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I believe that it became more flexible and can be adapted according to the school aim and needs, in addition to the new terminology "Agency" it supports the voice and the choice of the learning community.

-high lightening the role of the Language to support the learning community and facilitate authentic inquiry.

-The definition of the PYP Curriculum framework.

-The enhancements supports  the ATLs  implicitly and explicitly ,which will help learners  make connections and map them with the Learner profile for deeper understanding.
Nouran GH.

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For me addition of agency is the most significant enhancement because it takes the focus away from teaching and learning and puts it on effective and positive change. Positive change takes many forms in the context of learning and allows us the flexibility to truly be innovative, and unique when strategizing. It means inclusion, not only for challenged students and SEN learners, but for parents, guardians, and the wider community. It's all about agency.

Sam Welbeck

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By this, I mean that not all stakeholders are yet conversant in the enhancements. I believe we still have some way to go in making the enhancements as well known to all stakeholders as the previous PYP was. This includes leaders and parents as well as students and teachers.

Sam Welbeck

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the focus on agency " voice, choice, and ownership" is remarkable and important because this will encourage all students to take responsibility of their learning.

Safy Youssef

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Most of us are not familiar with the enhancements. We are trying to learn more about it but still, we are not fully aware of it.

Safy Youssef

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How can we best achieve the balance between class control and student agency?
How can we promote learner agency in planning without affecting our curriculum?

Safy Youssef

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I think the most important factor about the PYP enhancements is the stress on Agency to be the core of the enhanced PYP which will greatly affect the learner, Learning and Teaching as well as the learning community.

I believe that agency is a powerful mean to support all the members in the learning community through promoting their voice, choice, and ownership in order to maintain a positive educational culture and a community of independent learners who take responsibility for their own learning.

Another important aspect in the enhanced PYP is the embedding of "Reflection" key-concept throughout the programe of inquiry.

Furthermore, the inclusion of literacy skills is an important factor for information gathering, critical and creative thinking as well as for communication and collaboration.

The focus on inclusion and the well-being of learners will also foster a school culture of belonging, trust , and self-efficacy.

In this way, I believe that the enhanced PYP supports the integration of international - mindedness through agency , approaches to learning , learner profiles , forms of actions and a flexible learning environment which will allow learners to achieve conceptual understandings.

Nesma Essam

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Familiarity with the PYP enhancements is the current challenge. Implementing the enhanced PYP requires a full understanding by stakeholders, leaders, students , and parents to explore the main factors which will bring about a change in the learning process that will take place. Moreover, introducing the critical changes in the PYP will remain a challenge especially for the parents as they are not fully aware of the enhancements of PYP and it will take time to get used to it.

Therefore, in order to effectively implement the modifications  in the PYP, we need to consider the what? , How? , and Why?  of the enhanced PYP and critically analyze it as well as we should plan for a framework in action and how can we introduce it to the parents.

Nesma Essam

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- How can we introduce the enhancements of the PYP to both students and  parents?

- How can we plan for the future to bring about an effective change?

- How can we design learning engagements to further promote ATLs and learner profiles in the enhanced PYP?

- How can we assess students' understanding in the enhanced PYP?

Nesma Essam

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I believe that one of the most important  changes in the enhanced pyp is the update in the IB model in order to involve the agency instead of the student only as it takes learning beyond school walls through involving the parents in the learning process.

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I believe that one of the most important  changes in the enhanced pyp is the update in the IB model in order to involve the agency instead of the student only as it takes learning beyond school walls through involving the parents in the learning process.

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Rana Anwar

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The priority of language as  it is  a mean to facilitate the inquiry is a great add to the enhanced pyp. Also having  a student's language portrait that includes  the student's preference,background,goals that would help in planning and develop his language is one of the most important updates in the pyp enhancements.
Rana Anwar

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The flexibility in planning according to the school's needs is an advantage in the enhanced pyp. 

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The flexibility in planning according to the school's needs is an advantage in the enhanced pyp. 

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Rana Anwar

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The enhanced pyp support combining the learner profile and skills in different learning experiences ,that will support development and mapping of the ATLs. As well as embedding the attitudes into the learner profile which will make it easier to implement and understand specially for early years.

