Conceptual Learning

Diploma

Concepts are broad, powerful organizing ideas

both within and across subject areas.

build the capacity to engage with complex ideas

it can be a very powerful teaching strategy to teach through concepts,

build connections between the ‘new’ knowledge to be gained and their prior knowledge.

plays a crucial role in moving students from knowledge to understanding.

MYP

Key concepts, contributed from each subject group

Related concepts, grounded in specific disciplines

These required concepts also form the basis of the curriculum externally assessed by (optional) MYP eAssessments

Valued and meaningful across time, place and spaceAbstractConcise (represented by one or two words, or a short phrase)Express common attributes of specific examples

PYP

These are transdisciplinary related concepts that connect to subjects and disciplines...

These 8 concepts enable the children to conduct in-depth meaningful inquiry and put learning in a context

We can also have a "discussion forum" where each table given some examples and non-examples of the concepts ... the team members discuss and collaborativey come to a consensus on which ones are examples and which ones are non-examples... and why?

This whole process will help them clarify their ideas and come to a common understanding through collaboration.

Making the PYP happen

What part of a presentation or preperation do I want to do?

What activities can we do?

- Role play: The way students learned in the olden days (accumulation of facts) compared with a classroom that practices conceptual learning

A short fun story with an example of conceptual learning in action

- Charades introducing IB concepts (either acting them out or showing the pictures (PPT) and letting people guess what concept it is)