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Making the PYP happen What is curriculum In developing an international curriculum for younger learners, the PYP defines curriculum as broad and inclusive. The PYP takes the position that the school’s curriculum includes all those student activities, academic and non-academic, for which the school takes responsibility, since they all have an impact on student learning. Furthermore, given the PYP’s commitment to continuous school improvement, it is obvious that the development of the written curriculum, the expression of ideas on paper, is necessary; but, equally obviously, this alone is not sufficient. The interpretation of these ideas into daily practice, by teachers working in classrooms around the world, matters. The PYP has, therefore, given equal emphasis to methodology, to the taught curriculum, to suggestions for examining and improving our practice and to the provision of inservice support. The third element in the PYP’s definition of curriculum—assessing the actual learning which takes place for each student—is often the most frequently neglected. The development of a range of meaningful assessment strategies, the focus on the learned curriculum, brings balance to our work and reminds us of its purpose. The PYP’s definition of curriculum, then, emerges as comprising three interrelated components. In keeping with the PYP’s commitment to inquiry, these three components are expressed in the form of the following three open-ended questions, each of which compels us to think deeply about our own practice with regard to student learning: What do we want to learn The written curriculum the identification of student learning within a curriculum framework How best will we learn The taught curriculum the theory and application of good classroom practice How will we know what we have learned The learned curriculum the theory and application of effective assessment The PYP chooses to use the pronoun “we” in each question, rather than referring directly to the students, for reasons which reflect the PYP’s beliefs. While recognizing that the school’s primary responsibility is obviously for student learning, the PYP wishes to make clear its position that: ! given that, in a school which is a community of learners, everyone is a learner, we as teachers must continue to learn, both about the content with which we are engaged and about our own practice ! presenting the questions in this form prompts us to present them in a similar way to students, therefore directly engaging them in their own learning. © IBO 2000 9
Making the PYP happen In PYP documents the three questions are presented as a cycle: What do we want to learn How will we know what we have learned Learners Constructing Meaning How best will we learn Figure 3 Learners constructing meaning: the PYP definition of curriculum The words at the centre of this diagram convey the belief that students construct their own meaning. The PYP is convinced by many of the principles of the constructivist approach to explaining learning. Put very simply, the PYP believes that students bring to the learning situation their own prior knowledge and engage with the curriculum through the activities designed by the teacher. In the context of this total learning environment, the students make sense of their experiences or construct meaning. Our responsibility is to identify the students’ prior knowledge, provide appropriate experiences, assess their new learning and begin the cycle anew. 10 © IBO 2000
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