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Student agency arose as a potential challenge with having the exhibition within the POI. If a school chooses to complete the exhibition inside the POI, the experience becomes more teacher directed, potentially limiting the scope of the experience, losing student interest, and resulting in the failure of students connecting deeply with their learning.
On the other hand, running the exhibition inside the POI could provide the school with more structure which is necessary for such a big task. A common transdisciplinary theme could help in promoting student collaboration, sharing of ideas and reflection. Inside the POI provides structure for students and teachers and might make it easier for a teacher to differentiate and support students. Students have experienced units of inquiry during their PYP education and can find comfort in the known structure and routines. From an organizational standpoint, having the exhibition inside the POI might make it easier for the whole learning community to collaborate. It would allow for specialist’s teachers within the school to be involved more easily if it is done within the POI.

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BIG, hard to facilitate many different projects and truly support and collaborate with all learners

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you pick!

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organization/access to materials
access to experts

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limited scope. students may not be as interested

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Finding time outside the POI might be difficult.

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More opportunity for students to have total agency in what issue they want to inquire into without it having to be linked to one of the 6 themes

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Understanding of how BIG one unit of inquiry really is. There are lots of topics inside to explore

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Allows for less student agency and becomes more teacher directed

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Would this mean shorter UOI for the other 6 units inside the POI? Time constraints could lead to challenges during the school year as well as for the exhibition unit. It says that Exhibition should not be considered as a seventh unit... I just don't know how this works. Would be interesting to see!

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Students have agency and can truly have an opportunity to be completely independent.

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Allows for specialist's teachers within the school to be involved more easily if it is done within the POI.

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Students restricted to a chosen transdisciplinary theme in which their real-life issue might not be included. It also does not let students achieve a deeper understanding.

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Difficult for teachers to support and facilitate. Students might not get the support they need.

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The students will have more agency they have in POI the opportunity to decide on the transdisciplinary theme and the real-life issue they want to inquire into.

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Choosing a particular Theme allows students to collaborate more easily as the options will be narrower. This might make it more manageable for all.

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Perhaps more space for peer reflection, sharing of ideas, commonality if the theme is the same.

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Connecting to multiple themes could be overwhelming. Requires students with a great understanding of the elements of the pyp.

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Teacher have opportunity to develop ATL skills in students.

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I don't know if it's essential, but within the POI and specifically a UOI, learners all have something in common if the transdisciplinary theme is the same. If the Exhibition is outside of the inquiry, this might be lost. It's always nice to have this commonality and use this for reflection, feedback etc.

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Would require a lot of planning with the entire teaching team, ensuring any specialist teachers, language teachers etc are all on the same page.

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I have heard that some schools have the exhibition ongoing throughout the year, outside the POI, but I would imagine it would be difficult for students and teachers to stay motivated. It would be interesting to hear from someone who has done it this way.

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When scheduling the exhibition outside the POI is the element of time and focus. keeping students interested and engaged throughout the whole process.

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Conducting the exhibition outside of the POI presents different challenges.
It could be such a big task! With so many projects, it could become difficult to facilitate and truly support and collaborate with all learners. For teachers, it would require a lot of planning with the entire teaching team, ensuring any specialist teachers, language teachers etc are all on the same page. An exhibition outside of the POI could also be too demanding for students. Students would require a strong understanding of the elements of the PYP, including the themes, ATL’s, Key Concepts and LP. Connecting to multiple themes could be overwhelming. Also, if the task extends for a greater length of time, students may also lose interest in the task and engagement could suffer. Finally, finding time outside the POI might be difficult. Time constraints could lead to challenges during the school year as well as for the exhibition unit.
With that said, by choosing to have the exhibition outside of the POI, there is more opportunity for student agency and choice. There is potentially more opportunity for students to have total agency in what issue they want to inquire into without it having to be linked to one of the 6 themes; they can truly be completely independent.

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Potentially could be restrictive for specialist teachers who are finding it difficult to make a genuine link to their to the selected transdiciplinary theme.

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Potentially could be restrictive for specialist teachers who are finding it difficult to make a genuine link to their to the selected transdiciplinary theme.

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At our school this year we have decided to try and make it open for the students to choose which transdiciplinary theme that they want to focus on. This will allow students the freedom to choose how they want to approach this task. It does pose some potential problems, timing is difficult, it means the other UOI's are shorter and as we all know time is something that every teacher struggles with. Getting everything done. Students have had the opportunity to learn all of the trans theme and as exhibition should be a culmination of their PYP experience should we be limiting the choice of the students to just one transdiciplinary theme?

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Time: Students still need to cover all the transdiciplinary themes, as such the other units of inquiry are shorter and result in less time to develop their knowledge.

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Time: Students still need to cover all the transdiciplinary themes, as such the other units of inquiry are shorter and result in less time to develop their knowledge.

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Time is the biggest challenge that we face, this year our school has decided to do all of the transdiciplinary themes and then exhibition on top of that. One unit will run as a year long unit and this will hopefully tie in with other units of work. However, currently it is not making genuine links to the other UOI's which makes it seem very separate. I also feel the other UOI's at the moment are very rushed, so trying to fit in the inquiry cycle is very challenging.

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Time is the biggest challenge that we face, this year our school has decided to do all of the transdiciplinary themes and then exhibition on top of that. One unit will run as a year long unit and this will hopefully tie in with other units of work. However, currently it is not making genuine links to the other UOI's which makes it seem very separate. I also feel the other UOI's at the moment are very rushed, so trying to fit in the inquiry cycle is very challenging.

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Students have covered all the trandiciplinary themes throughout the year and as such should have a deeper understanding of the different trans themes, this will allow more student agency as they can choose the direction of their learning through their choice of trans theme.

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Students have covered all the trandiciplinary themes throughout the year and as such should have a deeper understanding of the different trans themes, this will allow more student agency as they can choose the direction of their learning through their choice of trans theme.