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The enhanced pyp support combining the learner profile and skills in different learning experiences ,that will support development and mapping of the ATLs. As well as embedding the attitudes into the learner profile which will make it easier to implement and understand specially for early years.

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Rana Anwar

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I think the most important high-level ideas about the PYP enhancements are how we are supposed to implement ATLs in planning and how to link them to students' learning profile. I believe that ATLs implementation is the key to prepare students to be 21st century literate citizens who are open to the global community and have leadership in the future. By implementing them, we put new-literacies into action. These multi-literacies are the key to success and survive in the future as well. 

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I think the most important high-level ideas about the PYP enhancements are how we are supposed to implement ATLs in planning and how to link them to students' learning profile. I believe that ATLs implementation is the key to prepare students to be 21st century literate citizens who are open to the global community and have leadership in the future. By implementing them, we put new-literacies into action. These multi-literacies are the key to success and survive in the future as well. 

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Nevien Hussein

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Early years age range is extended to be 3-6 instead of 3-5 years and we can teach minimum 4 units at each year , 2 of which must be within the themes "who we are" and "how we can express ourselves".
This allows us to plan for uninterrupted time for play, build relationships with the students and their families, create interactive learning spaces and offer different opportunities for exploration and expression.
Dina Ragaie

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Attitudes are now subsumed within the descriptors of the Learner profiles and no longer a separate element, this moves the focus towards monitoring and documenting the students' development of the Learner profiles and allows self-reflection.
Dina Ragaie

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The agency and student-initiated action as an integral part of the learning process that can take place anytime and anywhere.

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I think one of our biggest challenges is we are still getting familiar with the new unit planner while implementing it as we are not fully aware of the new updates.

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I think one of our biggest challenges is we are still getting familiar with the new unit planner while implementing it as we are not fully aware of the new updates.

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Rana Anwar

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New-literacies and implementation of students' agency and ATLs

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New-literacies and implementation of students' agency and ATLs

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It is a great challenge to let parents be updated with all these changes that have been updated to the IB system. Also, I believe that students' agency and implementations of ATLs should not stop at school; however, when parents are taking part in their children progress and enable them to have this as a kind of lifestyle. This will enable such changes to be   embedded in the learners' personality. Generally, for me this is the biggest challenge. When school and home speak the same language a great difference will take place.
Nevien Hussein

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There are 7 key concepts and reflection now is embedded in multiple ways throughout the programme.
Dina Ragaie

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Schools design a POI that consist of 6 units of inquiry and there is a flexibility for each school to design their own unit planners, as long as they are following the new collaborative planning process.
Dina Ragaie

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As the agency includes different stakeholders ,the resistance towards the new changes from parents might be one of the biggest challenges.

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As the agency includes different stakeholders ,the resistance towards the new changes from parents might be one of the biggest challenges.

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Rana Anwar

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The attempt to balance between language and inquiry became a challenge to the teaching staff specially after the lock down which affected the students level and progress in a negative way.

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The attempt to balance between language and inquiry became a challenge to the teaching staff specially after the lock down which affected the students level and progress in a negative way.

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Rana Anwar

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The enhancements support mapping the ATLs with the Learner profiles in a context. This will result in a deep understanding and well tailored learning experiences.
Dina Raagaie

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How I can implement students' agency in class as this is my biggest concern at the current time as well as how to implement ATLs effectively in class and at the same time help my students to be aware of them?
Nevien Hussein

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Tailing the learning experience specially after combining and mapping the learner profile with skills limits the variety and is challenging specially for early years.

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Tailing the learning experience specially after combining and mapping the learner profile with skills limits the variety and is challenging specially for early years.

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Rana Anwar

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Inquiry remains the main approach to learning and teaching, where we need to focus on the agency-voice, choice and ownership to encourage our students to take the responsibility for their own -learning.
Dina Ragaie

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Schools encourage inclusion and well-being to foster positive relationships, Moreover schools create flexible and inviting learning spaces that support agency wellbeing.
Dina Ragaie

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Language became a top priority in the PYP enhancements as a mean to facilitate inquiry , also Language acts as a tool to enhance international mindedness ,so students are able to communicate globally ,express their identity and express their needs and interests.
Dina Ragaie

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I wonder
How can i implement the agency and involve the parents as they are one of stalkholders while they are showing resistance to the new changes?

