Approaches to teaching

Specific approaches underpin teaching in all IB programmes. The approaches are deliberately broad, designed to give teachers the flexibility to choose specific strategies to employ that best reflect their own particular contexts and the needs of their students (IBO, 2019).

In all IB programmes, teaching is:

Adapted from What is an IB Education, p. 6

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The IB provides guidance to support the connection of Approaches to learning and Approaches to teaching. This is available for Early Years teachers in the PYP The learner (2018) document and for Primary teachers in the PYP Learning and teaching (2018) document. To access a side-by-side view of both, follow this link to a PDF of How Early Years/Primary Teachers Support the Approaches to Learning.

To further explore the Approaches to Learning and their connection to the Approaches to Teaching, you can access the ATLs in the PYP MiniCourses through MiniPD.