New video produced by IB shows the transformative and transdisciplinary nature of PYP.
Taking on the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program (PYP) is a road of discovery for schools, its teachers and most importantly, its students and their parents.
Children in Notre Dame’s lower division, which has been teaching the IB-PYP since September of 2010, will be checking out their new lockers when the first full day of this new school year begins on Friday August 21. For these junior-kindergarten through 5th-grade students, it has been an exciting journey with PYP, one that has invigorated learning and teaching, and truly transformed the school’s community and culture.
As part of an ongoing review of the PYP, IB analyzed its own extensive research as well as consulted with its worldwide school community to confirm that the transformational nature of the program helps to invigorate pedagogical approaches for a learner-centered, inquiry-based teaching method that focuses on the big ideas.
Explore this very unique aspect of the PYP in a new video (below) produced by the International Baccalaureate organization.
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About Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy
Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy is a private, Catholic, independent, coeducational day school located in Oakland County. The school's upper division enrolls students in grades nine through twelve and has been named one of the nation's best 50 Catholic high schools (Acton Institute) four times since 2005. Notre Dame's middle and lower divisions enroll students in jr. kindergarten through grade eight. All three divisions are International Baccalaureate "World Schools." NDPMA is conducted by the Marist Fathers and Brothers and is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States and the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement. For more on Notre Dame Preparatory School and Marist Academy, visit the school's home page at www.ndpma.org.