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Making PYP Happen Online Workshop - May-June 2019

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Module 1 The role of language to promote and provoke international-mindedness and transdisciplinary learning". Connect - How are the ideas and information presented CONNECTED to what you already knew? Actively promoting the maintenance and development of home languages helps to build a positive culture of language learning. In our classroom, we invite parents to join us in celebrating their children's learning and we encourage children to share this learning in their home language. This creates an opportunity for students to make connections between languages. Actively promoting the maintenance and development of home language also promotes a positive culture of language learning. Children are welcome to read books in our class that are written in their home language and share them with their peers. Extend - What new ideas did you get that EXTENDED or pushed your thinking in new directions? Multiliteracies involve students in different ways of accessing an...
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Sharlene's Journal - Improving My Practice Through Critical Reflection & Relevant Research

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Mind Lab - Week 25: My Practice Within the Community A  Community of Practice Definition: Wenger (2000)  defines communities of practice (CoP) as a way for people to engage in collective learning in an area of concern or passion. Through regular interaction, the group learns how to improve their performance.  Knox (2009) describes the purpose of a CoP is to create, expand and exchange knowledge and to develop individual capabilities.  A community of practice is defined by three distinct elements: joint enterprise, mutual engagement and shared repertoire (Wenger, 2000). Joint enterprise: is a shared domain which is the “collectively developed understanding of what the community is about”. Mutual engagement: within the community, the members engage through interactions, building mutual trust in the relationships. Shared repertoire: is “the communal resources” that the community of practice produce (Wenger, 2000, p.229). My Communities of Practice...
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