How can i balance in my planning between the language and the inquiry as it is left to each school to plan it according to their student's needs?

Rana Anwar

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Stakeholders involvement in PYP enhancements' application 

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Stakeholders involvement in PYP enhancements' application 

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As we are promoting the agency which involve not only the students ,but also different teaching and non-teaching staff. We may face challenges as we are not familiar with these enhancements and most of the stakeholders are not on the same level of awareness and commitment. We may face some resistance from our parents to be involved in our learning process and the way we are trying to implement these enhancements in our school community, we are trying to overcome this by opening different communication channels with our parents and do alot of orientations to help them be familiar with the new changes and updates. Moreover the teaching staff is facing a challenge to balance between their tight schedules and assigned tasks and to attend different PD programs or to inquire into the ways to implement these enhancements in their classrooms.
Also our learners passed a very tough time last year and they skipped many important concepts due to the lockdown and we are trying to compensate that this year by taking extra care of the content which may appear to mask the inquiry-based and the concept-based approaches we are adopting , but we are trying to achieve this balance by transmitting our learning process beyond the school walls, by sending multiple tasks , get the parents involved, don't limit the inquiry inside the class and send many asynchronous tasks by using our digital resources to have extra time for inquiry inside the school.
Dina Ragaie

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In the enhanced PYP  there is a great emphasis on the role of the learning community. Everyone in the learning community is a key agent, taking actions to induce change.

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-I think that the flexibility to decide  the appropriate time frames and duration for each unit of inquiry with minimum three to four week will make it so much easier.

- I also believe one of the most important points is that language will be embedded throughout the learner, learning and teaching , and the learner community. This will definitely enhance and support the school culture of language learning and international mindedness.

- the enhanced PYP also encourage students to take responsibility of their own learning as there is an explicit focus on voice , choice and and ownership .

Salma Gamal

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since the begging of this year we are facing a big problem with making balance between inquiry and  language sessions by working on  students' receptive and productive skills -which is a key to a fruitful and rich inquiry sessions- .

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since the begging of this year we are facing a big problem with making balance between inquiry and  language sessions by working on  students' receptive and productive skills -which is a key to a fruitful and rich inquiry sessions- .

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Salma Gamal

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what is the best way to balance between language and inquiry plan baring in mind that students need to work on language as it hinders any smooth transition of any learning experience .
what is the best way to apply the the ATLs in the lesson plan or learning experience ?
Salma Gamal

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-How can we encourage parents to participate in the PYP enhancements?

- What is the most effective way to apply the agency with the students?

Vivian Gamil

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-More flexibility - open ended timeframes for units of inquiry
-Focus on agency - voice, choice and ownership.
-The new approach focusing on language that will facilitate the entire learning process.
-Reflection will be integrated throughout all learning and teaching to strengthen inquiry.

Sarah Mohamed

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-Involving all stakeholders in this journey is a major challenge that we face as they're not all familiar with it yet.
-A big gap appeared after last year's lockdown. Accordingly, we as teachers had to re-visit last year's concepts so we can build up on. In addition to that, we have very tight schedules (focusing more on language), various tasks and PD, which puts teachers, students and parents under stress all the time.
To overcome this, we're sending tasks back home with students, involving parents whenever possible, and collaborating to come up with ideas to better deliver the content to our learners.

Sarah Mohamed

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-How can we involve parents in this transition, putting into consideration their continuous resistance to changes.
-Best practices to promote ATLs, agency and assess them.

Sarah Mohamed

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I like the idea that " Agency is not something that is given to children, it is something they already have". So, the enhanced PYP emphasized the idea of  respecting and supporting the learners' choice, voice and ownership that will help them to know their rights and responsibilities. It's not only about the student but everyone connected to the school community has voice, choice and ownership to impact the learning and teaching.
Dalia Zidan

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During the lockdown some parents used with their kids the old fashion way of teaching " teacher- centered" ; reading, researching and understanding the new concepts  then finalizing and summarizing the tasks  on behalf of their children to make it easier for them to study the final results as they have thought it was better for them not to waste too much time gathering data and reading on their own. Therefore, one of the biggest challenges is to help these students to regain their self-confidence  in their ownership and responsibility to gather data and do tasks on their own.
Moreover, we had to go over the concepts of the previous academic year, due to the lockdown, before teaching this year's concept.

