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Planning the IB PYP Unit ……with the Kids!
It never fails to amaze me, when given the opportunity to take the lead, how much our students rise to the challenge. With the enhancements to the IB PYP having recently been unveiled, I felt that this would be a great time to address co-planning the unit…..with your students as your co-planners!
Encouraging greater student agency in your classroom is more than simply listening to the student voice. In my previous post about implementing student agency, I mentioned the difference between passive learning and active learning. Allowing the children to actively contribute to the planning of their own learning, absolutely promotes meaningful student involvement.
The unit of inquiry has been planned in a variety of ways over the years:
- teachers develop a skeleton plan and complete it as they are informed by the childrens’ inquiries and progressing knowledge.
- teachers may collaboratively develop the unit with their team, before...
