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Comparing PSP framework to MYP programme model

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Comparing PSP framework to MYP programme model

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Programme Standards and Practices

Video & Respond = Watch this video. make  connections  between the PSP framework image and the MYP Programme Model  that we explored this morning, Place your response below.

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Download the attached document. Watch the video linked, "What is an IB Education". Complete in sentences or by jotting notes about an IB Education is and the what an IB education is not. Upload your document by selecting the + below. If you have any trouble loading the document, just add your work as a narrative in a post below.

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Kendra Crews Copy of Lang and Lit Scavenger Hunt

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Alex Wizieck's Copy of Subject Guide Scavenger Hunt

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Liz Hamburch's Copy of Subject Guide Scavenger Hunt

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Both frameworks are connected with finding ways for students to learn that are connected and relevant. They focus on interdisciplinary ideals to help expand the relevance of the lesson. The practices in a IB school must work in unison, much like the different subjects must work in unison.

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had a great time doing it

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IB is getting students to learn deeper, and to be ready for the world's tasks and challenges.

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IB education is: based in core values and attributes. It strives to help students learn and develop these core values and traits. It is student centered, and helps students learn and grow.

IB education is not:
Restricted to a certain field of knowledge. It is not limited to a specific age. It is not something that can only be used in one subject area.

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PSP is like the tape measure for a carpenter. the Carpenter is skills at cutting, (MYP) but the PSP is the materials needed to cut.

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The PSP framework MYP model are interconnected as they both aim to connect subjects and concepts interdisciplinarily.

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I enjoyed and appreciated working on this with our group.

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I enjoyed and appreciated working on this with our group.

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Telia Martin

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An IB education is one that centers around “intercultural understanding and respect.” It aims to create lifelong learners through student-centered instruction. IB also encourages an understanding of how we know what we know, not just regurgitating facts. An IB student leaves the program with both the academic knowledge and the life-world skills needed to thrive in the world, locally as well as globally.

An IB education is not one that focuses solely on what you do/do not know. IB assessments are not based solely in factual information. It is not a series of independent studies.

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Both the MYP and PSP frameworks remind users that everything within the framework is of equal importance and interconencted. The entire framework falls apart if a piece is removed.

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The PSP framework supports the IB school, and in order for the program to succeed, practices must work in unison.  Just like the MYP program model. All parts must be applied to help the student be successful.

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The PSP framework and the MYP framework are interconnected helping the implementation of program for all educators. The
PSP framework supports schools as they integrate the IB philosophy and help educators develop a purpose to the program. The MYP is similar by providing a framework for educators on how to best implement the program. Both frameworks have requirements and specifications that must be met to ensure educators have successfully implemented the program.

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The PSP is a framework to support the MYP. The standards, practices, and requirements/specifications help schools develop the full potential of the program within the context of individual schools. The MYP model with its 8 subject areas; service projects; concepts, approaches to teaching and learning, and global contexts; and 10 learner profiles are the specifics of the standards, practices, and requirements/specifications. All practices must work in unison .

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IB IS:

Aim to develop intercultural understanding

Curious and life long learners

Honest, fair and responsible

Confident in more than one language

Appreciating our own culture and others

Opportunities to have healthy relationships

It means learning what it means to be human in a complex world

Engaging and relevant content in many fields of study

IB IS NOT:
- one strict method of assessment

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What an IB education is:
- based on the belief that how you learn and why you're learning is as important as what you study in school
- aims to develop inter-cultural understanding and respect
- based on 10 core values reflected in the learner profiles (inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-takers, balanced, reflective)
- places student at center
- learning what it is to be human and how to thrive in a complex world
- helps students build understanding through inquiry, action, reflection
- supported by assessments- based on a variety of strategies  through which teachers help students understand how they are doing and how they can keep doing better
- learning by doing
- practical and meaningful culminating exhibitions, projects, and independent research
- engaging, relevant, challenging, significant courses and curriculum frameworks
- helps students explore how to face local and global challenges to make the world a better place

What an IB education is not:
- memorization of rote facts
- teacher at center
- rigid
- encouraging of compliance vs. engagement

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All schools develop a purpose

Environments are designed to support the purpose

Educators can create a culture

PYP requirements = MYP rubrics

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The PSP supports the IB framework.  All pieces are interconnected, and they create a more well-rounded learning and purpose for schools and teachers.

