Teaching and Learning
Parent - Teacher Consultations
Parent-teacher consultations are a key contact point between the school and its parents (clients, fee payers). However, they can be fraught with tension on both sides if they are not prepared for well....
IB World School
Intuition
Intuition is a matter of 'trusting our gut'. The actual term, however, is not precise. It can refer to your gut feelings about something or someone (social intuition), how you instinctively respond to...
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Toolkits for collaboration Free
As a school leader you will be responsible for the learning of your staff within your professional learning community. This site is structured around collaborative facilitation tools that you can use...
IB Authorization & Evaluation
IB workshops focused on evaluation
Which workshops support programme evaluation? The IB have brought out two workshops to support schools preparing for evaluation. They are: (1) Leading the learning, Category 2 (2) Preparing for programme...
Blog
A teaching thought each week Free
I work for a community of schools. Each Monday I send each school a short 'teaching article' for them to share with their staff. They are intended to provoke reflection and hopefully give busy teachers...
Blog
How do you bring about change? Free
Most change initiatives fail to deliver their goals. Often the changes do not connect and engage with people. As a result, the change is often perceived as ‘must do’ (imposed) rather than ‘want to do’...
Teaching and Learning
Professional Learning (Development)
Do staff really learn through the professional development opportunities they are offered? What constitutes effective professional learning? The introduction is a reflective exercise on a blog which questions...
Leadership
My leadership
Are you considering applying for a leadership position in your own or another school? Are you recruiting leaders into your own team? Or are you building a new leadership team? Are you the new leader in...
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Quotation | Notation | Reflection
This tool is a good way of providing stimulus to spark a discussion around a theme of your choice. By providing quotations on a specific theme participants are asked to choose the one which most resonates...
Teaching and Learning
Gagné's Nine Events of Instruction
Robert Gagne (1916–2002) was an educational psychologist who pioneered the science of instruction in the 1940s. His book "The Conditions of Learning," first published in 1965, identified the mental conditions...