Vivian Gamil

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enhanced PYP teachers will, as creative

professionals, have greater freedom to design

learning engagements and teach in ways that enable

their students to take greater control over their own

learning as every teacher is aware of his students' abilities.
Dalia Zidan

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integration of international-mindedness

through action, agency, language, the learner profile and the shared responsibilities will help learner to dig deeper for better understanding.
Dalia Zidan

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The important ideas about the PYP enhancements:

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The important ideas about the PYP enhancements:

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- Focus on Agency " voice, choice and ownership" as it is  the most important tool to build the students' characters.
- Implementation of  the ATLs in the learning process.
- Focus on language that will make the learning process easier. Moreover, it will facilitate the interaction between students for their well being.

Vivian Gamil

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-Learning environment is very crucial to inspire creativity, collaboration and help students to develop and demonstrate attributes of Learner profiles, however due to covid-19 precautions ,learners are staying in their bubbles and don’t move freely or go into field trips or be exposed to authentic situations which influence their learning experience negatively.
-Learning community is no longer inclusive to the school walls, so how we can guarantee or encourage positive parents’ involvement and how to include parents and students in decision making to enhance learner agency.
Dina Ragaie

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-Language is central to inquiry and to access and process knowledge and develop conceptual understandings , Our young learners are not fluent in English which stand as a barrier in the face of inquiry, here comes the importance of the new approach to language.
-How to encourage our  young learners (3-6 years) to be assessment-capable students who will be able to reflect on their learning.
Dina Ragaie

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To get all the stakeholders ; learners, teaching stuff ,non teaching stuff and parents involved  in this change is a big challenge as they are still unfamiliar with the PYP enhancement.
Dalia Zidan

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Three main areas in the enhanced PYP: The learner, learning and teaching and the learning community

As for the learner, AGENCY is the key word. It is when learners have the power of voice, choice and ownership of their own learning. Moreover, extending the age of early years allowing them to have minimum four units throughout the year, this will definitely allow more chance for play, social and emotional development of the young learners as well as offering many opportunities for authentic explorations.

In the learning and teaching, one of the main changes is renaming the transdisciplinary skills to be Approaches to Learning. Furthermore, there is a flexibility for schools to create their own subskills if not following the subskills provided by the IB. ATLs changes took place to align with other IB programmes as well as supporting Inquiry establishing a base for lifelong learners.

Attitudes are no longer there however it is embedded in the Learner profile attributes. Emphasizing the significance of the learner profile attributes across the learning community is of high importance.

In the Learning community more focus is on wellbeing, self-efficacy, and inclusion.
Radwa Mohamed

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The most important ideas about pyp enhancement 

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Involving and including parents and legal guardians in learning and teaching in an inclusive way is an expression of international mindedness this two ways of process raises school and teachers awareness to how culture and expectations .This reciprocal process with the students, the learning community and the family supports everyone to have a voice in school decision making
Building relationship in the school community
Marwa fadel

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One of the most important  high -level ideas about the PYP enhancements is digging deeper in the ATLs and sub-summing the attitudes under the learner profile attributes. When the ATLs and the learner profile attributes are combined, they will help students become more self - regulated as they will have the power to control their own goals and actions.
Zeina Amer

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The most important ideas about PYP enhancement 

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The most important ideas about PYP enhancement 

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1.       Care about Language it supports inquiry and authentic learning in the PYP environment

2.       To focus on ATLs and learner profile to provide learners with tools that they will need in their real life.
Omnia El-Safoury

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The idea of having more specialist teachers really thrills me since sometimes homeroom teachers really struggle in facilitating scientific concepts. They keep inquiring, exploring, and studying to help students reach the required scientific concepts, knowledge, or understandings. Therefore, having specialist teachers with science background will definitely help deepening students'' understandings.
Zeina Amer

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When I started inquiring into the PYP Enhancements,  I felt deciding where to begin with the Enhancements is not an easy decision at all. I am wondering, shall we start with inquiring into what an agency is since this word is the core word of the Enhancements, or shall with teaching staff, or parents?
Zeina Amer

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I believe that the biggest challenge lies in time management and deciding where to start from. I mean familiarizing all stakeholders with the Enhancements will take time, therefore it's important to prioritize this issue and decide who should start with. I know it is a process that will take time, but it needs a meticulous plan.