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An IB Education is grounded in the belief that:
*students should become internationally and culturally aware
*the why and how you're learning is as important as what you study in school
*learning should be student-centered and goal-oriented
*students should learn what it means to be human
*students need to learn how to learn
*learning needs to be supported by assessment
*inquiry based learning leads to college, career, and life readiness
*students learn by doing

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The two frameworks connect because each aspect of each framework are in service of one another. In the case of the PSP, each piece works hand in hand to ensure that the school successfully embeds the IB philosophy into their school culture; each component in the IB Framework works similarly in that they are interconnected and woven together to ensure that educators can find natural connections between their existing curriculum and the IB Vision for learning.

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PYP requirements = MYP rubrics Individual schools develop a purpose that reflects their commitment to the IB program. The school then designs their environment to support this purpose promotes educators to create a culture of self and live long learning for scholars.

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IB is primarily focused on student centered learning that promotes scholars to become curious and life long learners. "At the heart of IB - how you learn, and why you are learning is as important as what you study in school." It places engaging and relevant content while making sure its aim is also to develop intercultural understanding. Allowing scholars to appreciate our culture and respect others. One thing that IB is NOT is a singular method of assessment.

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IB Education is system of practices that involves students, parents and educators working together to develop life-long learners. It's a way of getting students thinking about the community around them as well as globally and make connections. This practice helps to promote healthy relationships in school and beyond by incorporating all of the learner profiles. IB is NOT individual achievement.

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The PSP framework is equivalent to a general roadmap for IB schools to fulfil the mission of educating students towards becoming global citizens. The MYP Program model is a means for teachers to help students learn/obtain the skills needed to navigate that roadmap.

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The framework and model are both relevant to what's going on in our world. It is important to keep learning current to what is going on and dealing with our everyday lives especially with the skills mentioned.

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Malawi is moving 500 elephants across the country | CNN

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In Malawi, a conservation NGO is rehoming 500 elephants from one wildlife reserve to another to manage the populations.

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Four minutes-that's the average amount of time wildlife officials have from when a tranquilizer dart punctures an elephant's thick skin to when the anesthetizing drug takes effect.

This short window is the most critical time period if you want to re-locate a six-ton elephant over 150miles.

In late July, wildlife managers in Malawi finished a two-year project that involved moving 520 elephants from Liwonde National Park and Majete Wildlife Reserve to their new home in Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve. The hope is that the transplanted pachyderms will help solve conservation problems in both their original homes and their new locale.

In Liwonde and Majete, booming elephant populations were leading to an increase in human and wildlife conflict. Elephants that encroach on human settlements can damage local crops and livestock, which can devastate a small farm's livelihood. Many of the animals that were transported out of these parks had small, bullet-shaped holes in their ears.

By contrast, the population in Nkhotakota had been decimated by poaching. In the large park, a population of more than 1,500 elephants had declined to fewer than 100 in the past 20 years.

Moving so many elephants between the parks, though, was no small feat. The herds could not simply walk to their new home because the region is densely packed and posed a risk to Malawi's agribusiness.

Veterinarians and conservationists from African Parks, a non-profit group that manages parks and protected areas, carried out the efforts. The teams moved close family groups together (and one at a time). Since elephants are social animals, this reduces stress and increases chances for success in their new environment.

A Mammoth Move

On the day of a move, the teams set out early in search of a herd via helicopter. Once they spotted a family unit, they radioed other groups on the ground to stand by while the elephants were tranquilized from above.

Each elephant was darted with a synthetic opioid that's ten thousand times more potent than morphine. One drop of it could kill a human within seconds. However, this potent drug takes around four minutes to knock out an elephant, and during the intervening time, an elephant is still capable of covering a large expanse.

The ground crews stayed nearby to ensure that a darted elephant didn't fall in water, hit its head against a tree, or fall on its chest, a position that could crush the hefty animal's lungs.

"After four minutes the elephants stop running and they all go down around the same time and ideally in the same place-but it happens very quickly and we have to be prepared to rush in and make sure everyone is okay," says Andrea Heydlauff, the chief marketing officer for African Parks. She was present for many of these transfers and assisted in the effort.

After an elephant fully lost consciousness and was laid in the correct position, officials propped a twig into the opening of the trunk to ensure the airways remained open and flipped its ears forward to protect its eyes from the bright Malawi sun.

