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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.
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.