Culminating learning

experience

The exhibition

2018-2019 Grade 5

Guidelines and Conceptual Understandings1. The exhibition is the culminating, collaborative experience in the final

year of the PYP.2. The exhibition is an authentic process for students to explore, document

and share their understanding of an issue or opportunity of personal significance.

3. All exhibitions are student-initiated, designed and collaborative.4. The degree to which students are engaged with planning and

implementing their exhibition depends on the students and schools’ experience with the PYP.

The exhibition is an authentic process for students to explore, document and share their understanding of an issue or opportunity of personal significance.

Students demonstrate their understanding of an issue or opportunity they have

chosen to explore.

They undertake their investigation both individually

and with their peers,

with the guidance of a mentor

students demonstrate their ability to take responsibility for their learning—and their

capacity to take action—

as they are actively engaged in planning, presenting and

assessing learning.

All exhibitions are student-initiated, designed and collaborative

S - : ❏ Choose the issue or

opportunity to be explored

❏ Transdisciplinary theme(s)❏ Central idea, lines of

inquiry and concepts ❏ Identify what knowledge

they will need to acquire and what skills they will need to develop.

S - : ❏ Design their learning goals ❏ Establish the criteria of what

success will look like for them.

❏ Co-design strategies and tools to document and self-assess their learning,

❏ Evaluate the success of the exhibition.

C : ❏ Collaboration with peers,

teachers and mentors ❏ Regular sharing of progress

and feedback. ❏ Diverse learning

engagements in groups while others will engage individually, supported by mentors.

PYP Exhibition Guidelines - prepublication

Roles

Who is involved in The Exhibition?

Students

Teachers

Pedagogical leadership team

Mentors

Parents/carers and olders students

Responsible for own learning and contacting and organizing meeting with their mentors

Support development of essential elements and act as mentors when needed

Provide PD to teachers involved, promote PYPx in the wider IB network. Allocate time and funds.

May be drawn from all members of the learning community. Help the students set their goal. They may also contribute as subject area experts.

Are informed and encouraged to contribute their expertise and feedback. They may act as mentors as appropriate.

PYPx

Looking for...

The Arts

Social Action

Science and

Technology

Entrepreneurship and

Economics

● Business plans● Inquiries about social enterprises● Feasibility Reports● Oral Presentations

● Performances● Literature ● Examples of visual arts● Inquiries about artists in all fields of media

that are involved in recording, documenting and making social action projects

● Experiences in community action● Social justice inquiries● Volunteer service

Documented though images, recordings or mixed media.

● Develop flow charts● Models, Coding scripts● Technical Drawings● Algorithms

The exhibition processIdentify global significant issues and / or opportunities that have meaning to students and connect to the school or local contexts

Organizing the learning★ Determining timing and

inquiries ★ Engaging support from the

learning community★ Planning and identifying

assessment criteria

Monitoring the exhibitionMentors support students and students document their inquiries in their exhibition journals.

Preparing for sharing the exhibition. Value is placed upon the exhibition learning process and journey not in the preparation of a large event or production.

ReflectionUse the information documented to enrich their self-assessment

LIS Timeline October - December 2018

★ Present to Pedagogical Leadership Team

★ Receive feedback and arrange changes

Project Plan Review

● Presentation● Desired results● Events ● Timeline● Start PYPx Planner

Professional Development

Global Issues Seminar

Agency sessions

★ Prepare the learning community with the updated guidelines

★ Facilitate workshops, share activities and submit calendar

★ Connect with local and global initiatives

★ Prepare and facilitate workshops, use of Global Issues MYP learning engagements

★ Assign mentors, specify essential elements to learn, develop planner

★ Bootcamp day to identify groups or individual inquiries

● PD Teachers ● Students’ Intro and

prior assessment● Parent’s Session● Mentor’s Workshop● Share with learning

community

● Allocate one period per class per week during Q2 as PYPx

● Organize field trips● Start PYPx journal● Academic honesty workshop● BYOD Contract

● Planner with central idea, lines of inquiry, essential elements, resources and possible products.

★ Mentors work with students based on their planning

★ Teachers monitor the progress, give feedback and support learning.

★ Workshops for possible products.

Monitoring the exhibition

● 3-5 period per week● PYPx Journal● Formative Assessments● Updated group or

individual calendars

Preparing for Sharing The Event

Reflection on the process

★ Students, with the help of their mentors and their teachers prepare the showcase of their learning

★ Pedagogical lead. team invite parents and IB community

★ Monitor and follow up logistics of the day: Refreshments, AC, sound and lights, entrance of students of other schools, feedbacks.

★ Formal summative assessment prioritizing self-assessment

★ Review documentation obtained during the whole process

● Each student finalize PYP Journal, evidence folder and assessment.

● PYPx Planner completed

● Script and assembly acts

● Prepare Booths● Feedback sheets ● Invitations ● Video journey

● Video and photographs

● Posts in social media ● Article for

‘Community Link’

LIS Timeline January - March 2019

PYP Exhibition Planner for students

Students will identify their personal significance inquiry with

the help of teachers and pedagogical leadership team, and complete their planner during the

PYP Exhibition Bootcamp

Monday, December 17, 2018