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Reflective project
PPS for RP Inquiry 4: How can I think for myself?
As you progress through your CP, you will have already heard words that crop up in lots of different areas. For example, compare, contrast, evaluate, synthesise, imagine and predict. Not to mention areas...
Core eBook
Inquiry 7: How can thinking be part of success? Free
The transversal nature of skills across becomes more understandable when we talk about thinking skills. In this set of inquiries, we explore thinking skills how they might work transversally across your...
Core eBook
Inquiry 4.1 How can I research ethically and critically?
We could argue that the most important skill we can all leave school with, is not how much we can recall from our memories but how well we can discern what is true and what is not. In a world that is...
Reflective project
PPS for RP Inquiry 7.1 How can I develop into a critical thinker?
'Critical thinking' is a term you have undoubtedly heard many times. We know it is apparently good for us, but so is having enough fibre. The key here is to understand where it can get you; it will require...
Reflective project
PPS for RP Inquiry 3.1 What is my own ethical compass?
Let's get you talking, debating and thinking creatively about your values and how they connect with those around you. This is a great way for you to build understanding of ethical issues and dilemmas...
Making connections
Portfolio/LJ: Reflective & reflexive tools
The requirement to be reflective and reflexive is present in all four elements of the core; this is something that takes time to build up. Let's start with just some reflective and reflexive thinking...
Core eBook
Inquiry 7.1 How can I develop into a critical thinker?
'Critical thinking' is a term you have undoubtedly heard many times. We know it is apparently good for us, but so is having enough fibre. The key here is to understand where it can get you; it will require...
Core eBook
Inquiry 7.3 What role does creative thinking play in DP subjects?
We have been exploring how thinking creatively is about risk-taking as you have to step out from what you know, to think about what is possible in the unknown. The more we think critically and creatively,...
Core eBook
Inquiry 4: How can I think for myself? Free
As you progress through your CP, you will have already heard words that crop up in lots of different areas. For example, compare, contrast, evaluate, synthesise, imagine and predict. Not to mention areas...
Reflective project
PPS for RP Inquiry 3: How, where and why might I apply ethical thinking?
The IB's mission statement refers to the importance of appreciating how 'other people, with their differences, can also be right'; this is key to being a critical and ethical thinker. With 'ethical decision-making'...
Core eBook
Inquiry 2.2 How can intercultural understanding develop empathy?
The IB Mission statement tells us that schools are there to 'encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences,...
Core eBook
Inquiry 1.1 How can my mindset impact how I respond to change?
Being able to respond to change successfully is important to mental health and wellbeing. And as we explore here, change is actually very much welcomed by most people if approached in the right way. You...