Summary of Week 1 Primary Years Programme Coordinator Meetings for 2011-2012:
Grade 1: Text/Literature-based program that covers all strands of teaching Language through a text i.e. Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, Viewing, Presenting
Each teacher could take responsibility for finding a book and associated learning engagements
Consider using one text per week.
Reflection: Consider piloting Liberature-based Language programme and THRAS spelling program in Grade 1
Grade 2: No meeting
Reflection: Gather data about how Grade 2 approaches Spelling.
Grade 3: Gather data about what Grade 3 is doing for spelling. They follow the Collins books. Two options for summative assessment task assessing student understanding of Who We Are through communication, relationships and perpective. Create a checklist for assessing the student understanding.
Reflection: Find out what Collins book level the Grade 3 begins and ends with for Spelling.
Grade 4: Discuss the benefits of THRAS for Spelling Program across the school. Gather data about how each grade level is approaching spelling.
Grade 5: Discuss the benefits of THRAS for Spelling Program across the school. Gather data bout how each grade level is approaching spelling.
Organize Math strands by Unit of Inquiry beginning with Where We Are in Place and Time and by dividing the textbook resource "PYP Integrated Math Year 5" into halves. Try to accommodate strands addressed in the first half of the book (up to page 84) into Units if Inquiry 1-3 i.e. Who We Are (Unit 2) and Sharing the Planet (Unit 3). Accomplished accommodating Measurement of time and distance, Data Handling of bar graphs, picture graphs and tally charts, Number sense of place value, addition/subtraction and multiplication.
Reflection: Consider piloting arranging Math by Unit of Inquiry using the textbook resource in Grade 5.
Specialists:
PE, Music, Mandarin and IT have shared their integration with the current unit of inquiry.
Arabic, Art and French have yet to meet with me.
Reflections: Librarians need to publish their library plans for each unit of inquiry in the Specialist integration document.
