Agency is such as important part of the enhanced PYP and I would like to know further ways to facilitate this through workshops that enable participants to readily adopt, adapt and apply learner agency to their context.

Continual reflection will be key to ensuring workshop delivery, content and experiences are connected to the changes. Making full use of reflective threads is a great way to keep track of the thinking process throughout so being able to identify what is needed and how to plan for this will be a new way to work within the workshop. I think I’ll give this a try with the students I teach to get a feel for how it can work so I know how to facilitate this reflective approach. 

Learner Agency is a part huge my excitement! Ensuring agency is at the heart of the workshop structure and enabling PYP educators to develop this further within schools is a bonus, enabling everyone to flourish in their learning.

New PYP materials to support learning and teaching will be invaluable and guide educators to ensure schools become learning environments which are collaborative communities working to meet the needs of independent, responsive learners. 

Use of personas in workshops adds a new element to support teacher connections and meaningful experiences.

Workshop planning and resource materials is timely to enables greater consistency within the IB community while also ensuring WSL have necessary direction and guidance.

Raising reflection to be a major emphasis is so exciting! By being ongoing and a key element to every part of the PYP philosophy it builds insightfulness, promotes collaboration, challenges us and makes change a more natural process. 

Having time to internalise the new PS&P will help get myself in the right ‘head-space’ so I can make the necessary connections, be more informed and then support other PYP practitioners.