Specially made cranes then hoisted the darted elephants into a crate, lifting them by ropes tied around the bottoms of their legs. Once in the crate, they were given an antidote to wake them from the anesthesia. The elephants stayed awake for the remainder of their 12-hour journey north, but Heydlauff notes that they were subdued from the tranquilizer, "kind of like if you had taken a Xanax," she says.

What's Next?

Now that the massive move is complete, African Parks officials hope Nkhotakota will become one of Malawi's leading elephant wildlife reserves and help improve the region's employment and tourism opportunities.

Of the poaching that took place in Malawi, most was done by small local groups using rudimentary weapons and snares, but still with considerable impact. Once African Parks assumed management of Nkhotakota in 2015, they recruited and trained rangers to carry out law enforcement to secure the park, stop poaching, and prepare for the translocated elephants.

Across Africa, though, saving elephants continues to be a daunting task.

Ivory fetches a high price on the black market-in some regions, a single kilogram can fetch a thousand dollars. A survey conducted in 2016 found that 140,000 elephants have been killed for their tusks in the past decade alone.

And in regions hit hard by civil strife, elephant poaching has been especially tough to combat. For instance, Garamba National Park in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo, also managed by African Parks, has seen its elephant populations decline from upward of 22,000 to just 1,300 in the past 50 years where it continues to be plagued by heavily militarized poachers.

African Parks manages a total of 11 national parks and protected areas on behalf of governments throughout the continent, and despite the staggering threats still facing African elephants, they're hopeful they can help other populations rebound.

"We know what's killing these elephants," says Heydlauff. "We can stop it at the source."

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Four minutes-that's the average amount of time wildlife officials have from when a tranquilizer dart punctures an elephant's thick skin to when the anesthetizing drug takes effect. This short window is the most critical time period if you want to re-locate a six-ton elephant over 150miles.

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Hunting Elephants. Is it Wrong?

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Elephants and other animals perish due to drastic changes to climate and water levels.

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A world full of "Dumbos": Human's greed on the rise.

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A world full of "Dumbos": Human's greed on the rise.

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Alex Wizieck

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Elephant Capture and its effect on their ecosystems.

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Elephant Capture and its effect on their ecosystems.

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kendra c

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Elephants in Danger

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Save the Elephants! Conservations efforts are in high gear in this local area.

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Help the elephants! How can we do our part?

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Help the elephants! How can we do our part?

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Moira Moore

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Hunters invade wildlife with no regard to animal rights.

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Hunters invade wildlife with no regard to animal rights.

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Elephants Succumb to Mysterious Bacteria

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Elephants Succumb to Mysterious Bacteria

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Why are these elephants being relocated? What's the procedure for this? Animal stress levels.

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Why are these elephants being relocated? What's the procedure for this? Animal stress levels.

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Desert casualties: Expanding Sahara eliminates livable spaces for all, elephants included.

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Why is the elephant hanging upside on a wire?
What is the purpose of the people doing this?

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What exactly is going on in this picture? Why is it happening?

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What exactly is going on in this picture? Why is it happening?

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Moira Moore

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Where did this image come from and when?

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Where did this image come from and when?

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Why are the elephants being moved?  Are they alive?

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Why are the elephants being moved?  Are they alive?

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What is happening to the elephants?

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What happened to the elephant on the floor?

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Why do people hunt elephants?
Are elephants going extinct?

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Why are these elephants dead? Where is this?

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Why are these elephants dead? Where is this?

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How humane is this method of transportation?

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How humane is this method of transportation?

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Death of Elephant

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- What is the reasoning for killing elephants?
- Is there any moral sound reasoning behind this action?
- How could this be stopped?
- Is there a miscommunication/understanding on how this could be fixed without killing?
- How can we learn to live in harmony?

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What has caused the death of this elephant? 

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What has caused the death of this elephant? 

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Why has this happened?
What can be done to help?

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IB Education deals with everyone coming together to become life-long learners.  It allows students to be thinkers and allows them to use these skills to provide healthy relationships both in school and out of school as well.

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Are these elephants healthy (re: dehydration of the foot)? If alive, where are they being taken to avoid the expanding desert? What can be done to stop desert expansion?

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crack feet cracked backs. what's going on with this animal