Dr. Petros Georgiakakis

PYP implementation timelineApplication for candidacy submitted between 2 January–1 April 2017

Candidacy officially begins 1 September 2017

Trial teaching begins 1 September 2017

Minimum requirement of one year trial

implementation complete

1 September 2018

Application for authorization due (the application

will be open 90 days before this deadline)

1 October 2018

Verification visit occurs January–June 2019

Verification visit report available to the school April–October 2019

Potential first authorized teaching (begins

instantly upon being authorized)

April–November

2019

General IB documents

• Rules for IB candidate schools

• What is an IB education?

• Consultation process: Guidelines for consultants.

• Learner profile in action

• Learning diversity and inclusion in IB programmes

• Universal design for learning (UDL) and inclusive practices in IB World Schools

Important PYP documents

• Guide to school authorization: Primary Years Programme (leadership)

• Making the PYP happen: A curriculum framework for international primary education (programme coordinator and teachers)

• Making the PYP happen: Pedagogical leadership in a PYP school (programme coordinator and teachers)

• Developing a transdisciplinary programme of inquiry (programmecoordinator and teachers)

DES should ensure that:

• Its mission and philosophy• value education that goes beyond academic

development and • encourages awareness beyond the individual.

• its budget includes the correct IB fees and projected costs for professional development.

• it has plans to meet the PD requirements for authorization.

In-school PYP DES primary school (Interactive European School) 201711-Dec-2017 - 12-Dec-2017

DES should ensure that:

• it has designed a detailed action plan to reflect its journey towards authorization;

This action plan is based on • standards•practices and • includes clear timelines, accountabilities and outcomes

regarding the ongoing development of the programme.

DES should ensure that:

• it adheres to the IB’s copyright and branding guidelines for candidate schools.

• its registration as a legal entity is valid throughout the relationship of the school with the IB. Continuing evidence of validity will be requested by the IB.

• it continues to gain the support of other stakeholders in the school community in addition to its leadership team and governing body.

Primary Years Programme-specific recommendations

• The programme coordinator has sufficient release time, support and resources to carry out the responsibilities of the position, particularly in relation to collaborative planning

• The coordinator that has been identified by the school is proficient in one of the IB working languages (English, French or Spanish)

• The PYP is implemented in an inclusive manner, so that all students in all grade/year levels in the school—or in the primary section of a school—are engaged with the PYP

• All students—at least from the age of seven—learn a language in addition to the language of instruction (schools with two languages of instruction are not required to offer an additional language)

• Sustained collaborative planning and reflection supports the transdisciplinarynature of the programme.