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What to Look for in a PYP Classroom
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Physical Enviornment Student Learning
Students are:
• Inquirers whose natural curiosity has been nurtured, and are empowered to feel responsible, show initiative, and take action.
• Involved in meaningful and engrossing activities appropriate to their knowledge and experience, and their language skills.
• Involved in planning and accessing their own learning.
• Classroom space is inviting and stimulating.
• Displays of students’ work demonstrate achievement, and ongoing learning and inquiry.
• Use of room enables students to switch flexibility between spaces appropriate to different activities.
• Resources (books, math manipulatives, computers) are
easily accessible to,
and respected by students.
Montgomery County Public Schools, 850 Hungerford Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850 Teacher Strategies The teacher:
• Facilitates open-ended inquiry and real life investigations encouraging student initiative in choice of resources and appropriate means of expression.
• Uses a range and appropriate balance of teaching and grouping strategies, switching flexibility between individual, group, and
whole class work. • Demonstrates high expectations of students.
• Facilitates a balanced emphasis between the pursuit of understanding, and the acquisition of knowledge and essential
skills.
• Uses a range of assessment and self-assessment strategies with
students.
Use of Programme of Inquiry
• The teacher and students are clear about the central idea and questions driving inquiry of the relevant Planner.
• Ongoing student questions are valued and explored.
Multi-Cultural International Enviornment • The classroom environment openly celebrates the diversity of its students.
• The teacher and students show respect, tolerance, and are empathetic towards others of different gender, nationality, or levels of academic or language development, etc.
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