Taking stock
I began this course with a variety of questions, all of which I am now able to answer to some degree. What conception(s) of curriculum does the International Baccalaureate follow…
Category: Integrated Planning, Instruction and Assessment
Reflecting on my Professional Communities
I have to confess that I am more of a silent stalker in the professional communities I follow than I am an active voice, and this is often the way…
What is agency?
The most recent communication from the IBPYP outlining some of the changes we can anticipate from the launch of the enhanced PYP later next year both highlighted some anticipated changes…
Conceptions of curriculum in our programmes of inquiry
The last few months I have been learning about different conceptions of curriculum. Our conception of curriculum Expresses a viewpoint about curriculum’s development and design; the role of the learner,…
Identifying a professional community
Deciding which professional communities to participate in was relatively straight-forward. I am already a member of a couple PYP Facebook groups: PYP Workshop Leaders and PYP Coordinators. The PYP workshop…
Planning, instruction and assessment
Here is the updated visual product Nicole and I created: What kind of teacher are you? (updated) A few weeks ago I posed the following question: Will understanding the conception of…
Visually representing curriculum connections
So this week we had to explore the connections between our philosophical foundations of education, curriculum conceptions and curricular design. Here is how we saw it: http://prezi.com/zxe0fb78blfp/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy The work of…
Reflecting on Conceptions of Curriculum
I am fascinated by curriculum and the perspectives it offers about different societies and insight into their beliefs about what children should learn and how. Before I began my readings,…
