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Develop ATL Skills Through The MYP Personal Project

22/01/2022 / MYP Personal Project, ATL Skills / 4 Comments

What is self-regulation?  According to Pintrich and Zusho (2002), self-regulated learning is an active constructive process whereby learners set goals for their learning and monitor, regulate, and control their cognition, motivation, and behaviour, guided and constrained by their goals and the contextual features of the environment. The MYP Personal Project provides a great opportunity for …

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Self-directed Personal Projects: Roles and Responsibilities

29/12/2021 / ATL Skills, MYP Personal Project, Self-directed Learning / 1 Comment

What is self-directed learning?  Through the feedback action research I conducted and my observation on how students have engaged with the online learning resulting from the pandemic, I have developed a growing interest in self-directed learning. Self-directed learning is particularly emphasized and implemented via the MYP Personal Project and Community Project. What is self-directed learning? …

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Avoid ‘Collaborative Overload’

15/04/2022 / Technology Integration / 1 Comment

O.R.E.O Online Teaching and Learning Tool Updated  In my previous post, “OREO Online Learning Guidelines“, I put together a list of tools our teachers have used to facilitate learning. I intentionally did not introduce any new toolS to avoid adding cognitive load in our initial implementation of asynchronous remote learning. Entering the second implementation of …

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What happens when projects are not graded?

29/05/2022 / ATL Skills, Inquiry, Self-directed Learning / 1 Comment

A reflection from IDEAS Project This is a reflection after our students completed their IDEAS Project in the last week of the school year. The IDEAS Project’s detailed information and rationale can be found in my previous post, Building the community through IDEAS.   I had a meeting with our school parent representatives and successfully got their …

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Creating A Caring and Inclusive Community: Differentiation

07/01/2025 / Second Language Acquisition, Differentiation / 2 Comments

Differentiated instructions  The idea of differentiation has been discussed and explored widely among schools and educators. It is an area of development for my school as recommended by our accreditation organizations. Before diving deeper into how we can provide differentiated instructions, it is worth mentioning some common misconceptions about differentiation observed by Carol Tomlinson and Marcia Imbeau …

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