Laura Pendergast

A great week @GESatKAUST working with the G3 team. Introducing our new VR from @redboxvr to explore habitats and environments and complete a thinking routine. #vr #edtech #pyp #ib

Our outstanding Pedagogical Coordinators for literacy, @_mrsrees and @clmcewen, leading our lower elementary teachers through the launch of #UFLi. We’re excited for the impact this initiative will have on the foundational skills of our readers @GESatKAUST #reading #skywriting

Partnering with KAUST Smart to bring real life #sustainable #autonomousvehicles solutions to grade 5 students and their #PYPx inquiries. Fortunate to learn from experts in our own incredible community #kaust @GESatKAUST @smagdy82

Partnering with parents - unpacking zones of regulation as a framework to support emotional literacy and self-regulation at home and at school. Led by our wonderful GES counselling team @GESatKAUST #EmotionalIntelligence

Ending the day with the launch of our new edible school garden 🪴 Bringing sustainability, plant sciences and farm-to-table education to our students #Sustainability #pyp @GESatKAUST #WEP2023

Inspiration from a legend on giving back, lifting up others and using your skills and success to make the world a better place @didierdrogba #WEP2023 @GESatKAUST

GES students in G3-5 self-initiated science fair! Students opted into participating, selected own topics and managed their own learning #agency #Science @GESatKAUST

Maybe Pinterest and TPT aren’t the best sources of mathematics information: #iteachmath #mtbos

Wrapping up my week in Saudi Arabia. Last night I joined teachers for their #buildingthinkingclassrooms book talk digging into the first two chapters. Today I get to teach 2nd grade!!! @pgliljedahl

@MikeFlynn55 working with our parent community to help foster ways in which parents can support their children at home with mathematics. What are the ways in which you help to develop mathematical thinking at home? @GESatKAUST

Field Day for G1&2. A time to connect, collaborate in a different way, move our bodies and have fun! Overseen by our incredible PE team who make learning joyful! @GESatKAUST #PhysEd #balance

Any day I get to work with preservice teachers is a good day. Their future students are going to be lucky to have them. Such a thoughtful and engaged group of educators.

Using vertical surfaces in a Clothesline Math task to help elevate student thinking in G4. #Buildingthinkingclassrooms @GESatKAUST @MikeFlynn55

Teacher workshop- Flipping the script and disrupting our thinking around math tasks as both teachers and learners with @MikeFlynn55 #ThinkingClassroomsinMathematics #TeacherLearning #Math @GESatKAUST

Launching a week of learning labs and mathematical thinking in G5 with @MikeFlynn55 #BuildingThinkingClassrooms @GESatKAUST

Library time is a powerful and authentic extension of literacy instruction. Today #grade1 was stopping to notice their wonderings and questions while listening to a great book #readingisthinking #LiteracyMatters #Reading

“I wanted to update my presentation to show that I can make comparisons between two earth-changing events.” - Omar The beauty of having clear levels of understanding so students can frame their inquiry to be more personal yet rigorous conceptually.@GESatKAUST @igeeducators #pyp

Grade 1 team coming together with coaches and pedagogical leaders to moderate student writing samples and identify next steps for our writers @GESatKAUST #Literacy #PurposefulPlanning #DataInformed #PYP

We are recruiting teachers for 2023-24 as @GESatKAUST continues to grow and expand! Seeking lower and upper elementary teachers familiar with inquiry, workshop and the AERO standards. #pyp #pypchat tks.kaust.edu.sa/work-at-tks

Bringing STEAM into Islamic Studies! Mr. Mohammed and his Ed Tech Coach @MrAdamPE used Sphero Indi to take the steps involved in wudu and combine them with basic coding principles #pyp #coding #STEMeducation #IslamicStudies @GESatKAUST @SpheroEdu