How is the PYP differnt from other elementary school programmes?
The Primary Years Programme (PYP) provides and educational framework based upon what is currently known about how young children learn. It draws on the best practices in elementary school instruction. The PYP requires all teachers in the school to plan units of instruction and lessons collaboratively around six important themes. The collaboration facilitates a carefully through-out and sequential development o skills, knowledge, and attitudes, while the organizing themes provide both students and teachers a rich and inviting learning environment in which they can explore. In brief, the six organizing themes are: Who We Are, Where We Are in Place and Time, How We Express Ourselves, How the World works, How We Organize Ourselves, and How We Share the Planet. In the PYP, students are taught to understand that learning is about asking questions and looking for answers, which in turn may generate new, and perhaps more complex questions in need of answers. As teachers work with students thro
