Approaches
I was going to make a new section called "unit planners" but unit planners are just a way to help organise the course, encouraging teachers to think about approaches to teaching and learning. Before making a unit planner one needs to be able to classify activities in terms of the different teaching / learning objectives. In constructing the plan it might become obvious that some of the objectives are missing in which case new resources need to be developed or found. To do all of this one needs to have an understanding of the approaches to teaching and learning (ATLs) as specified by the IB. You can find all the information on the OCC but this isn't specific to physics. What I will attempt to do here is to layout what this means to me as an IB Diploma physics teacher giving examples of how some of our old tricks still fit the bill and some new tricks to expand our repertoire. After full consideration of the ATLs I will then construct my unit planners for the year based on the resources available on the site.
So the section will be called "approaches". I got this idea from David Ripley whose English B site has a very good section on ATLs. If your English department has a subscription ask them for a look. David also supplied the art work for the blog post.