Year-to-Date: 700.7; May 2023: 51.6; Last Week: 45.7
In the featured image, there is a student preparing a whiteboard to take notes during a plenary discussion. (I know! I should have scolded them. But, not really …) After reflecting, I wondered about what feeling I had and I immediately thought of resourcefulness. It’s neither a quality that IB teachers implicitly or explicitly teach nor a learning expectation in international schools. However, it’s a quality that many organizations look for in candidates: how to seek solutions to problems creatively. The student in the photo prepared the board in that matter independently. In other words, teachers provided reminders about responsibility and they went about their work.
In the G5 learning space, there are plenty of print resources. One example is a wall of resources with student-generated posters of properties of a quadrilateral and real-world problems with answers for perimeter, area, and volume of quadrilaterals. Teachers encouraged students to use them during this week’s assessment. Another example is the mini-posters with helpful transitions to use whilst speaking and/or writing. Teachers refer students to them all the time. A third example is the wonder wall with a provocative question to personalize an inquiry related to food. These questions guide everyone on a more focused inquiry.
Additionally, there are also plenty of interactive resources, such as the students working together to seek a solution to an everyday problem in the learning space. A perfect example of an interactive resource is when G5 visited G6 for the PYP Exhibition. In other words, people can interact with others in the hopes that everyone learns from everyone else. (Please consult with your child(ren) about which exhibits they visited.) There was constant interaction between and amongst G5 and G6 students celebrating the capstone of a primary education at ABIS. The photograph below perfectly illustrates how students might serve as interactive resources for other students.
In this particular group, students researched and presented their learning around healthy food choices. As this topic relates to G5’s current unit of inquiry, G5 teachers are arranging a day and time for the G6 students to give a more personalized presentation. It promises to be an exciting action that G6 students take as part of the inquiry process. Please scroll down for some more photographs when that event. As always, thank you for the continuing partnership between home and school.
