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.