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Twitter: @mrs_gilchrist
Facebook: Tonya Dawson Gilchrist
email: tonya@erinkentconsulting.com

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Reflective Questions for Reviewing Your POI

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Reflective Questions for Reviewing Your POI

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IB PYP

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Safe to take risks - AND the supports to do so
Promote lifelong learning, love for reading and writing
Differentiated - all needs are met
Time for kids
Feedback
Value kids as readers and writers - we are ALL readers and writers
Audience
Voice & Choice
Agency
Access for all
Community of readers and writers
It's not about comparing
Competent and loving teacher - Warm Demander
Connection & Relationships

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What happens to the bends or units that do not integrate with the units of inquiry? must we finish all the bends in a unit? 

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What happens to the bends or units that do not integrate with the units of inquiry? must we finish all the bends in a unit? 

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How do we promote agency if students have a desire to write a different type of text than the text currently being taught?

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How do we promote agency if students have a desire to write a different type of text than the text currently being taught?

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I loved getting to connect and learn from so many people in so many different places and with such different experience.

I know it's specific to those using Units of Study, but I'd like to talk more about linking TC Units of Study to transdisciplinary themes as we are developing our POI right now.

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Got: Affirmations about inquiry and workshop complimenting each other

Want: I would love to see some of the Teacher's College sample units

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I have a better understanding of how the PYP and Reader's and Writer's Workshop model have similar philosophies. I also have a better understanding of how the two are integrated and how to make those connections for my teachers I lead.

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Gots: Lots of affirmations or what I'm already doing/know what is best practice. Loved connecting and sharing. Loved the breakout room discussions.
Wants: Collaboration time with job alikes and time to work within current units. I'd like to further

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Olga Got: Positive spirit and inspiration;

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Olga Got: Positive spirit and inspiration;

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Want: Challenging students who are not into reading or writing; the balance between phonics and workshops, especially with a class full of language learners

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Got a more concrete idea of how writing workshop can promote inquiry. I would like to see some more references to reading workshop as that is something I am less comfortable with. Thank you

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Gots: Positive affirmation and conversation surrounding inquiry&workshop.
Wants: More knowledge about participant's timing and scheduling workshop in various schools, in both international&public schools.

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That you can integrate your units from TC into PYP Units
How to do the above effectively without overwhelming staff... This is more about the how.
Enjoyed the breakout conversations and learning from others!!!!

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Gloria Lorza- Deputy Head & Primary School Principal

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Gloria Lorza- Deputy Head & Primary School Principal

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gloria.lorza@bostonschool.edu.pa

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Thank you for awesome first session with Tonya. Had a great understanding how to manage both workshops and units of inquiry.

Can we see some examples of reading and writing units planners

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Great discussions in breakout groups and love the refresher about workshop and to speak with others who are all trying to get better. So nice to speak with other educators as we all go through this interesting time!
Appreciated the connections between pyp inquiry and workshop and how they can fit together but excited to learn more about it.
Want to know more about how to balance grade/genre expectations with agency/choice.
Want to know more about profitable conferring and how to create quick toolkits.

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I would like to get more ideas of what the work period of the workshop model can look like. I would also like to get more ideas on how to balance reading and writing as I've noticed the majority of my campus struggles with incorporating the writer's workshop within their day.

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Gots - Love the discussion in the breakout spaces - so affirming and refreshing!
Wants - Assessment/Moderation of writing, Fitting it all in (as well as the other components of balanced lit. (this might be a whole other workshop!!)

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Fatema Chandoo- 4th Grade homeroom teacher and assessed PED leader

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Fatema Chandoo- 4th Grade homeroom teacher and assessed PED leader

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fzchandoo@gmail.com

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Sarah Shannon-4th Grade Teacher Canggu Community School

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Sarah Shannon-4th Grade Teacher Canggu Community School

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srvshannon@gmail.com

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Grade 2 Homeroom teacher
The Overseas School of Colombo Sri Lanka
pgamage@osc.lk

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Lauren Hateley-Crowe - Deputy Head of Lower Elementary 

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Lauren Hateley-Crowe - Deputy Head of Lower Elementary 

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NIST International School - Bangkok
lhateleycrowe@nist.ac.th

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Veronika Gutierrez - PYP Coordinator at Huppertz Elementary in San Antonio, Texas, US

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Veronika Gutierrez - PYP Coordinator at Huppertz Elementary in San Antonio, Texas, US

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vgutierrez4@saisd.net

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April Halverson - Grade 4 Homeroom Teacher

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April Halverson - Grade 4 Homeroom Teacher

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Beijing City International school - april.halverson@bcis.cn

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Gots- I took away lots of affirmations on how to integrate writing workshop within the PYP inquiry, I also enjoyed the discussions and sharing sessions from educators perspectives.
Wants- I would love to develop my gots on the reading/writing workshop in the direction of how to plan for the workshops during the day/week. How to balance the transdisciplinary and unit of study which I find leave me with little time to accomplish the goals of both developing students as writers and helping students see the connectedness of the learning through the unit lens.

