The following is a post my previous PYP Co-ordinator posted after watching a movie I passed on to him. Felt good to spur on action....even if it wasn't in my own school.
Chris wrote on the PYP Threads ning:
I don't know about you, but at our school we spend a lot of time planning, sequencing and designing activities to encourage kids to collaborate, make group decisions take risks and so forth. It is a lot of work I can tell you. The IB Learner Profile, PYP Attitudes and the skills of inquiry are increasingly taking up more and more meeting times. "Quite right too!" we say to ourselves - these elements are exceeding important! (I'm not denying the latter).
But are we focusing too much of our attention on the 'classroom' to promote these attributes when we should be taking a step back and looking more to nature and to the playground for our answers?
I urge you to take a reflective look at this video. Yes it is nostalgic, yes it is advocating play and yes we have probably heard this all before. But this time, look at the video through the lens of achieving the transdisciplinary skills, attitudes and learner profile. The UK school featured towards the end, has probably never heard of the IB, the PYP or The Learner Profile. But listen to the words they use when describing the benefits of play! This really got me thinking. Thank you Amber Jean Taylor (an ex colleague now in Moscow) for sending me this it spurred some though and has our staff debating.
Lost Adventures of Childhood
http://vimeo.com/36303926
I wish our staff would do the same.
There were replies to his post with some great videos:
http://pypthreads.ning.com/forum/topics/transdisciplinary-skills-teachers-what-are-we-playing-at?commentId=2012483%3AComment%3A47228&xg_source=msg_com_forum
Chris has also sent me a video with more of the same idea:
http://www.youtube.com/user/SchoolGroundsUK/featured
Chris wrote on the PYP Threads ning:
I don't know about you, but at our school we spend a lot of time planning, sequencing and designing activities to encourage kids to collaborate, make group decisions take risks and so forth. It is a lot of work I can tell you. The IB Learner Profile, PYP Attitudes and the skills of inquiry are increasingly taking up more and more meeting times. "Quite right too!" we say to ourselves - these elements are exceeding important! (I'm not denying the latter).
But are we focusing too much of our attention on the 'classroom' to promote these attributes when we should be taking a step back and looking more to nature and to the playground for our answers?
I urge you to take a reflective look at this video. Yes it is nostalgic, yes it is advocating play and yes we have probably heard this all before. But this time, look at the video through the lens of achieving the transdisciplinary skills, attitudes and learner profile. The UK school featured towards the end, has probably never heard of the IB, the PYP or The Learner Profile. But listen to the words they use when describing the benefits of play! This really got me thinking. Thank you Amber Jean Taylor (an ex colleague now in Moscow) for sending me this it spurred some though and has our staff debating.
Lost Adventures of Childhood
http://vimeo.com/36303926
I wish our staff would do the same.
There were replies to his post with some great videos:
http://pypthreads.ning.com/forum/topics/transdisciplinary-skills-teachers-what-are-we-playing-at?commentId=2012483%3AComment%3A47228&xg_source=msg_com_forum
Chris has also sent me a video with more of the same idea:
http://www.youtube.com/user/SchoolGroundsUK/featured
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