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A Web Chart of the International Dimension of a School [MA Assignment]
5,000 words on “How international is your school?” Proposing a web-chart for visualising and measuring the international dimension. Continue reading
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You Can’t Differentiate Mediocrity.
Reflections on differentiation workshops. Continue reading
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Moving in One Direction: Finding Ourselves with an ATLAS Curriculum Map.
This week Tony (@bellew, Curriculum, IBDP & PD Coordinator) and I gave a presentation to MS-HS faculty during our Wednesday PD time on “Why we map with ATLAS Rubicon.” Here it is. ……….o0O0o……… I’m willing to bet that if you’re… Continue reading
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Pocahontas & International-Mindedness
“You think the only people who are people, are people who look and think like you.” Continue reading
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How “international” is your school?
An attempt to use a radar chart to visualise the elements of the international dimension in schools. Continue reading
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A five-star post about Assessment
Here are a couple of short, funny* videos that could be used for informal discussion prompts on assessment. If you have more, please post them in the comments below. Mr. D on grading tests Is the assessment we design and… Continue reading
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What is an international education?
I’m taking this week to be locked away at the University of Bath, working on my current unit ‘Education in an International Context‘ as part of the MA in International Education. I’ll probably write a couple of blog posts as… Continue reading
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“You teachers have it easy.”
The summer has just begun. The students have left campus, I’m procrastinating cleaning up the lab… and we’re back to it again in two months. If you’re a teacher, you’ll know someone who hates that fact enough to remind you… Continue reading
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A School Year of #MYPChat
Early in this school year we took a lead from #PYPChat and started up #MYPChat: an informal discussion on topics of interest in and around the MYP. Over the last ten chats we’ve had interesting discussions on concept-based learning, visible… Continue reading
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Using Student Learning Data to (try to) Improve Student Data Processing: A Department Goal
This year saw the start of a school-wide push to become more data-driven in our decision-making and evaluation. As a result, one of our goals as teachers at the start of the year was the Student Learning Goal, a target… Continue reading
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An MYP Coordinator’s Bookshelf
A collection of books that are useful to the MYP Coordinator. Continue reading
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“Curriculum Development IS Professional Development”
As the year winds down, it is time to reflect and plan for next year. The summer will bring family time, trips and MA study before we get back into it all in August. I had a good ‘coaching’ session… Continue reading
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Exploring Environments: Student-Designed Units & Hapara
Originally posted on i-Biology: Click here for a summary of our recent student-designed Grade 10 (MYP5) Environmental Sciences unit that we planned for students to design and implement. I used this project as my trial for Hapara, a GoogleDocs dashboard system. … Continue reading
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What are we really learning from practical work?
Originally posted on i-Biology: As we study science, a lot of our time and resources are devoted to implementing an engaging practical scheme of work. Are we really making the most educational use of this time, these resources and the… Continue reading
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Using personal GoogleSites for learning, assessment & feedback in #IBBio
This is reposted from my i-Biology.net blog. To comment, please go there. ……….o0O0o………. Over the last two years, My IB Bio class have been keeping individual GoogleSites as records and reflections of their learning. Based on this experience and their… Continue reading
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