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I am sharing 4th grade POI and the unit of study planner - 'writing to communicate'. The unit of study planner runs year long and supports the other language aspects (reading, Viewing and presenting and speaking) that is integrated into the POI. The writing styles are also introduced in parallel connection to the POI through the unit of study.

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I could not upload another file to the same post, sharing the unit planner 'writing to communicate'

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International School of Latvia
obelajeva@isl.edu.lv

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Olga Belajeva; International School of Latvia

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Olga Belajeva; International School of Latvia

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April - Beijing City

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April - Beijing City
Sorry I couldn't put it as one post

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Follow up to above - how to balance student choice in writing with expectation to publish a piece based on a genre study?

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Grade 2 writing and reading units aligned with the units of inquiry  

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Grade 2 writing and reading units aligned with the units of inquiry  

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Can I please have some ideas how to do the reading units? We are in the process of developing the reading units to align with the UOI.

How many lesson plans must we have for the writing and reading units?

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Veronika Gutierrez, San Antonio, Texas, US

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Veronika Gutierrez, San Antonio, Texas, US

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Huppertz Elementary Programme of Inquiry

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Bringing History to Life Writing Unit of Study

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by Chris Gadbury

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Many of these are free resources from DIY Literacy by Kate & Maggie Roberts (an excellent book!).

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Maximizing the Middle of Workshop - Erin Kent Consulting

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I am sharing a second grade unit

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Wendy Jones - Literacy Coach, Grade 5 Writing Teacher

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Wendy Jones - Literacy Coach, Grade 5 Writing Teacher

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United World College of South East Asia

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I am sharing our Writing Units across the Elementary School. We have worked a lot with Matt Glover over the past 4 years and write our own Units of Study.

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4th grade Unit 3

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I am sharing two units that already sit well side by side however I am looking for ways to develop these.

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Copy of   G2_Writing_Lab Reports and Science Books_Dover (2019/20) 

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This runs alongside the writing planner. We also have a nonficton reading unit happening at this time, I can share that too if you think it's not too much.

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Copy of G2_UOS_May The Force Be With You (2019/20)

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Cohort A: Inquiry-based Lesson Planning Sheet

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I've added a grade 5 unit plan with core subjects included. We put specialist subjects (PE, Music, ICT, German) on another planner for each unit.

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Currently working at a school that is not PYP. We are developing NGSS units at the moment. Here is a unit on weather.

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Walworth Barbour American International School, Israel
mhennick@gmail.com

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powers@portlandpublicschools.org

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Chicago Public Schools
rrhodebeck@cps.edu

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I really like the Inquiry Based Lesson Planning sheet. I think that structure and the idea of fusing the IB language and concepts into teacher's daily lessons is going to help them stay true to the PYP philosophy.

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Today was smashing sessions! planning the mini lesson with the atls and profile attributes was so powerful to me. It gave me an insight into what my lesson plan can look like.

wants: a second grade sample unit planner for reading and writing

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Gots: I loved the process of taking a UoS minilesson and using sentence/ question stems related to learner profile/ ATLs to alter them into more inquiry.
Wants: I'm excited to start talking about unit planning next session!

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GOTs: I love thinking about the language planning through the LP or ATL lens. Often this is done in the UOI planning but forgotten about when thinking through the Disciplines.

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Gots - loved the quick group plan about purposefully incorporating language into the lesson and focusing on a few skills in a lesson.
Wants - looking forward to learning about unit planning and trying to incorporate some craft and process units (I think right now we only have genre units).

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Gots - planning with all PYP elements and reinforcing Teacher language as a teaching tool
Want - early years
teaching planning

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Gots: How do we own our teaching? I enjoyed the “noticing” of Tonya’s teaching breaking it down into inquiry, agency, profile attributes, ATL skills. I also got a lot out of the joint planning session, remembering not to lose sight of what is important in the teaching/learning.

