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blessing,


Hugo

PYP EXHIBITION (3) A SNEAK PREVIEW

"ICT can play an important role in the success of an exhibition. Students are not required

to use ICT in the exhibition but it provides several practical and creative solutions 

to support the exhibition where appropriate".

(PYP Exhibition Guideline - International Baccalaureate Organization 2008)

As the previous year, Tunas Muda International School launches its PYP exhibition with the ICT "touch" here and there.
The reason why we use ICT because the students need to be exposed to their own nature. Most of them, live their life digitally. Why don't we accommodate it? Another reason is the involvement of ICT is widely opened.
The students use PC and internet connection to support their research beside library research. They do the tape recording with their laptop while interviewing sources. They take pictures for the interview and for other purposes.

Here, I give you the link to their websites. The websites are still developed but surely meaningful. The reason why I use weebly as the main website because weebly gives reasonable price. I have used weebly for two years. My mistake last month with weebly was deleting the students websites from the previous classes. I forgot that my subscription contained forty (40) free websites under weebly. Well, it's a lesson for me!

Have a joy moment reading the students websites!


blessing,



Hugo

http://theaudiosixem.weebly.com
http://theaudiosixes.weebly.com
http://themagazinesixem.weebly.com
http://themagazinesixes.weebly.com
http://themultimediasixem.weebly.com
http://themultimediasixes.weebly.com
http://thetelevisionsixem.weebly.com
http://thetelevisionsixes.weebly.com

PYP EXHIBITION (2) - THE PROCESS

As I told you before, I am trying to give you - the readers - a clearer picture of our PYP exhibition process.

In Tunas Muda International School - Meruya Site - few months ago, the students started their PYP exhibition with a front-loading from our PYP-coordinator, Massy Sitompul. Basically, the session was a brainstorming or tuning-in session where the students discussed the concept and skill they had had. Massy was really an inspiration for the students to see all the exhibition preparation sound and alive.

The next step was the finding step. The students have set their exhibition goals. They discussed within their group about the action and product. I had a "wow" moment when one group came to me and asked whether their questions had been good enough to be presented. I looked at their paper and could not believe that it was them making all the questions. The questions were a living proof how they knew how to start critical thinking. All things in the concept-driven questions were there to name a few such as form, change, causation, connection and reflection. Then they asked me if I could join them in an interview with some sources people. Why not?

Here are some pictures when I accompanied them interviewing some experts at Binus University and C'n'S Magazine. More news to come..


Blessing,


Hugo

Credit: Thanks to Pak Suhud Widagdo and friends at C'n'S Magazine and Ibu Hardiyani at Binus Kampus Anggrek.

PYP EXHIBITION (1)

"The Primary Years Programme (PYP) exhibition represents a significant event in the life 

of a PYP school and student, synthesizing the essential elements of the PYP 

and sharing them with the whole school community".

(IB-PYP Exhibition Guideline, 2008)

For all PYP students around the world, PYP exhibition is surely a big thing. I have been doing the exhibition with my students for six years. For six years, I have seen things are growing differently. The transdisciplinary theme can be the same for two years, but the way the students approached the issues are certainly different. 

In my first year teaching in IB-PYP school, I asked myself: why should we do the exhibition? why bother? Once I jumped in, then I realized how challenging the stage was. I saw how my students applied their PYP attributes within the exhibition preparation totally. The role of the teachers as mentors only took part as a "frying pan". The students are the ingredients, the stove and the fire!

Here I describe the teachers as a "frying pan" because they only a place where the students put everything they find during their independent research. The teachers hold the findings and only the truest and genuine findings can stay within the "pan". After having a "green" light to go, then the students will turn on the stove and lit the fire!

Here also I try to copy what has been mentioned in the exhibition guideline handbook.

The PYP exhibition has a number of key purposes:

• for students to engage in an in- depth, collaborative inquiry
•  to provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate independence and responsibility for their
  own learning
• to provide students with an opportunity to explore multiple perspectives
•  for students to synthesize and apply their learning of previous years and to reflect upon their journey through the PYP
•  to provide an authentic process for assessing student understanding
•  to demonstrate how students can take action as a result of their learning to unite the students, teachers, parents and other members of the school community in a collaborative
  experience that incorporates the essential elements of the PYP
• to celebrate the transition of learners from primary to middle/secondary education.

(IB-PYP The Exhibition Guideline, 2008)

  After this writing, I will provide you all with the latest process of PYP exhibition conducted by my students at my current school, Tunas Muda International School Meruya, Jakarta, Indonesia. 

blessing,

Hugo