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IB Authorization & Evaluation
What is 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...
7 May 2024IB Authorization & Evaluation
Writing a Programme Development Plan (PDP)
This page provides guidance on how to write a programme development plan.What are you working on? All schools are working on improving aspects of their programme(s). For some this might be developing...
13 December 2023IB Programmes: PYP | MYP | DP | CP Free
An introduction to the IB Mission and how to align it to your school mission.The IB Learner Profile and how it applies to all people in your school community.How does the IB Learner Profile link to learning?How...
15 February 2024IB ATLs
How to create an ATL toolkit Free
An ATL toolkit serves two key functions: (a) it creates a consistent school culture around teaching and learning - by culture I mean it's our way of doing things; and (b) it provides staff with practical...
22 November 2023IB ATLs
IB Approaches to Teaching Free
"Educators need to think of themselves as designers of learning...We are convinced that we need to move rapidly to the place where all learners feel connected and all learners are able to self-regulate...
21 March 2021IB Authorization & Evaluation
What will we be asked on the evaluation visit?
"My school is a multi-programme school (PYP-MYP and DP). Currently we are preparing for our IB evaluation visit. What are questions that we should expect from the visit team to our teachers?"This page...
9 May 2024IB Authorization & Evaluation
IB Evaluation Crib Sheet
The page also includes some questions framed by the IB to explore a schools' alignment to the four elements of the PSP (Purpose | Environment | Culture | Learning).IB evaluation is based on your journey...
27 April 2023IB Authorization & Evaluation
Your IB evaluation guide for staff Free
This page contains a PowerPoint that you can use to introduce the IB evaluation process to all key stakeholders.Please refer to the pages linked below for specific details on the stages of evaluation....
11 May 2023IB ATLs Free
If the individual IB subject guides inform us about what to teach and learn the Approaches to Teaching and Learning Guide describes how to.This page is designed to help you understand the nature of the...
4 July 2023Teaching and Learning
Revision Strategies
As students start preparing for their exams what help are you giving them? Is your advice consistent across all subjects? Is it based on research evidence?I write this page as my daughter plans her revision...
26 February 2024IB ATLs
Establishing an ATL culture Free
The IB approaches to learning are central to delivering on the IB mission. If IB schools are committed to nurturing compassionate lifelong learners who have a passion to change the world for the better...
26 February 2024IB ATLs
How to engage staff with approaches to learning? Free
Whilst the IB approaches to teaching and learning are central to IB pedagogy they may not be foremost in the minds of colleagues who are more concerned about teaching their syllabus and preparing students...
3 June 2023IB Coordinators
A quick guide for the IB coordinator Free
Being an IB coordinator can feel like you are wearing so many hats at once, with so many different people to support. This website gathers expertise from around the IB world, providing you with practical...
22 January 2024Leadership
Your leadership: Where have my concepts of leadership come from? What or who has influenced my leadership? What will guide my approach to leadership? Writing your own Philosophy of Leadership statement....
31 March 2017Teaching and Learning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education
Artificial intelligence (AI), and specifically the products from the company Open AI – ChatGPT (free), GPT-4 (subscription based), and the image generator DALL-E – all have the potential to disrupt...
4 March 2024IB Authorization & Evaluation
A new Guide to evaluation (2020) informs all IB evaluations which take place from September 2021. Evaluations are grounded in the revised Programme standards and practices (2020).Schools who wish to become...
4 November 2022IB ATLs
Parent workshop: Approaches to Learning Free
How to introduce approaches to learning to teachers and parentsThis page is written as a presentation to introduce the importance of the IB approaches to learning to teachers and parents.
11 February 2024IB Authorization & Evaluation
How do we plan for programme evaluation?
This page walks you through how to prepare for the evaluation.Schools are evaluated every five years after authorization. Schools may request a change of date (e.g. to align the dates of different programmes)...
29 February 2024IB ATLs
Teaching is focused on conceptual understanding
Concepts are the "glue that holds our mental world together." (Murphy GL (2002,The big book of concepts, MIT Press.)“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.” (Albert Einstein)
22 November 2023IB Authorization & Evaluation
Evaluation: Self-study
The formal process of carrying out a self study can take up to a whole year. It is a significant piece of work which should involve all stakeholders within the school community. It is a great opportunity...
28 February 2024