Resources

**Documents **
[|Making_the_pyp_happen.pdf] [|MYP.pdf] [|Continuumppt22.12.08Eng.ppt]

[|ACTION KIT FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERS] (This is an IB document on the benefits of the continuum)

[|**IBO Learner Profile Video**]

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I also found this article written by the PYP and MYP coordinators in the International School in Tanganika...

Written by Melodee Peters, Middle Years Co-ordinator and Kristeen Chachage, PYP Co-ordinator, September 2005 As a grade 6 parent whose child has moved up from the Elementary School, you’re probably asking yourself:
 * **THE TRANSITION FROM PYP TO MYP**

The answer starts simply with the philosophy that all the IBO programmes share. This philosophy is cemented in the PYP Learner Profile and the 3 Fundamental Principles of the MYP: 1) Holistic Education, 2) Intercultural Awareness and 3) Communication. These principles are also developed in students through the Programme of Inquiry in the PYP, and furthered through the 5 MYP Areas of Interaction which act as foci for students’ learning in subject areas. Furthermore, the student is always central to both programmes.
 * “How has the PYP prepared my child for the MYP?” **

Through the inquiry-based learning and reflection encouraged in all subjects in the PYP, students are prepared for Approaches to Learning, which allow students to determine their individual learning styles and how to use their learning styles to become more aware of how they learn best by transferring their skills across the curriculum. Two organizing themes of the PYP, “Who are we?” and “How do we express ourselves?” prepare students for MYP’s Health and Social Education perspective. Students’ physiological and socio-emotional development is explored through this Area of Interaction and helps students understand their place in the world and hopes to help them form a positive self- esteem, especially through subject areas such as Life Skills and Physical Education. “How the world works” is another PYP organizing theme which extends naturally into the MYP.

Through Homo Faber, students explore that part of human nature that urges us to create, design, invent, and discover in order to improve quality of life. PYP students’ inquiries into how we share the planet and how we organize ourselves grow into 2 themes in the MYP: Community and Service, and the Environment. Through their studies in the MYP and their exploration of how they are becoming, students should gradually gain an understanding of their responsibility to the space they inhabit and the peoples and creatures with whom they share that space.

Both programmes provide a culminating experience for the students. The culmination of the PYP experience is the Grade 5 Exhibition. For the Exhibition, students work collaboratively to investigate in depth an issue of their choice under the theme of “sharing the planet”. They apply the concepts as well as the skills, knowledge and attitudes they have developed throughout the Primary Years Programme and present their learning to the community through an interactive exhibition. By the time students start year 5 (grade 10) of the MYP, they are manifesting themselves as independent learners who use their knowledge base to continue learning for life. Therefore, in grade 10 students are expected to take on a personal project that is the culmination of their learning through the MYP Areas of Interaction. Through this project, students can reflect on their learning and how they have developed as thinkers in order to understand the world around them and their place in that world.

Essentially, through the PYP, students are developing the academic, thinking and social skills which are needed for understanding the specific content of subject areas and then broadening that understanding by means of applying and analysing their learning independently through an Area of Interaction lens when they move into the MYP.