InThinking Subject Sites

Subscription websites for IB teachers & their classes


Disclaimer: InThinking subject sites are neither endorsed by nor connected with the International Baccalaureate Organisation.

IB Approved Workshops
Language B (generic)
IB DP Category 2

Paris, France, 21 - 23 February 2025
Find out more


English B
IB DP Category 2

Berlin, Germany, 28 February - 2 March 2025
Find out more


Virtual Think-Ins
The Individual Oral in DP English B

Virtual Think-In, 6 February 2025
Find out more


The Individual Oral in DP Language B

Virtual Think-In, 12 February 2025
Find out more


Writing well for DP Language B examinations

Virtual Think-In, 4 March 2025
Find out more


Find all InThinking Workshops at
inthinking.net

Blog

Dialects
Dialects

I grew up mainly in Yorkshire, in the north of England. Yorkshire is an area with a strong local identity. My father was a Yorkshireman, and proud of it … and of course I absorbed the feeling. One part...

25 October 2024
SL versus HL
SL versus HL

How do we define the difference between SL and HL for Language B? This is important because we wish to make sure that each student is placed in a course of an appropriate level; and also because teachers...

21 July 2024
To B or Not to B?
To B or Not to B?

The IBDP is notoriously tough, and for good reason. Perhaps understandably, students (and their parents) will look to game the system if they can when it comes to course selection. After all, they want...

14 April 2024
Prejudices
Prejudices

A teacher recently posted a Comment expressing concern about how certain students expressed homophobic/transphobic views in their written texts and also sexist/racially inappropriate /offensive comments...

24 March 2024
Handwriting
Handwriting

How do we write? Or, to be more precise, how do we expect, or require, our students to write? I have recently read an article in El Pais on the issue of how handwriting is gradually being side-lined by...

25 December 2023
Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead

I have been ill recently, which gave me plenty of time to read a couple of novels by Colson Whitehead, who is a much-admired black American novelist with a couple of Pulitzer Prizes to his name. The novels...

19 September 2023
About ChatGPT
About ChatGPT

The AI system ChatGPT is making waves. Launched just in November 2022, it has prompted all sorts of reactions in the world of education, some hostile and some favourable. InThinking authors have been...

01 March 2023
News report? Article?
News report? Article?

There has been some discussion in the Comments section of the site recently about what distinctions might be made between a ‘news report’ and a ‘news article’. So, people ask, what instructions should...

09 February 2023
Shakespeare's memorable phrases
Shakespeare's memorable phrases

While fielding questions about a student’s proposed Extended Essay dealing with the presence of Shakespearian language in 21C English (you can find the thread at the bottom of the page EE tips & comments ),...

28 November 2022
Listening exam,considered
Listening exam,considered

Now that the Listening component has finally arrived after the delays caused by the pandemic, I decided that I should try doing the M22 HL exam, in order to explore how it worked and the level of the...

05 November 2022
Load more
Loading...