Kujawa Education Center IB Educators Collaborate With Meridian School Peers

Educators from the Kujawa Education Center attended the Central Texas [icons icon_name=”icon-external-link” icon_size=”14px”]International Baccalaureate® Primary Years Program Roundtable. The Meridian School in Round Rock hosted the event this spring.

Aldine ISD offers the entire IB continuum: Primary Years Program (PYP), Middle Years Program (MYP) and Diploma Program (DP). The Kujawa Education Center is comprised of [icons icon_name=”icon-external-link” icon_size=”14px”]Kujawa EC/PK Center and [icons icon_name=”icon-external-link” icon_size=”14px”]Kujawa Elementary School. Both offer the Primary Years Program and are IB World Schools.

Linda Johnson wrote a proposal that allowed staff members to attend. The staff focused on building a transdisciplinary education program around the IB core. Johnson serves as the IB coordinator at the center.

“This core includes the five essential elements of the PYP that support transdisciplinary learning in the program,” Johnson said. “It is supported by knowledge, concepts and skills derived from the PYP subject areas.

“The IB program supports focusing on issues across learning areas, between them and beyond them, for the emergence of new and broader perspectives and for deeper understanding of the interrelatedness of complex issues.“

Participants collaborated on ways to tie in the approaches to learning skills during instruction. These skills consist of communication, thinking, research, self-management, and social skills.

The sessions also stressed how essential it is for teachers to determine the sequence in which they should teach skills and concepts. This helps students build their understanding from one concept to the next.

“The collaboration was fruitful,” Johnson said. “Working with peers is a great way to gain a better understanding of how teachers can integrate the PYP into IB core disciplines.“