Differentiation
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AI Tools for Inclusion & Multilingual Learners
Some AI tools have potential to save teachers a lot of time in supporting their learners, through making content more accessible and working across languages. Some affordances of new AI tools in the multilingual classroom can include: Here is a… Continue reading
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Making Feedback Visible: Four Levels in Action
Five years ago I was starting to become concerned with the difference between marking and feedback. What was making a difference to my students’ learning and was the effort I was putting into detailed marking worth it in terms of… Continue reading
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What If..? MyIB & MOOC PD
At a recent MYP Coordinators’ network meeting we were discussing how – despite lots of moves towards quality control and great efforts by the IBEN team – we still had occasional concerns on the reliability of the received message from… Continue reading
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Bold Moves for Schools
This is a quick-and-dirty review of a book that ticks all the boxes for a curriculum nerd like me: Bold Moves for Schools, by Heidi Hayes Jacobs & Marie Alcock, from the ASCD (2017, 207 pages). It’s a practical and comprehensive, yet… Continue reading
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Webb’s DOK4 & Transfer
I recently took part in a fabulous Bold Moves Curriculum Mapping Bootcamp, by Dr. Marie Alcock at ISKL. I was there to think about next steps for curriculum planning at CA, and it was a great opportunity to pick the… Continue reading
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“This will revolutionize education.”
Note (2018): If my inbox (edumarketing fluff) or the internet (hyperbole) are anything to go by, this video is still as relevant as when Derek posted it 4 years ago. Not a lot more recent, but still memerific, here’s another… Continue reading
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Growth Mindsets in Differentiation & Feedback
A short review/summary of Carol Dweck’s Mindset. Continue reading
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The Gradebook I Want
How can we develop a system that effectively combines standards-based grading practices with a balance between tracking MYP objectives and content-level standards in parallel? Continue reading
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Making Feedback Visible: Four Levels Experiment
Attempting to give feedback based on the four domains: task-level, process-level, self-regulation and self, in a complex MYP Sciences lab investigation. Continue reading
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First Unit Reflections: Is It Working?
Summary of student feedback on the unit & teaching. Continue reading
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You Can’t Differentiate Mediocrity.
Reflections on differentiation workshops. 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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How much should homework count?
I saw this on Twitter via @Mr_Abud, and it got me thinking: What is the role of homework in my class? Years ago I read Alfie Kohn’s (@AlfieKohn) Homework Myth and adjusted my practices (I think) accordingly. This tweet from… Continue reading
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Differentiation through a ‘Readiness Filter’?
Carrying on from my last reflection on the differentiation workshops here this week… Some subjects have a great freedom of curriculum and are natural fits for student-driven inquiry all the way through to MYP 5 (and beyond if they exist… Continue reading
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Differentiating… differently.
Long time no post! The school year is well underway and a ton of topics are on my mind, but things have been chugging along busily. Without the MA assignment to procrastinate, there’s been a little less motivation to blog,… Continue reading
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