Units built on concepts, not worksheets
I mapped the whole Cambridge Global English syllabus onto PYP transdisciplinary themes, so coverage and inquiry stopped competing with each other.
What I've taught
Four curricula, one question.
Which parts of a framework are the curriculum's opinion, and which parts are simply how children learn.
I've taught Grades 2 through 12. Most of my classroom time sits in Grades 2 and 3, and that's where I'm most useful — it's the age I understand best and enjoy most.
Along the way I've worked inside four frameworks. Teaching the same eight-year-old under four different sets of expectations teaches you something no single framework can.
That's what I bring to a planning meeting: not a favourite system, but a working sense of what's negotiable and what isn't — and enough experience leading the meeting to say so without stopping it.
- IB PYP
- Cambridge
- Common Core
- South African CAPS
The data decides the next step
Benchmark results and daily formative checks set each child's next move — not the next page in the book.
Choices left genuinely open
My IB Category 1 focus was student agency: student-led discussion, hands-on projects, and real decisions the children actually get to make.