Embedded Files
Coherent Curriculum (0401)
Standard: Learning in IB World Schools is based on coherent curriculum.
Artifacts:
Patterson International's Programme of Inquiry - As the pandemic hit, we were just starting our work on revising our entire POI. We received all new standards for Jeffco, plus we had the change to our new IB planners. Our revisions to all planners and POI will not be finalized until the 2022-2023 school year.
Our IB Programme Development Plan for 2021-2022 is around IB collaboration.
Late Start for IB Collaboration Information
School Communication to Community:
Patterson IB Report Cards
Access to Patterson IB Website
Weekly Principal Announcements through Video
Back to School Night Information
Night of Reflection - IB Student Led Conferences and IB Portfolios Shared
Kindergarten - Communication to parents about their unit of inquiry and having students take action at home.
Students as Lifelong Learners (0402)
Standard: Learning in IB schools aims to develop students ready for further education and life beyond the classroom.
student action2.pdfFirst graders taking action with their
Sharing the Planet - Needs Unit.
Student Action.pdf
1st grade - Sharing the Planet - Needs Unit - Citation work from resource used.
3rd Grade getting ready to research the life cycle of an animal. The teacher posed this question to allow voice and choice for the students.
4th Grade - Inquiry Project
Students had to choose a source of energy they wanted to know more about. They were communicators to explain their project and what they learned.
Approaches to Teaching (0403)
Standard: IB programmes encourage approaches to teaching that create learning experiences that are shown to be meaningful to the school community.
Students in 4th grade are studying the concept of "Structures." Their schedule for the day is centered around the concept of "Structures."
One of the display cases in our school shows artifacts from students and the different cultures they represent. Students are encouraged to bring artifacts from their homes.
Approaches to Assessment (0404)
Standard: Learning, teaching, and assessment effectively inform and influence one another.
Artifacts:
Jefferson County Public Schools Sample Report Card and Communication to Parents
Artifact showing student and teacher feedback on an assessment from first grade.
Artifact showing student and teacher feedback on an assessment from fifth grade:
Assessment: Students create a news cast (written, video or slideshow) to persuade people to either colonize a new area or fix something in our world. Students explore how to make changes without hurting the planet more.
Slideshow explanation- Slideshow Link and Information Organizer and Checklist
How was the past successful, how was it not-how will we change this?
Are we moving, where and how?
If staying, what do we fix and why?
Assessment Tool: Rubric will be used to grade the written respons
4th Grade - Chalk Talk. To gather more information about their students, teachers posed different questions at the beginning of their unit and students responded. They then posed the same questions at the end of the unit to see how students had grown in their learning.
Students in kindergarten collaboratively exploring during purposeful play.
Students in second grade answer some inquiry questions on sticky notes. This helped teachers build an understanding about their students.
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