These six posters represent the 6 units of inquiry your child will experience at each grade during his/her years at Findley. (This year, since we are new to the process, some grade levels will only be teaching 5 units.) This space looks unfinished because it is! As your child's classroom uncovers each "central idea" during the year, they will post it under the classroom PoI (programme of inquiry). Teachers don't tell students the programme of inquiry at the beginning of the year, because they want students to discover the central ideas for themselves through inquiry-based activities. Below you can see a draft of our current programme of inquiry. You will see that some boxes are blank. This is very common for a school in this part of the process of becoming a PYP school. PLEASE NOTE: Even if a unit says "needs to be planned" or is blank, there has been some planning put in place, but isn't firm enough to put onto the programme of inquiry. You can enlarge the document and zoom in to see a specific grade level.
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A big part of the Primary Years Programme is having students take part in establishing the community agreements. If students help make up classroom agreements, they have greater ownership of the classroom. This empowers them to solve problems, self-direct learning, and take action.
This process begins the first week and conintues throughout September. It looks different at each grade level, but usually starts with the teacher asking, "How do we want our classroom to feel? How should we behave so that everyone is successful?" Below are the products of discussions from classes developing agreements together. |
AuthorThis blog is written by Amber McLandrich, the school's PYP Coordinator. Archives
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