Outline

ISOCS PYP- MYP PED DAY ACTIVITY Fishing in Kanton Zug  Introducing and re-introducing the MYP Areas of Interaction and Six Trans-Disciplinary Themes in the PYP

Outline
This activity is designed, as stated above, to introduce and reintroduce the MYP Areas of Interaction to both new and returning teachers so that they become more fully integrated into MYP curriculum planning across the subject disciplines, and the six transdiciplinary curriculum themes in the PYP.

It will enable us to build upon the last line of the ISOCS Vision Statement:

“We encourage cultural and linguistic integration through positive interaction with local schools, our Swiss community and our natural environment. “

This can be done within individual subject disciplines or across disciplines. By organizing the activity around the exploration of local sites it is hoped that teachers will have confidence to use our local area as a resource in their teaching in the PYP and the MYP.

The activity will take place in pre-determined groups, each of which include representatives of MYP and PYP, English speakers and German Speakers, natives and new arrivals, etc.

See below the “aims and objectives”, as given in the introduction sheet in the packs prepared for the activity (some of these aims and objectives are already stated above but this is how they appear in the group information packs):

Fishing in Kanton Zug **“ The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation…The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” ** – (Jacob Bronowski, the mathematician and humanist 1908-1974)

Aims and Objectives

 * Introduces returning ISOCS staff members to the newly appointed MYP teachers
 * Enables all faculty members to become better acquainted/acquainted with the MYP Areas of Interaction and the PYP 6 Transdiciplinary themes, through a hands on activity.
 * Through the above experience to enable us to guide our students in a more complete understanding of the role of the Areas of Interaction and Themes in their learning across the subject disciplines.
 * To get to know our local area more fully and use it in teaching and learning, one of the objectives expressed ISOCS’s Vision Statement.