Concept-driven and transdisciplinary learning

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Conceptual understanding:

Transdisciplinary learning design deepens students’ understanding of complex ideas.

Line of inquiry:

A concept-driven curriculum
Transdisciplinary learning and teaching

Overview

Concept-based inquiry is a powerful vehicle for learning that promotes meaning and understanding, and challenges students to engage with significant ideas.
Concepts are powerful, broad and abstract organizing ideas that may be transdisciplinary or subject-based.
Concepts help to build understandings across, between and beyond subjects.
Specified concepts provide a lens for conceptual understandings within a transdisciplinary unit of inquiry; related concepts provide a lens for conceptual understandings within a specific subject.

Specified concepts

(Reflection is no longer a specified concept)

ThinkingKeys_Stephanie.mp4

Questioning

Choose an object and use the paper to come up with questions to support each key concept. Which were the hardest to write? Why? What does that tell us about the questions students tend to ask?

Use these specified concept question stems if you need more help.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16-9nNQ5t2a38a-IN0Bdu7nIiSxPvuOdl/view?usp=sharing

FOR YOUR REFERENCE:

Principles into practice - Learning and Teaching:

- A concept-driven curriculum
- Concepts
- Key concepts
- Related concepts
- From concepts to conceptual understandings

Concepts from PiP.pdf

Additional concepts

Go back to your key concept map you created from your object earlier - what related concepts could your object allow you to inquire into?

Transdisciplinary theme descriptors

New transdisciplinary themes descriptors

Preparing for the new PYP Subject Guidance (1).pdf

Exploring the transdisciplinary themes - BUS STOP

Referring to the standards and content that you work with, try to come up with at least one topic that could be taught under each theme e.g. the American Civil War could go under Sharing the planet.

Write your ideas on the chart paper used in the first activity so that we can see how these themes might look throughout a student’s years in the PYP.

What is transdisciplinary learning? PLACEMAT

Write your own definition of what you think Transdisciplinary Learning is. Consider the following:

What does transdisciplinary learning look like in your classroom currently?
How do you know that transdisciplinary learning is taking place?
How do you think you assess transdisciplinary learning?
What needs to change as you develop an upcoming unit of inquiry?
How will you implement the changes in collaboration with your team?

Jigsaw reading:

Learning and teaching/ Transdisciplinary learning/ Transdisciplinarity in the PYP Framework
Learning and teaching/ Transdisciplinary learning/ Characteristics of a PYP framework
Learning and teaching/ Transdisciplinary learning/ Elements of the PYP Framework
Learning and teaching/ Transdisciplinary learning/ Transdisciplinarity

Do we need to make any changes/additions/edits from our previous definition?

Transdisciplinary learning .pdf

Reflection

How are you using concepts to help students make meanings and connections to your learning?
What are you learning about the key elements of the PYP framework that promote transdisciplinary learning and teaching?
How are you applying your learning about transdisciplinarity in your school?
Based on the input from this session, is there anything you would like to add to your action plan?

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