The document summarizes the history and goals of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme (PYP). It describes the three components of the PYP curriculum - the written, taught, and assessed curriculum. The written curriculum focuses on six transdisciplinary themes of global significance. The taught curriculum involves in-depth inquiries into these themes. Assessment enhances learning and reflection. The PYP aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring students through its learner profile and focus on international-mindedness.

1. “International-Mindedness”
What does that phrase make you think of?
(images, synonyms, associations, etc)
What does it mean to be “internationally-minded”?
Use the scrap paper at your table to jot down/
sketch out some of your thoughts about the
questions above.

2. Please write your name and draw
something you enjoy doing.
Kassandra

3. 1968 - The Diploma Program
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program is a
challenging two-year curriculum, primarily aimed at students aged
16 to 19. It leads to a qualification that is widely recognized by the
world’s leading universities.

4. 1994 - The Middle Years Program
(students aged 11-16)
This period, encompassing early puberty and mid-adolescence, is a particularly critical
phase of personal and intellectual development and requires a program that helps
students participate actively and responsibly in a changing and increasingly interrelated
world. Learning how to learn and how to evaluate information critically is as important
as learning facts.

5. 1997 - The Primary Years Program
(students aged 3-12)
The IB Primary Years Program focuses on the development of the whole
child as an inquirer, both in the classroom and in the world outside. It is a
framework guided by six transdisciplinary themes of global significance,
explored using knowledge and skills derived from six subjects areas, as well
as transdisciplinary skills, with a powerful emphasis on inquiry- based
learning.

6. Education for
a better
world: the IB
Primary
Years
Program

7. Mission
The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring,
knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better
and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and
respect.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and
international organizations to develop challenging programmes of
international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become
active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that
other people, with their differences, can also be right.

10. Primary Years Programme
How does the PYP define curriculum?
 Written curriculum
 Taught curriculum
 Assessed curriculum
This is a model whereby
all three components
inform each other.

11. Primary Years Programme
The Written curriculum
The most significant and distinctive feature of the IB Primary Years Programme is the
six transdisciplinary themes.
These themes are about issues that have meaning for, and are important to, all of us.
The programme offers a balance between learning about or through the subject areas,
and learning beyond them. The six themes of global significance create a
transdisciplinary framework that allows students to "step up" beyond the confines of
learning within subject areas.
• Who we are
• Where we are in place and time
• How we express ourselves
• How the world works
• How we organize ourselves
• Sharing the planet

12. Primary Years Programme
The Taught curriculum
The six transdisciplinary themes help teachers to develop a programme of
inquiries–in-depth investigations into important ideas, identified by the teachers, and
requiring a high level of involvement on the part of the students. These inquiries are
substantial, in-depth and usually last for several weeks.
The Assessed curriculum
Assessment is an important part of each unit of inquiry
as it both enhances learning and provides opportunities
for students to reflect on what they know, understand
and can do. The teacher's feedback to the students
provides the guidance, the tools and the incentive for
them to become more competent, more skillful and
better at understanding how to learn.

13. The Learner Profile
R
R
R
Knowledgeable
Risk-takers
Thinkers Inquirers
Principled
Reflective Communicators
Caring
Balanced
Open-minded

18. How to
support your
child
Ask questions
Do not do the work for them, they will learn by doing
Ask them what the instructions mean
Give feedback, help them to assess themselves
Support them in taking responsibility
Follow up on teacher suggestions

19. AISD Milestones
2008 - Began implementing
2010 - Authorization
2013 - Evaluation