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Build your legacy Free
Baseball player Jackie Robinson said: "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." Mark Twain said: "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the...
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Advice for parents Free
Although I have led three schools and now work as Director of Education of a family of nearly fifty schools, nothing has quite prepared me for being a parent trying to support my own daughters through...
Teaching and Learning
Teaching for the 21st Century
In a fast changing world in which technology and automation are changing the skills that are required of our students to flourish what is worth teaching? This page provides you with stimulus material...
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Reason
In order to know things we use reason to go beyond the knowledge that is available to our senses. For example, the washing on the clothes line is wet when we return from shopping, and we therefore conclude...
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Understanding each student Free
I have learnt so much about learning (and teaching) from sitting with my 11 year old daughter as she struggles to understand individual pieces of work. Just sitting with her watching and listening has...
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Questions for the beginning of term Free
For me it's personal this year. I have a daughter who is starting her new school, and they will care for her until she is 18. I want to ensure that she will get the best support so that she can fulfil...
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What do our students expect of us? Free
At the heart of the IB Diploma Programme diagram is a picture of a child. IB programmes are student-centred. So what might a student-centred approach to learning look like? As your students return for...
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The focus of every lesson Free
I came across an article recently which proposed three simple questions to drive our instruction every minute of every day in every school. For every lesson we teach our students, they should be able...
Teaching and Learning
Session 5: Using data to inform teaching
One of the six IB approaches to teaching is that it is informed by assessment - both formative and summative assessment. See the pages on the IB approach to assessment: Assessment - what is its purpose?...
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Reflection - how to think like Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock refers to himself as a "consulting detective" and is known for his high-level thinking skills:...