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PYP Lines of Inquiry: Screencast Responses from Kindergarteners

Kinder

Our Kindergarten students just completed their unit of inquiry on water. Over the past several weeks, the students used the Educreations app to make their thinking visible in response to questions drawn from the lines of inquiry for the unit. Here is a short video about the project with examples of student work in Spanish and French.

Documenting Schoolwide Initiatives

Diversity and Inclusion

We have four schoolwide initiatives at the WIS Primary School that teachers discuss, receive PD, and implement in their classrooms. Our administrators challenged these “initiative groups” to spend time during our faculty meeting to take the iPads out and document how the respective initiatives are a part of our school culture. Teachers signed up in August for the initiative they want to focus on.

The groups formed into teams to use the Educreations app to take photos, annotate them and record narration to explain their findings. The administrators will start our next half day of PD by sharing these videos with staff to start the day.

The documenting process modeled the effective use of technology supporting learning goals for our PD program. It also further introduced our teachers to screencasting which our students have been doing for some time.

Here is the screencast produced by one of the teams in the diversity and inclusion group. Here is one from one of the inquiry teams.

Using Video to Share Instructional Practices

screencastingWe can record videos of fun activities, celebrations, special events, etc., to share with parents what their children experience during the school day. We also need to record instructional practices, innovative learning, and examples of the concepts and skills our students are learning.

This is especially important when parents might not be familiar with rich curricula like the PYP and Information and Communication Literacies (ICL) programs that guide students to engage their higher-level thinking skills as they construct understanding.

With this in mind, the following is a short video of Cecilia Rios, one of the innovative Kindergarten teachers at my school. Stay tuned for more examples.

Making Thinking Visible in the Kindergarten Classroom

What I Know About Water- a Screencast

Water

I put up a post in March describing the scaled assessment technique we would be using with the Kindergarten students. They just completed the unit on water. We challenged them to use the Educreations app to answer two questions:

  • What is the water cycle?
  • What do you know about water?

Here is the link to one of the videos by a student from a Spanish classroom. Besides the finished product, it was very helpful for the students to mentally process their answers to then find ways to make their thinking visible.

 

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