This past week, studio 5 students have reflected on their student driven units by writing the major part of the narrative on their evaluation of learning (EOLs). These documents serve as record of their learning, help communication between school and home about learning, and can be passed-on to next year’s school or teacher. We started…
For a while now, I have been typing away and planning a blog post from a literacy teacher perspective about the successes and failures of literacy learning in the studio model. This year’s literacy learning road has been long and complicated, and I find it pretty difficult to put into words… A inadequately recounted blog…
A staple of any PYP school is the student-led conference. And although there are many different approaches to planning for student-led conferences, generally all iterations of SLCs have some element of student voice, choice and owership. However that spectrum of voice, choice and ownership can vary greatly school to school, class to class. This year…
When planning as a team, we often ask ourselves “Why does this matter?”. We want to make certain that the maths we are teaching our students is as relevant and purposeful as possible. This often leads to long debates about pizza fractions, “when would I possibly use this?” conversations and math standards we’d love to…
I’d like to introduce you to my father, Val. My father is 76 years old, a child of World War 2, a retired railways engineer and a learner for who the adage of ‘study hard, go to university, get a degree, get a good job” worked. My grandparents were printers, and worked hard to…
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