Beginning of year - professional micro-learning
Tuesday 10 August 2021
As many schools start to reopen for a new school year (in the northern hemisphere) induction and professional development programmes will take centre stage.
The IB have produced several very helpful free professional development courses to help colleagues learn about some key areas of the MYP curriculum. They each around 30 minutes to complete and are therefore really useful for updates.
After you complete each one, you will have an opportunity to save and download your input, to keep as an informative guide for personal use or in collaboration with a colleague or your professional learning community.
The IB teacher professional
- The capabilities that are best fit for a PYP teacher
- Who should be hired? Identifying candidate strengths
- Your own strengths and areas for development
Strong central ideas
- Creating strong, concept driven central ideas
- Criteria for what makes a strong central idea
- Create central ideas using different entry points.
Concept-based learning
Consider the practices and strategies that support students to inquire at a conceptual level.
Learning in a transdisciplinary world
- Understand the value of the transdisciplinary themes and the role of the subject areas within a transdisciplinary approach.
- Consider how these themes provide the context for authentic and meaningful learning
Inquiry happens everywhere
- How and where inquiry is present in our learning community
- Inquiry learning practices
- Create an action plan for strengthening them.
Student agency in PYP learning communities
Explore how aspects of your learning community can support student agency.
Action in the early years and beyond!
How you might create an environment that supports student-initiated action.
Use feedback to feedforward
A look at assessment
MYP interdisciplinary learning
- What is interdisciplinary learning in the MYP?
- What does this mean for students?
- How do IB schools make interdisciplinary learning successful?
Personal project
- What is the MYP Personal Project?
- What might Year 5 MYP students do?
- How do IB World Schools make the personal project a success?
MYP service as action
- What is service as action in the MYP?
- What might MYP students do?
- How does service as action work in IB World Schools?
DP Theory of Knowledge (TOK)
Knowledge and Technology theme
This resource provides TOK teachers with an introduction to the new “knowledge and technology” theme, one of 5 optional themes that appear in the new TOK course (first teaching 2020/ first assessment 2022).
Clicxk HERE to go to the free Nano PD.
Role of ethics in TOK
This resource provides TOK teachers with an opportunity to explore the role of ethics in the new TOK course (for first teaching 2020/ first assessment 2022).
Click HERE to go to the free Nano PD.
What is an IB education?
Investigating Inquiry
How can we support student inquiry? Discover what the IB means by looking across the programmes by investigating inquiry and the role it plays in an IB education.
Click HERE to go to the free Nano PD.
Living and Learning Globally
How do we build school communities that develop the knowledge and competencies that are essential for living and learning in a globally connected world? Find out what the IB means by living and learning globally and the role it plays in an IB education.
Click HERE to go to the free Nano PD.
Beyond the disciplines
In Beyond the disciplines the IB looks at how knowledge is interdisciplinary and how IB programmes prepare students for lifelong learning.
Click HERE to go to the free Nano PD.
Approaches to Learning
What skills positively influence and support a student's approach to life-long learning? Discover what the IB means by Approaches to learning and the role it plays in an IB education.
Click HERE to go to the free Nano PD.
Programme standards and practices (PSP)
Take these free PD courses to support your school’s transition to the 2020 Programme standards and practices (PSP). These courses provide an overview of the PSP, implementation of the PSP in your school and how to use the PSP in your programme development planning.
How does the IB support schools?
Begin your exploration of how the PSP supports schools. Find out what it is and why it’s important. View resource here
How do we use the IB programme standards and practices?
IB World Schools are living, evolving systems – what are the key parts? How do they interact to create effective practice? Use this free learning to help answers these questions and more.View resource here
How do we grow and develop our IB programmes?
Professional inquiry is a key component of programme evaluation and development. Take a look at how the PSP can inform this work. View resource here
Webinars
Go to the IB World Schools webinars page where you will find a complete list of webinars offered.
- What is strategy? by Ewan McIntosh, Founder and Ceo of Notosh Design Thinking process
- Accreditation and continuous school growth? by Jeff Bradley, Director of the NEASC Commission on International Education, Co-founded OESIS Group. Founding Director of School Year.
- Evaluating the Work of Teachers: a research-informed model by Dr Gerard Calnin, Senior Fellow at The University of Melbourne and at the Education University of Hong Kong.
- Understanding finance for schools (for aspiring leaders) by James MacDonald,Vice President Education (US & IB Curriculum Schools) for GEMS Education, former Headof School at NIST International School, Thailand and Yokohama International School, Japan. Former Chair: IB Regional Council in Asia Pacific