Zeina Amer

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It’s difficult to define the most important ideas as the PYP enhancements have significance and improve all aspects of teaching, learning and the school community. However, it is my belief that the following ideas about the PYP enhancements are priorities:

-  Focusing on Agency–voice, choice and ownership in learning process encourages active inquiring students to take responsibility for their own learning.

-    The processes of learning and teaching in early years that includes play, relationships, learning spaces, and symbolic exploration and expression is strongly engaging with technology, language and development of skills.

-    PYP enhancements guide and support inclusive teaching by showing learning opportunities that help each student to develop and follow applicable personal goals.

Beata Kroczek

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How to make sense of and explain the new curriculum model to others, especially to those who are new to the programme?

How to convince teachers that the changes in the Enhanced PYP are designed to make implementation of the PYP easier and more successful?

How might we create an environment where teachers position themselves as learners and feel appreciated?

Beata Kroczek

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The main points are : the agency and empowering the students.
The flexibility of the system and how it supports the learning community .
the importance of the language content and how it will enrich the inquiry method .
The ATLs and how its connected to the learner profiles and how it is distributed through out the units .
The enhanced PYP system gives the opportunity to the students to design their assessment tools  to build deeper understanding to the taught concepts.
Nada Fathi

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- Agency is the core  that the other parts revolves around .Agency is fundamental to learning.It enables inquiring students , facilitators ,parents and other members in the learning community to play a part in self development ,adaptation and self-renewal with changing times.Agency as  an important
high -level idea will  be a key of empowerment.

Ebtehal Mamdouh

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I consider "flexibility" a high - level idea and  one of the advantages of  promoting "Agency" as well.
We will be able to use our voice and choose (timeframes , types of inquiry ,subskills etc.) .Learners will take the chance to show us their power to transform their own lives and the lives of others ( ex. exhibition).

Ebtehal Mamdouh

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I really appreciate this enhancement as it effects me as a teacher personally as much it affects the student.

Teacher agency grants for the teacher the same space, flexibility and opportunities that we try to afford for the student to get developed. The teacher gets developed every time he/she works on developing the curriculum and it happens almost every day, that's why I guess we have in the outer circle Trusted, Timeless and Transformational
describing the title Building For the Future.

Abdelrahman Sherief

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The Highlight of the enhancement is the Agency

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The Highlight of the enhancement is the Agency

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By Agency, the IB have focused more on social emotional learning and on other stakeholder involvement. Different funds of knowledge will be utilized inside classrooms.

Moemen Emam

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The biggest challenge besides comprehension and implementation of the enhancements is relying the message to all stakeholders. In the Egyptian context, IB is the least familiar educational program. Non-specialized stakeholders will be troubled by all the concepts that seem similar to each other.

Moemen Emam

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I like that the enhanced PYP focused on students’ agency, which encourages students to have higher level of freedom and power in their learning environment. It gives the students the opportunity to take the full responsibility for their learning.

Moustafa Emam

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The most important high-level ideas about the PYP enhancements:

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The most important high-level ideas about the PYP enhancements:

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Inclusion
Differentiation
Modification
Accommodation

Alyaa El Sawy

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Agency in the PYP learning community is about voice, choice, leadership in everything that happens. I believe that we should involve students during the learning process to support them to be decision makers.
Anan ElSirafy

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As a language teacher, I am trying to make balance between inquiry and  language specially because we introduce a new language in the age of 7.
Anan ElSirafy

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1- How can we create a challenging environment during sessions?
2- How can we convince parents that the enhancements of PYP helps as to apply easier the IB philosophy?
Anan ElSirafy