Wayfinder Learning Lab – Stephen Taylor

Category: MYP: Mind the Gap

  • The Buoyant Force of Continuum Learning

    If you’re new to this blog – welcome! Ideas on here often build on previous posts or conversations, so I hope this make sense. To find out more, please visit my about page, with posts by topic. ……….o0O0o………. As I work on curriculum development across the subjects, I reflect on how easy it is for…

  • Defining Inquiry (again)

    Some more recent posts: “Is this an Inquiry with an “I” or an enquiry with an ‘e’?” Wayfinding: Curriculum as a Compass?  Content & Inquiry in a Google World? How NOT to be ignorant about the world: inquiry & the fact-based worldview “Let’s all meet up in the year 2000” on Factfulness and globally-minded inquiry…

  • MYP: Mind the Gap [MA Assignment]

    The circle closes with this assignment, from IBAP conference in 2013 to the submission of the assignment in 2014. From here it’s onwards and updwards with the Research Methods unit and the dissertation, building (hopefully) on my Web Chart of the International Dimension.  Building on ideas from my IBAP Regional Conference breakout session in 2013,…

  • Is “every experience a moving force” in our curriculum?

    As I struggle through writer’s block (after a very intense couple of months of work and more), trying to organise and finish off this ULL assignment, I find myself pulled back into the literature, thinking about the quotes of educationalists past and present. Recent reading about Dewey and Vygostky has been stimulating, as I realise…

  • Defining Inquiry: “Critical Reflective Thinking”

    A quick abridged post to isolate Bente Elkjaer’s definition of inquiry as “Critical reflective thinking.”

  • Give a Student a Fish…

    “Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he’ll feed his family for a lifetime.” Anne Ritchie, 1885 (maybe) This short post, again related to Understanding Learners and Learning, Visible Learning and MYP: Mind the Gap, revolves around my (admittedly flawed) memory of an old aid…

  • “Learning is about living, and as such is lifelong.” Defining Learning

    Over the past couple of months (well, in those stolen moments), I have been reading up on Understanding Learners and Learning for my current Bath MA International Education unit. Where at first I was dubious about the value of going over ‘the old stuff from my PGCE year’, I have found it once again to…

  • Hattie & Yates: Visible Learning & the Science of How We Learn

    This brief review of John Hattie and Gregory Yates’ Visible Learning & the Science of How we Learn (#HattieVLSL) is written from the multiple perspectives of a science teacher, IB MYP Coordinator and MA student. I have read both Visible Learning and Visible Learning for Teachers, and regularly refer to the learning impacts in my professional…

  • MYP Mind the Gap: Tensions in Transition from MYP to DP

    A summary of my first conference presentation, which I really enjoyed.