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The ToK Exhibition - practical stuff
Here is an ongoing collection of pages on the practical matters to do with the ToK Exhibition, both to do with the guidance you can give students but also to do with the administrative procedures. Teachers...
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Cultivating Exhibition skills
Here is a collection of pages devoted to cultivating skills needed to perform well in the Exhibition. These include the analytical task of linking objects to the prompt, as well as constructing a good...
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Sample 1-item exhibitions
In this section you will find examples of 1-item exhibitions that you can choose to share with the students for analysis or when they are learning to write an exhibition in response to the specific fake...
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Exhibition activities
This page proposes activities that can be added to lessons or assigned as homework. The aim of the activities is to practice the skills necessary for writing exhibitions. It will be updated as the site...
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Exhibitions and comments
Here is an ongoing collection of student exhibitions and accompanying comments. They can be used within the ToK department for training purposes but they can also be shown to students. Each exhibition...
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Understanding the Exhibition Assessment Instrument
As with the essay, the exhibition is marked using global impression marking. Nonetheless, certain distinct strands can be identified in the assessment instrument. These are discussed here. Not every strand...
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TOK Exhibition: writing the commentary
When the student has chosen the objects and sketched the links to the prompt, it is time to write the commentary that identifies the objects, their knowledge contexts, and how they link to the prompt...
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Exhibition Tips 1: Overview of the Exhibition
This is the first in a series of videos focused on the ToK Exhibition. In it we survey the Exhibition task. What is the Exhibition about and what do students have to do? At first glance, the Exhibition...
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Assessing the ToK Exhibition
These pages deal specifically with assessing the ToK Exhibition. There is a page that unpacks the assessment instrument. There is also an ongoing collection of Exhibitions with accompanying commentaries...
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Prompts for the ToK exhibition
Choosing a prompt is equally important as choosing the objects. There are prompts that are more popular than others but that does not mean that students do well in writing in response to them. This chapter...