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Preparing for our end of the year party means these sweet photos hanging down two sides of our room. We used first day of school pictures and end of the year photos and the kids love them! #endoftheyear #ibpyp #ibpypteacher #teachersfollowteachers #teachersofinstagram #iteach1st #iteachfirst #iteach
Creative Writing
Just put some objects randomly in a cup or a small box for each student and ask them to write a story about the objects they find in their cupsThese index sticky notes show one of the characters they had to include in their stories They can be super creative and funny and their brilliant ideas will blow your mind away ✍
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This week, we’re going to try our first Choice Board! About half of my class is done with their “Who We Are” summative assessment. For my early finishers, they get to choose what activity that want to focus on next that best fits their learning style! This will allow them to extend what they know about our unit topic while learning in a way that interest them! This choice board template is free for you on my TPT. Have you tried Choice Boards in your classroom? .
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Next week, we have our student led conferences. Our students have worked SO hard this year and we really wanted them to make reflections. While telling first graders to reflect on their year may not yield thinking about all aspects of their year So we created this reflection sheet and they were really having thoughtful conversations. #ibpyp #ibpypteacher #teachersfollowteachers #teachersofinstagram #iteach #iteachfirst #endoftheyear
Implementing Student Agency
Hi there!
Student Agency” is somehow considered to be the new buzzword among IB teachers, however it’s not altogether new. This term was introduced through the 2018 PYP’s enhancements released last year. It’s in fact a shift towards making learners more autonomous to implement and improve their problem-solving and decision-making skills. Our job as teachers is to facilitate their active participation and help them to have their own voice.
“Agency is the power to take meaningful and intentional action, and acknowledges their rights and responsibilities of the individual, supporting voice, choice and ownership...”
IBO November 2017
The aim of Student Agency is actually creating more space and opportunities for students to set goals, choose their own differentiated activities and projects along the lines of inquiry based on their interests, needs and curiosity in a learner-centered environment.
There are obviously numerous ways to give your students A Voice, get them reflect on their learning process and actively engage them in making some of the decisions for their class. “Essential Agreements” could be one of the first activities done in the first week of the academic year. Self grouping and Flexible seating can also make them think where they can focus better on tasks in hand.
I decided to use this board as part of the ongoing process of implementing autonomy to let them be heard and make them feel they can make decisions as important members of an active community.
I’d love to know how you introduce agency and give voice to your students in your classrooms. It totally depends on your group of students and how much autonomy they may have been exposed to earlier.
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Only took me my entire lunch break, but I now have all my little people up on the window the kids couldn’t stop smiling when they came in! .
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Exploring fluoro paint printing with kinders today
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Our “who we are” inquiry poster is filled! I love introducing new I.B. Units and seeing where students lead the discussion. Some deeper ideas they wrote down were: my ancestors, my DNA, my passions, religion, my language, nature, my body, my emotions, etc... They were super engaged and kept adding ideas to the poster throughout the day. Afterward, we looked at the 6 transdisciplinary themes and determined that we were going to focus on the theme “Who We Are” throughout this unit.
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