Getting Started
In this section we will introduce you to our site and the philosophy behind our approach.
Thank you for choosing the InThinking ESS website. We are very happy to be able to share our resources with you. We are student-centred teachers who design resources from this perspective, inspired by Harvard Project Zero approaches, particularly visible thinking, and increasingly by the discipline of systems thinking and complexity science. We also, sometimes, inspired to share some of our bigger thinking, going beyond ESS.
Students have their own whole section of the website. Inspired by our student-centered approach, we encourage you to give students access to the student section of the website. Students can explore the site themselves and become independent learners, and you can provide them links to specific pages that support your teaching. In order for this benefit, which is included in the cost of the subscription (there's no cost ‘per student'), you need to provide students with access to the site. See Student Access for instructions about this.
Zoe has over 20 years of experience in IB Education and the development of ESS resources, having been involved in curriculum reviews, assessment, including exam writing, team leading, and examining Paper 2 and moderating Internal Assessment. She is also involved in the design of the Systems Transformation Pilot Course as a Principal Examiner. Laura has over 15 years of experience in the development of ESS resources and been an examiner for Paper 1. Both Zoe and Laura have many years of experience as DP Coordinators and Zoe also has been a workshop leader for over 15 years, in fact Zoe and Laura met in one of Zoe's workshops.
We aim to provide you, new or experienced teachers, with advice in designing your courses, the day-to-day teaching, feedback on the examining of the course and supporting the holistic development of your students. This is informed by all these years of experience and our current engagement with the IB.
We are always open to collaboration and ideas, so do engage with us through the comments or message function.
Best wishes,
Zoe and Laura