Las Colinas Elementary

What is an IB World School?

It is a program that encourages children to think globally and is designed to help students develop the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and skills necessary to participate actively and responsibly in a changing world.

Transdiciplinary Themes:

Who We Are – Where We Are in Place and Time – How We Express Ourselves – How the World Works – How We Organize Ourselves – Sharing the Planet

Getting to Our Problem of Practice

Learner Profiles: Caring, Thinker, Risk-Taker, Knowledgeable, Balanced, Open-minded, Communicator, Principled, Inquirer, and Reflective

Attitudes: Appreciation, Commitment, Confidence, Cooperation Creativity, Curiosity, Empathy, Independence, Integrity, Respect, and Tolerance

Transdiciplinary Skills: Social, Communication, Research, Thinking, and Self-Management

Key Concepts: Form, Function, Causation, Change, Connection, Perspective, Responsibility, and Reflection

Las Colinas Elementary (LCE)

LCE opened in 1986 – the 1st CFBISD School on the West Side of Interstate 35

We have Pre-Kindergarten through 5th grade

Our students represent 20 or more countries

Currently there are 593 students enrolled at LCE

We are a International Baccalaureate (IB) World School

Demographics

Thank you for helping us Continuously Improve our Instructional Practice!! :)

How can you help?

1. What level are the conversations and tasks (acquisition, meaning-making, and transfer)? Suggestion: Script

2. What questions are asked and at what level are the questions (acquisition, meaning-making, and transfer)?

b) How long do the conversations last after the question(s) is asked? Suggestion: Script and Time Conversations

3. What connections are students making, and how many students are making connections?

Suggestion: Question students about their learning

Teachers and Students

Essential Questions

Problem of Practice

1. What evidence is there that students are given the opportunity to think critically?

2. What questions are posed that provoke extended periods of conversation?

3. When questioned, what connections could students make to their learning?

Theory of Action

Students at Las Colinas Elementary

are not given ample opportunity to think critically

and engage in conversations with their peers

to make connections to their learning.

If students are thinking critically and making connections to their learning through peer conversations, then student understanding deepens, resulting in an increase of students’ ability to transfer their learning to novel situations.

Las Colinas Elementary

IB World School

Korean Student Teacher Visit - Janurary 13, 2016