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3 Powerful Ways to Teach the UN Sustainable Development Goals in the IB PYP
If you're struggling to bring the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) authentically into your IB PYP classroom, know that you’re not alone. Many teachers wonder how to make these 17 global goals relevant and age-appropriate for younger learners.
In this post, my guest blogger is Amber Reynolds from @scribble_satisfaction_ is an experienced IB PYP teacher, currently working in Albania. She creatively walks us through how to unpack what the Sustainable Development Goals are, how they connect naturally to the IB Primary Years Programme and shares three practical, classroom-ready strategies for bringing them to life through inquiry and authentic action. By the end, you’ll see that teaching the SDGs isn’t “extra” work but rather it’s a meaningful, integrated part of developing international-minded, caring global citizens.
Why It’s Important to Teach the SDGs from a Young Age
PYP Concepts: Connection, Responsibility
ATL Skills: Social, Thinking, and Self-Management Skills...
Tips for Sharing the IB PYP with Parents
Engaging the families of our IB PYP students and getting them on board is so important for all involved and not least for bringing that cohension to our learning community. Often times, it is the parents in our learning community who are the last to understand what exactly it is that we do. I receive many questions and requests from teachers, coordinators and school leaders who are presented with this job of bringing the PYP to the parents. Do any of the questions below sound familiar?
So, what exactly is the PYP?
How is my child actually learning?
What do you mean that you're a FACILITATOR?
I'm a little concerned about this student-led inquiry thing?
Well, here's my advice for you if you've been given the soapbox to step upon and deliver the message of why we encourage inquiry based learning, support student agency and proudly fly the flag of being a PYP school. These tips are designed with ideas to pick and choose. Obviously, what you do depends on time, space and your sc...
How IB PYP Approaches to Learning Skills Inspire Taking Action
 The IB PYP Approaches to Learning Skills are naturally used across the disciplines and one of the keys to our transdisciplinary approach. (thus they used to be called the Transdisciplinary Skills) As co-planners of the inquiry, we want to be intentional when identifying our focus skills that will align best with the primary purpose of our unit of inquiry. (organisation, expression, investigation etc.) You want to ensure that you plan your learning experiences to give the children a targeted experience with your focus skills. The sub-skills within the IB PYP Approaches to Learning Skills are in themselves actions. We, as facilitators, provide opportunity for naturally inspiring action that can fall within all categories of our IB PYP action.
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Participation
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Social Justice
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Advocacy
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Social Entrepreneurship
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Lifestyle Choices
