1. LIGHTS, CAMERA,…………..
ACTION !
By Gunjan & Navneet

2. “Never doubt that a small
group of committed
individuals can change the
world. Indeed it is the only
thing that ever has”
Margaret Mead

3. ACTION MESS!
What are the key concepts ,ideas and
words you connect with action?
Action

4. ACTION !

5. TIC-TAC-TOE
•Select 8 words from your action mess and put
it in your T-T-T boxes.
•Draw a straight line joining three of the words.
Write a sentence to connect the three words.

6. TIC-TAC-TOE
understanding
Connection doing
Real -life Action collaboration
positive
commitment inspiring

7. TIC-TAC-TOE
 In your group, try to use all the words from
everyone’s T-T-T to create a mission
statement of action!

9. PERSONAL READING
•Refer to handout
•Strategies for Taking Action
•MPYPH pg. 25 - 27

10. WHAT IS ACTION?
•Group yourself according to your year level.
Briefly discuss some examples of actions that
your students had taken (refer to handout).
•Pin it up so that everyone can see!

11. WHAT MAKES AN ACTION UNIT?
•Personal connection
•Provocation
•Links to emotions
•Authenticity
•Global and local issues
•Problem finding and solving
•Links to community
•Enjoyment
•Engaging
•Inspiration

12. 4 ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF SUCSESSFUL
INQUIRY……………to provoke action
Engaging – involving learners actively
Relevant – connected with their experiences in life
Challenging – extending from their prior knowledge
Significant – importance of understanding human
experience

13. ACTION
 Don’t plan the Action….
…………plan FOR the
Action

14. YOUR TURN TO SHINE!
How can we promote action?
•Get into 4 groups.
•Choose 1 of the strategies given from the
handout.
•Discuss and present!

15. REFLECTION
•How can we ensure that this can be put to use?
•Review T3 unit planners.
•Ensure that all the 4 essential elements are
evident.
•Include appropriate activities to promote
action.

16. Action FOR Learning
 Is personal learning
 Is something you do to improve your learning
 Helps you learn and think
 Enhances your learning and the learning of others
 A way to get better/improve
 Helps us understand more
 Happens DURING the learning process (choose, act, reflect)
 Doing something after reflecting
 Leads us to taking action FROM our learning
 Examples include: looking for connections, sharing
connections, taking descriptive feedback and turning it into a
goal, reflecting and making personal changes

17. Action FROM Learning
 Action FROM learning is something a learner chooses to do
because of what they are learning or have learned.
 Action FROM learning ranges from smaller scale
actions taken by a learner such as changing
something they personally do to make the world
better (e.g. turning the tap off when brushing teeth)
to larger scale action that involves others and
requires a plan to follow through (e.g. organizing a
clothing drive for a homeless shelter). Action
FROM learning happens because something the
learner was exposed to triggered them to take the
“what” of their learning beyond the 4 walls of the
classroom and out into the wider world. The
learning brought the learner to the realization that

19. The PYP-ACTION cycle

21. What does ACTION look like?
 Action can be as simple as children actively
turning off the water when they brush their
teeth (and, even better, persuading their
families to do the same) after learning
about water conservation……………………

22. The Action Cycle

Reflect… Choose
(In the future, I will…)
Balanced Open-Minded
Caring Principled
Communicator Reflective
Inquirer Risk-Taker
Knowledgeable Thinker
Act
(This is what I did…)

23. Create a list of ways in which
students can take action
-Teaching the community school
students about rights and
responsibilities.
Students not wasting time on TV
-Bringing books/resources from home
to support understanding in the class
Students asking questions on why
people cannot live in peace
Students standing up against bullying
due to difference in colour.
Students writing letters to the Principal
to change a few things

24. -A CHILD REFUSED TO BRING JUNK FOOD
EVEN ON THE DAY PERMITTED AFTER THE
UNIT ON HEALTHY EATING.
-Plant a garden and trees
-Reduce Reuse Recycle
-Students give lectures to other grade
levels/schools/parents
-Making promotional videos/brochures to
raise awareness
-clean up projects
-Students involved in different drives like
donating books, clothes and stationery.
-Students involved in fund raising for under
privileged children.
Creating Awareness about sustainability of
Resources in their environment.
-Helping a hospital
-Signature campaign in the community
-water project. Provide them with equipment
to assist communities

25. Create a list of ways in which you
promote action at your school
-PARENTS WRITE ABOUT THE ACTIONS TAKEN AT HOME
THRU THE PARENT REFLECTION
-Action walls
-Action displays that show the process and outcome
-Recording using different technological mediums about student
action and their reflections
-Assemblies
-journals
-sharing with community
-newsletters
-publicity
-circle time in classes
-weekly certificates
-Holding information sessions
-Making posters and displaying them around school
-Action blog
--Trips to the community school (buddy reading)

26. -Creating websites
-Exhibitions
-Action tweets
-Pages dedicated in the Annual magazine for
action
-Action certificates
-Students club themselves to choose a group of
work in the action committee
-Car pooling
-Students encouraged to make models on energy
effective vehicles
-Through portfolios and student/parent
conferences
-PTA publishes books of student work/writing
-Conducting experiments
-Writing letters to organizations
-Protests portfolios

27. Action taken by students
An action wall in one of the PYP classrooms
depicting students actions and self-initiated
effort

28. A student taking action in the Wangsa Maju
campus after the unit on How the World Works
focusing on conservation of energy

29. Students setting up booths in one
of the shopping malls for charity