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Gots - Learning through a new planning template was valuable; I enjoyed the sample mini-lesson of modelling what open minded and not being open minded could look like when reading.

Wants - Looking forward to seeing more about unit plans and how to fit in all sorts of Genres, Craft and Process.

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Gots: Loved the breakout planning session and the planner!

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Gots - the planning template was valuable and designing a mini-lesson together was great.  Good that we focused on reading today.

Wants:  Following up a bit on fostering agency with EAL or SEN children - and how to cooperate with inclusion specialists to do this

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Does "Genre, Craft, Process" also apply to Reader's Workshop?

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Does "Genre, Craft, Process" also apply to Reader's Workshop?

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Gots- Loved collaborating with teachers and being especially mindful of word choice in Mini-Lesson. Will try rewording more TPs in the future.

Wants- Looking forward to discussing unit planning and learning more about how to plan and balance genre, craft and process study units throughout the year.

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Gots: remembering about flipping a teaching intention into a question can really bring agency to the lesson. Using the learner profile so explicitly in a lesson was new for me. I enjoyed the mini lesson and although I was so tired it was lovely to stretch my thinking in going through the planning process with others. I like the planning document as well.  Thank you for a great session today.

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Gloria - Wanted to Share as we discussed The Learner Profile

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Gloria - Wanted to Share as we discussed The Learner Profile

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https://www.toddleapp.com/learning-library/2020/04/14/learner-profile-booklist-lower-primary-collection/

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I'm wondering how people are putting in fictional genres eg realistic fiction into transdiscipline
work. This is a struggle in our school to do this with authenticity.

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GOTS: I loved working through this together starting from the unit essentials, NOT what unit of study they are working with.
WANTS: I just love where this is going. Each week has been exactly what I need (just in time - not just in case :)

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Gots: I really enjoyed “living it” and looking at the Conceptual Understandings. It pushed my thinking around what might inform, support and enhance the learning in our units.
Wants: I’m really looking forward to now that we have started with the authentic inquiry, how do we support the inquiry with authentic reading and writing skills and experience?

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Gots: Loved being reminded that you can't have the transdicsiplinary without having the discipline - a good reminder
Lovely to work through planning with a different group of people!!

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Gots: I really loved the fact that I looked into the PYP LA scope and sequence. I enjoyed unpacking the PYP essentials and planning unit of inquiry from scratch. It was very authentic.
Wants: I would like to see some examples of writing and reading units planned and some some examples of PYP POI's

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Gots: Loved the thinking about timing and making sure that we aren't blending units in a way that removes agency and that we spend time building the skills first. Great to practice building units with others - as I am new to PYP it's good to see the background work that has gone into the units already made.
Wants:

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Gots: Seeing a big (a giant picture) of combining PYP units and Literacy. Amazing!
Wants: How to offer more choice to young learners keeping in mind positive behavior and instruction following

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Gots - Firstly working through a unit with a group of likeminded individuals. Secondly, digging a little into the PYP Literacy concepts. Big learning was bringing the third bend of a unit into the uoi.
Wants -  Maybe off topic so feel free to ignore, We are doing a lot of work around the structure of process and the structure of knowledge. I am finding it hard to develop my units in this way. What are your thoughts about this. Do you have any ways in for me?

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Gots:  experience planning a unit and folding the literacy in - a closer look at the PYP continuua great.

Wants:

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Gots- I love the affirmations I got from the  idea about being mindful of the disciplinary and transdisciplinary teaching with the elements of staggering time.   This puts my challenges into perspectives in some ways. Also that there isn't really a need to  squish everything into a unit but being purposeful and intentional about what students can and will get out of it.
Wants- How to organise and plan for a reading and writing workshop in a PYP school where we have 1 Language lesson day with all the goals in mind in a unit.

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Gots: I absolutely loved the connect the dots analogy. I think that is a great way to explain the connection between disciplinary and transdisciplinary learning and also emphasize the importance of disciplinary learning. I also liked the connection between the IB Scope and Sequence and the unit planner as that was not a connection I had made before.

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I Wonder: Early Years - Environment as the Third Teacher

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I Wonder: Early Years - Environment as the Third Teacher

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For a Deeper Understanding of Text Complexity...

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For a Deeper Understanding of Text Complexity...

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Deep Dive into Text Complexity: Narrative G3-G8 - Erin Kent Consulting

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TCRWP