RECOMMENDED FOR:
PYP educators, coordinators, librarians/media specialists
and specialist teachers, who wish to learn more about
designing and teaching for conceptual understanding in a
transdisciplinary and inquiry-based learning environment.
How might we intentionally design and teach for conceptual
understanding within a transdisciplinary and inquiry-based
context? Developing conceptual understanding enables learners
to access many kinds of knowledge and develop understanding
from multiple sources and diverse perspectives. In this workshop,
participants will explore how:
• Conceptual understanding is central to the aims of an IB
education.
• Conceptual understanding is developed through the
pedagogical approaches to teaching to support
transdisciplinary learning within, across and beyond subjects.
• The programme of inquiry and the PYP collaborative planning
process frame opportunities that enable designing
and teaching for conceptual understanding that connects
meaningfully to the learner and the learning community.
• Concepts play a critical role in organizing, designing and
planning curriculum and learning.
• Together, this creates opportunities for learners to make
connections, transfer and apply skills, knowledge, and
understandings to new and different contexts in creative,
generative, agentic and dynamic ways.
This workshop provides tools and strategies that enhance
conceptual understanding leading to depth and rigour in thinking
within, between and across subjects both inside and outside the
programme of inquiry