Students

The students role and responsibilities:

• understand the purpose and requirements of the exhibition from the outset of the process

• participate in selecting a real-life issue or opportunity for the exhibition

• develop their inquiry by collaborating on the lines of inquiry and student questions with teachers

• determine key and relate concepts for exploration

• demonstrate an understanding of concepts through questions in the inquiry process

• explore knowledge and conceptual understandings that are significant, relevant, challenging and engaging

• demonstrate the attributes of the learner profile through their learning

• engage in action: the exhibition could begin with action, or emerge throughout

• use and demonstrate the approaches to learning skills

• select and use a variety of strategies and resources to develop their inquiries, including first-hand experiences, interviews, surveys, field visits, artifacts, science investigations, working models

• engage in a collaborative, student-led, in-depth inquiry facilitated by teachers and mentors

• co-construct success criteria and reflection opportunities that include self-assessment of their learning and an evaluation of the exhibition process

• be academically honest

• celebrate their learning by sharing the exhibition with the learning community

Source: International Baccaulaureate Organization (2018). PYP: From Principles into Practice: The learner.