Making the PYP happen, IB Regional Workshop, Beijing 2012

Key concepts in the PYP

Assessing for conceptual understanding
Key concept
Students will be able to
Form
What is it like?
Define
List
Identify
Describe
Observe
Notice
Locate
Function
How does it work?
Explain
Demonstrate
Operate
Construct
Design
Rearrange
Create
Change
How is it changing?
Contrast
Compare
Demonstrate
Infer
Connection
How is it connected to
other things?
Match
Categorise
Distinguish
Contrast
Combine
Organise
Compare
Causation
Why is it the way it is?
Support and opinion
Analyse
Apply
Rearrange
Deduct
Design
Perspective
What are the points of
view?
Compare
Suppose
Respond
Contrast
Imagine
Responsibility
What is our
responsibility?
Criticise
Organise
Support
Support an opinion
Debate
Reflection
How do we know?
Evaluate
Judge
Debate
Support
Value
Analyse
Appraise