POI Horizontal Review
Here are some steps that can be done to review the POI by each year level team members. More details input will be more visible, especially regarding with subject specific coverage.
1. Evaluate the central idea using the pyramid suggested by Lynn Eriksson in her paper about concept based learning.
3. Consider about the international or local events, timing of the year, period (how long it takes) when placing the units into sequence.
4. Evaluate each unit against the standard Significant, Engaging, Challenging, Relevant. Please see the evaluation questions underneath the review table.
5. Include subject related units. Please see the curriculum mapping from this year to complete this and consider about collaborative planning with single subjects
6. Cross reference with subject specific scope and sequence
It’s suggested to the team to divide job for each team member to be responsible to see certain units and then come back to team to share and discuss and make last decision as team.
POI Vertical Review
When analyzing the POI from the lens of each transdisciplinary theme, this process should be done by leadership team and middle manager (year level coordinator / team leader). Below are certain things that you could consider when doing this process.
● On each theme descriptors - have we explored everything for the whole year.
● Have we included these relevant global concepts? See below taken from learners without borders:
- Global citizenship
- Conflict resolution
- Social justice
- Values and perceptions
- Sustainable development
- Interdependence
- Human rights
- Diversity
● Is it concept driven or fact based?
● Age readiness?
● Is there any repetition of central idea and lines of inquiry?
● Is the key concepts are used in balance within each transdisciplinary theme? i.e. All 8 key concepts in Who We are