collaboration for an exhibition

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Looking for classrooms to collaborate with for PYP Exhibition

Hello At Beijing (BISS) International School this year our Grade 5 students are basing their exhibition around Inventions and Inventors. We are looking for other PYP classrooms to collaborate with and create a learning community with common outcomes, maybe even a joint exhibition objective. If you are interested in exploring this idea, please email me at school jlindsay@biss.com.cn I look forward to hearing from you. Julie Lindsay E-Learning Coordinator Beijing (BISS) International School China Continue

Added by Julie Lindsay on November 1, 2009 at 10:12pm — No Comments

Mentors

Our school is looking for ways to work with mentors, they can be parents or teachers. We are hoping to see some guidelines to help them keep it student driven. Continue

Added by Melissa Cooper on October 11, 2009 at 11:44am — 1 Comment

Essay Topic Selection Tips That Will Kick-start Your Essay Writing

Many students get stuck on the very first step of essay writing that is “topic selection”. Here I m going to reveal the strategies which will provide immense essay writing help by making your topic selection real easy and fast. Define the Purpose of Essay The first step towards topic selection is to define the purpose of the essay that must be written. Your purpose can be: ? To persuade people… Continue

Added by Maria Pittman on September 2, 2009 at 12:54pm — 1 Comment

How To Kill an Exhibition

Friday morning I read Ben Grey's post Technology Guidelines. He shared with us his colleague's thoughts about publishing student work.

The statement was made that all of the data being produced by teachers and students should be housed within a district.
A teacher should never allow a student’s work to be posted if it isn’t entirely free of grammatical or spelling errors.

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Added by Tod Baker on April 12, 2009 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

Our Exhibition - Thought Ignites Action

We have just started this year's Exhibition in our school, The International School of Azerbaijan. It's called Thought Ignites Action. We linked it to the previous unit, called Children in Search of a Lifestyle. That means we've just finished researching children in need around the world and are now following it up with the Exhibition unit on action that responds to the research that the students have done. I don't know if anyone else has done this before but we've planned it well. We're using… Continue

Added by Leigh Newton on April 4, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Rubric

I have found our rubric and will email it out the members of the group so far. Continue

Added by Aaron Thompson on January 13, 2009 at 2:42pm — 8 Comments

Intro to Our Exhibition

Time to Make a Difference from Tod Baker on Vimeo. We projected this video on a larger screen and showed it to visitors before they walked through our Exhibition. I describe the video making process on todbaker.com. Link Continue

Added by Tod Baker on May 24, 2008 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

Need reusable bags?

Need reusable bags? from Tod Baker on Vimeo. In their first video about living green in Tianjin, the Global Citizen Videos guys (my students) show us the negative impacts of plastic bags on our natural environment and where we can b… Continue

Added by Tod Baker on May 3, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Collaborative Technologies Support Exhibition

Collaborative technologies can help develop, support, and encourage the kind of learning we are looking for during the PYP Exhibition. The list below discusses the collaborative technologies we use at IST and how they might improve teaching and learning. NING We have two Ning networks to support our teaching and learning. The first one, http://istgrade5.ning.com/ (password protected) works as a our class space for all things related to teaching and lear… Continue

Added by Tod Baker on March 15, 2008 at 7:00am — No Comments

Alan's Notes

BCIS

April - 16

Year 1: Exhibition experience… with through guidelines, to establish exhibition culture

Year 2: Exhibition: Some staff members had attended Exhibition workshop

Mapping and linking all units of inquiry to lead up to exhibition skills and concepts

Semi regular basis (once a week) meeting as grade level

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Added by Tod Baker on November 28, 2007 at 3:20pm — No Comments

Job-alike Notes

9:30am - 12:30pm

Schools
BCIS (host)
WAB
BISS
IST (arrived 11am)

Kay describes IST. 3rd year, each year completely diff. High turnover of students (little pyp exp) Central idea developed by students Inquiry points developed by students In groups, students go through inquiry points

How do other schools address issue of students who show up with no pyp experience? Newbies took a modified approach with same goal.… Continue

Added by Tod Baker on November 27, 2007 at 12:19pm — No Comments

Job-alike Agenda

The job-alike session for BCIS, WAB, and IST takes place tomorrow. Here's the agenda.

* Structure of grade level POI – so looking at individual units, making connections to each other and the build up/relationships to Exhibition

* Planning of Exhibition
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Added by Tod Baker on November 26, 2007 at 6:05pm — No Comments