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Revision ideas
Revising for the Final Exams As the final IB exams are a yearly occurrence for teachers, it can be easy to forget that they come around just once in a lifetime for our students and are a completely new ...
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An introduction to Reader Response/TOK
A traditional 'reading practice', to which many students will have been accustomed, presumes that meaning in literary works is to be found; the assumption made is that authors present meaning, or even...
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Literary theory
In addition to thinking about literature in different ways, talking and writing about it can vary accordingly. So called 'reading practices' invoke different methods we might adopt in relation to literary...
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The 4 C's routine for literature
The 4 C's thinking routineThe 4C’s is a thinking routine from the excellent Making Thinking Visible (2011) book by Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church and Karin Morrison, designed to help students organise their...
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The literature classroom: some basics
The IB programmes of study make explicit allusion to the notion of cognitive and affective development - the former being a description of the ways in which students make progress in academic knowledge...
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20 lesson starters...
To begin at the beginning There can be little doubt that the opening few minutes of any lesson make a big difference to the quality of learning that will subsequently take place. Opening moments are vital...
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Using drama in the classroom
It is almost inevitable that you will study a drama text at some point in the course and the language of drama can present opportunity for use in the exploration of other literary works. In another section...
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Getting to know your new class...
Getting to know your new class... Meeting new classes at the start of an academic year is always exciting and one goal for any teacher in the first few lessons is to get to know the individuals they will...
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Do now!
Whatever age group we are teaching, the business of how students enter and leave a classroom can make a very significant impact on the kind of atmosphere that is most conducive to learning. One desirable...
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100 Slides
Interrogation of the details of literary texts is something that should be happening all the time in this course - and the more frequently this takes place - of the widest variety of text types - the...