THE PYP @ CGES
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
7:00 PM
All Purpose Room
THE IB EXPERIENCE IN MCPS
„  http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ayDpanLPd0A&list=UU_lFLRgazwc3vttgNKtM0ww&index=1&feature
=plcp
VISION
„  As an International
Baccalaureate Primary Years
Programme World School we
will provide an engaging and
open-minded learning
community where all members
collaborate respectfully to
challenge and motivate one
another within a safe and
nurturing environment.
MISSION
„  We develop and support a
successful and inclusive
environment where all students
actively participate in and
assume ownership of their
learning. As a unified staff and
community, we create a
rigorous instructional program,
which promotes globally
minded, creative, confident, and
reflective lifelong learners.
IB MISSION
„  The International Baccalaureate 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 organization 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.
LEARNER PROFILE
IB learners strive to be:
„  Inquirers
„  Knowledgeable
„  Thinkers
„  Communicators
„  Principled
„  Open-minded
„  Caring
„  Risk-takers
„  Balanced
„  Reflective
The attributes of the learner profile express the values inherent to the IB continuum of international education: these are
values that should infuse all elements of the three programmes and, therefore, the culture and ethos of all IB World Schools.
IB programmes promote the education of the whole person, emphasizing intellectual, personal, emotional and social growth
through all domains of knowledge.
SMART AND SKILLED
„  Imagine the most knowledgably and skilled person in the world?
„  They may be a business leader, a national leader, or anyone with decision
making power to change someone’s life or impact our environment.
„  PYP focuses equally on knowledge, skills, understanding and attitudes.
„  Attitudes prepare the students to use those to make informed choices.
ATTITUDES
„  Appreciation
„  Empathy
„  Commitment
„  Enthusiasm
„  Confidence
„  Independence
„  Cooperation
„  Integrity
„  Creativity
„  Respect
„  Curiosity
„  Tolerance
BEFORE AND NOW
ELABORATION GAME
„  As a group, observe and describe several different sections of an artwork.
1. One person identifies a specific section of the artwork and describes what he or she sees.
Another person elaborates on the first person’s observations by adding more detail about
the section. A third person elaborates further by adding yet more detail, and a fourth person
adds yet more.
„  Observers: Only describe what you see. Hold off giving your ideas about the art until the
last step of the routine.
2. After four people have described a section in detail, someone else identifies a new section
of the artwork and the process starts over: Four more people take turns making increasingly
detailed observations. Then the process starts over again, and so on, until everyone in the
group has had a turn or all sections of the artwork have been de-scribed.
3. After the artwork has been fully described, as a group, discuss some of your ideas about it.
For example, what do you think is going on? (and what did you observe that makes you say
that?)
„  Helpful definitions:
Observe: Describe how something appears.
Elaborate: Expand on something in detail.
Interpret: Explain what something means.
ACTION
„  Action is the ultimate goal. We want our students to be able to use
their knowledge, skills, understanding, and good character to take action
that will improve the life of others and make the world we live in a
better place.
„  Caine’s Arcade
choose
http://cainesarcade.com
reflect
act
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U
STUDENT-LED CONFERENCES
IB Learner Pr
ofile
The aim of all
IB programm
es is to develo
internationally
p
minded peop
le who,
recognizing th
eir common hu
manity and
shared guardi
anship of the
planet, help to
create a bette
r and more pe
aceful world.
IB learners st
rive to be:
Vision
As an Intern
ational Bacc
alaureate
Primary Year
s Programm
e World
School, we w
ill provide an
engaging
and open-m
inded learni
ng
community
where all m
embers
collaborate
respectfully
to challenge
and motivat
e one anothe
r within a
safe and nurt
uring enviro
nment.
„  Involving students in their own learning
Inquirers
Knowledgea
ble
Thinkers
„  Gators Give Back:
Rockville
Holiday Drive “Take part,
Com
municators
Principled
give from the heart.”
Open-minde
d
Caring
Risk-takers
„  MCPS Afternoons
Balanced
Re
flective
„  Monday, November
12
For more detai
led informatio
n and explana
of each attrib
tion
ute of the Lear
ner Profile, vis
PYP page of
it the
the College Ga
rdens website
visit: http://www
or
.ibo.org/progr
ammes/profile
/
„  Tuesday, November 13
Mission
College Gard
ens
ry
Elementa
We develop
and support
a successful
and inclusiv
e environmen
t where all
students activ
ely participat
e in and
assume owne
rship of thei
r
le
arning.
As a unified
staff and com
munity, we
create a rigor
ous instructio
nal
program, whi
ch promotes
gl
obally
minded, crea
tive, confiden
t,
an
d
reflective lif
elong learne
rs.
College Gard
ens Elementa
ry
School
An Internation
al Baccalaur
eate
Primary Years
Programme Wo
rld School
1700 Yale Plac
e ✧ Rockvil
le, Maryland
phone: 301.2
20850
79.8470 ✧ fax
: 301.279.8473
www.montgom
eryschoolsm
d.org/school
s/
collegegarden
ses
School
STUDENT-LE
D
CONFERENCE
S
Parents, teac
hers, and stud
ents
partnering to
strengthen st
ud
ent
ownership of
their own lear
ning to
develop the Le
arner Profile
THANK YOU!