Pre+Academy+Activity+2


 * Pre Academy Activity 2 (to be completed by Monday 4 June) **

Below please find two documents you will need to read and become familiar with before you come to the Academy. In order to focus your reading, under each document you will find some guiding activities or questions. You will need to bring your responses as they will be the basis of several activities we shall be doing during the Academy. 1. **//Programme standards and practices//** **– October 2010 (To be used as from 1 January 2011)** [|**http://www.ibo.org/become/guidance/**] a. Please complete the organizer you will find in this document :

b. What is the difference between a standard, a practice and a specific requirement?

c. Which PYP requirements do you believe will be particularly challenging for schools?

As you read the PYP Programme standards and practices (2010) and according to your experience, rate how challenging you consider each requirement to be for schools  to implement. You may want to use traffic light codes: ** VERY CHALLENGING! **


 * WILL REQUIRE WORK! **

Which is the colour you used the most? Do you notice any pattern? Are there any areas with a predominant concentration of one colour?
 * EASILY ACHIEVABLE! **

2. **//Guide to school authorization: Primary Years Programme// – October 2010** [] Which are the PYP requirements related to a school entity and structure?

Which are the different stages of the authorization process?

What will schools need to do at each stage of the process?

Why do you think the visit at the end of the process is now called the verification visit?