Key Concepts, Bonding as a Team & Mentors
Knowing Ourselves and Our Team
1. Meet Your Team Members.
Get to know your team members. Who are they? Why are they in this group? What are their strenghts and weaknesses? How can you help them with be possitive memebers of the team?
Success Criteria
1a. Essential Agreements.
Armed with the above knowledge, you and your team need to come up with 'Essential Agreements' that your team will adhere to. Each team member should record these agreements creatively in your process journals.
1. Meet Your Team Members.
Get to know your team members. Who are they? Why are they in this group? What are their strenghts and weaknesses? How can you help them with be possitive memebers of the team?
Success Criteria
- I introduced myself and know the names of everyone in my group
- I explained why I am interested in our particular issue
- I have reflected on both my strengths and challenges of working in a team
- I have written a reflection about team dynamics in my process journal
1a. Essential Agreements.
Armed with the above knowledge, you and your team need to come up with 'Essential Agreements' that your team will adhere to. Each team member should record these agreements creatively in your process journals.
2. Distribute Team Roles
What role will you play in your team? Which role best suites each member?
(Time manager, Team coordinator, Team Scribe - are there other roles?)
3. Homework for your Team
Explore the Exhibition website. Check the 'For Students' tab.
4. You will refine your equation
(e.g. Passion + Issue = Action; Make sure you know how each of these elements link and drive your research questions)
5. Determine which PYP transdisciplinary theme your issue best fits
6. Generate questions for you issue
Using the key concept questions to think of ways to explore your issue:
FORM: What is it like?
FUNCTION: How does it work?
CHANGE: How is it changing or how has it changed?
CONNECTION: How is it connected to other things?
RESPONSIBILITY: What is our responsibility?
PERSPECTIVE: What are the points of view?
CAUSATION: Why is it the way it is?
REFLECTION: How do we know?
(One way is to simply put your issue in place of 'it')
FORM: What is poverty in northern Vietnam like?
FUNCTION: How does poverty in northern Vietnam work?
CHANGE: How is poverty in northern Vietnamchanging or how has it changed?
CONNECTION: How is poverty in northern Vietnam connected to other things?
RESPONSIBILITY: What is our responsibility to ease poverty in northern Vietnam?
PERSPECTIVE: What are the points of view about poverty in northern Vietnam?
CAUSATION: Why is poverty in northern Vietnam the way it is?
REFLECTION: How do we know there is poverty in northern Vietnam?
What role will you play in your team? Which role best suites each member?
(Time manager, Team coordinator, Team Scribe - are there other roles?)
3. Homework for your Team
Explore the Exhibition website. Check the 'For Students' tab.
4. You will refine your equation
(e.g. Passion + Issue = Action; Make sure you know how each of these elements link and drive your research questions)
5. Determine which PYP transdisciplinary theme your issue best fits
6. Generate questions for you issue
Using the key concept questions to think of ways to explore your issue:
FORM: What is it like?
FUNCTION: How does it work?
CHANGE: How is it changing or how has it changed?
CONNECTION: How is it connected to other things?
RESPONSIBILITY: What is our responsibility?
PERSPECTIVE: What are the points of view?
CAUSATION: Why is it the way it is?
REFLECTION: How do we know?
(One way is to simply put your issue in place of 'it')
FORM: What is poverty in northern Vietnam like?
FUNCTION: How does poverty in northern Vietnam work?
CHANGE: How is poverty in northern Vietnamchanging or how has it changed?
CONNECTION: How is poverty in northern Vietnam connected to other things?
RESPONSIBILITY: What is our responsibility to ease poverty in northern Vietnam?
PERSPECTIVE: What are the points of view about poverty in northern Vietnam?
CAUSATION: Why is poverty in northern Vietnam the way it is?
REFLECTION: How do we know there is poverty in northern Vietnam?
Mentor Meeting
Once you know who your mentor is, make contact to organize a regular weekly appointment.
Once you know who your mentor is, make contact to organize a regular weekly appointment.
Process Journal Responses
Each week you will complete a pie chart reflection about how you felt your team worked together. You need to justify your segment allocations.
As well as the pie chart, you will complete a personal response in your process journal that tracks your thinking, your organisational skills and progress. (Read the success criteria carefully to ensure you are including all that is required)
Success Criteria
Each week you will complete a pie chart reflection about how you felt your team worked together. You need to justify your segment allocations.
As well as the pie chart, you will complete a personal response in your process journal that tracks your thinking, your organisational skills and progress. (Read the success criteria carefully to ensure you are including all that is required)
Success Criteria
- I have included at least one of the ATLs (approaches to learning) in my response
- I have included at least one Learner Profile attribute in my response
- I have included at least one of the PYP Attitudes in my response
- My response is interesting to read. The reader feels a sense of empathy: he/she knows how I feel and can understand and relate to how I am feeling. My response shows that I have really considered my strengths and areas for improvement as a learner