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Put LEARNING centre stage Free
"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...
Teaching and Learning
What are we doing to our children?
This page is a reflective think piece. It asks colleagues to put on new lenses to see what they are doing in a new light. It is a moment to stop and think about what we are doing to our children in school....
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May Exams - Tips for revision Free
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...
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TOK Essays May 2019 Free
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...
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An African Inquiry Free
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...
Leadership
Recruiting senior and middle leaders
Schools thrive or suffer from the quality of its leaders. One of the most important things a Head of School does is to recruit the right leadership team. The quality of the team will set the limits of...
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Agency Free
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...
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E-books
A professional way of demonstrating learning – student or teacher – in a way that requires them to synthesize information, apply it in new ways, and reflect on how they have grown. It is a good learning...
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Activator
A good way of starting a lesson or project is to provide a hook to grab the students' attention and to engage them in the learning. I call this using an activator or motivator. Elsewhere you may see such...
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Faith
To what extent do you consider faith to be a source of knowledge? Does faith compliment or contradict reason? Although people often link faith and religion it is possible that faith is relevant to areas...