Prepares students for the future!

11. thinkers communicators risk-takers knowledgeable caring open-minded
Advanced Learning Schools, as a PYP school, strives towards developing an international person.
From the PYP perspective, an international person is a person with the attributes described in the IB Learner Profile.
inquirers
thinkers
communicators
risk-takers
knowledgeable
principled
caring
open-minded
balanced
reflective