PYP as a holistic, transdisciplinary and coherent learning experience.

Local and global context: Learning in local and global contexts supports student understanding of human commonalities

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Classroom strategies: Use inquiry as a pedagogical approach that encourages students to be responsible for and actively involved in their own learning.

Classroom strategies: use visual resources to represent future job's skills, the IB profile use vs automation, and universities skills requirements.

Classroom Strategies: Autonomous learning strategies, because self-management and self-responsibility, are both important categories to stay connected with the global community and to be a meaningful member of this.

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Classroom strategies: Communication, perspective-taking, commonalities, specialism, subject.

Transdisciplinatity and conceptual learning: Transdisciplinary learning design deepens students' understanding of complex ideas.

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Classroom strategies: In the transdisciplinary approach the disciplines will fuse into the problem transcending their boundaries and getting an unexpected solution. The transdisciplinary learning steps include . support, connect, enrich.

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Classroom strategies: Use integrate related concepts, exploring key concepts inn greater details, adding depth to the programme and selecting related concepts based on the school context.

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Classroom strategies: identify the connection between subjects standards based on ATL thinking skills, beyond the subjects boundaries.

Action inquiry and collaboration: collaborative relationships support well-being.

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Classroom strategies: (a) in math, integrating the units of inquiry around challenges. (b) creating a cross curriculum based on students’ motivations and integrate the subjects and the learning profile as a part of the students’ curriculum to be taught and developed in the school. (c) integrating the concept of the learning, based on projects, where the curriculum would be orientated by projects, challenges, solutions, ideas, etc

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Classroom strategies: (a) create a questions chart, (b) listen students motivations, (c) analyze the assessments approach and (d) let students close the learning time.

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Classrooms strategies: Using IB planners based on templates, and experience showed in this course.

Steering the way: Diverse ways of knowing, doing and thinking are supported by well-designed learning environments.

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Classroom strategies: (a) learning spaces where the children may interact with ease, (b) learning environment that offers favorable situations for purposeful play, (c) chances to provoke and stimulate independence and responsibility, (d) spaces to provide for agentic learning. As an example: graffiti walls, manipulative library, project development spaces, individual agency spaces, big class technology discussions and real connections.