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If AI can answer the question, what is left for the TOK student to think about? Free
Quite a lot, actually. The more powerful generative AI becomes, the more important it is that students understand how knowledge is produced, challenged, interpreted and justified. The challenge for TOK...
IB Programmes: PYP | MYP | DP | CP
Making international mindedness visible
The IB Learner Profile provides a practical expression of what it means to be internationally minded. Its ten attributes describe the qualities, dispositions and behaviours that can help learners recognise...
IB Programmes: PYP | MYP | DP | CP
International Mindedness in my school
This page starts with providing an example of how one school develops international mindedness. The activity provides you with a way of collecting visual evidence of the three IB aspects of International...
IB Authorization & Evaluation
IB Evaluation
This page offers tools for a school to undertake the self-study and to collect evidence of implementation against the IB standards and practices. Every five years after a school is authorized to be an...
Mission & Vision
Leaders as designers Free
School leaders are designers of the school’s governing ideas (mission, vision, core values) by which people should live and work and the policies, strategies and ‘systems’ (by which the governing ideas...
Mission & Vision
Do we have a whole-school approach to well-being?
A whole-school approach is more than having a collection of well-being activities, programmes or initiatives. It means that well-being is reflected consistently in what we value, what we teach, how we...
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Making strategy meaningful Free
The start of a school year is when strategic plans can either come alive — or quickly disappear beneath the weight of meetings, deadlines, accreditation requirements and the everyday demands of running...
IB Programmes: PYP | MYP | DP | CP
Making TOK part of everyday classroom practice
The IB expects schools to provide opportunities for teachers to integrate theory of knowledge into each subject. The IB Standards & Practices state that: “Collaborative planning and reflection includes...
IB Approaches to teaching and learning
Models of inquiry based learning
Inquiry can range from highly structured, teacher-directed learning to increasingly open, student-led inquiry. The four stages illustrate how responsibility gradually shifts from the teacher to the student....
IB Authorization & Evaluation
Evaluation: Frequently asked questions
Many of the following questions have been asked by IB Coordinators in workshops where they have been seeking answers in advance of their evaluation. They reflect the practical concerns that arise when...