Put LEARNING centre stage
"If we want our students to actually learn the facts and concepts and ideas we’re trying to teach them, they have to experience those things in some way that rises above abstract words on paper. They...
May Exams - Tips for revision
Help your students get ready for the IB Final May Exams which start this year on 2 May and run until 24 May 2019. Here we provide a strategy (Plan, Prepare, Perform), top tips (from IB alumni), and blogs...
TOK Essays May 2019
This is a blog to signpost a great website you may not have come across - great for TOK Coordinators. ToKTutor provides "Theory of Knowledge help for TOK Essay & TOK Presentation needs for IB TOK students...
An African Inquiry
Inquiry is at the heart of putting students in the driving seat of their own learning and developing their agency over their learning.. 'Inquirers' is one of the attribuites of the IB Learner Profile...
Agency
I have just returned from chairing a multi-programme IB evaluation visit to the American International School of Mozambique (AISM), a school that prides itself on developing student agency. Read this...
Questions that should be at the heart of each subject
These questions go to the heart of teaching a subject: what counts as knowledge within each academic discipline and how things become known. What leads to significant learning builds on the answer to...
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A simple idea
I visited a primary school today that was trying to teach their children metacognitive skills - skills central to the IB approaches to learning. In every classroom there was a visual of 'The Learning...
International Mindedness - A competition
Here's one way you could help develop students' international mindedness At the heart of the IB mission is the goal of developing young people who can help create ‘a better and more peaceful world through...
Happy Holidays!
2018 was a milestone year for the IB: their 50th birthday. If you wish for a very quick introduction to the IB visit their 50th anniversary website HERE. It has a very useful 1 minute 30 second video...
Quick introductions to the IB
When I facilitate IB workshops for school leaders (administrators) and pedagogical leaders (e.g. on approaches to teaching and learning) I am often asked for succinct summaries of the big philosophical...