How do we not kill students’ motivation and enthusiasm? When students returned from their summer holidays, they are usually excited to see their friends and meet teachers. They crave for social interaction and want to catch up with everyone. They want to get to know the teachers and their expectations. Students are so motivated, enthusiastic, …
MYP unit planning process It is very rarely for the teachers new to the MYP are not feeling overwhelmed when being introduced to the MYP unit planning process. The MYP unit planner provides a framework and help teachers to design a unit of work step by step following the inquiry cycle: inquiry, action, and reflection. …
Every year at my school, KIS International School, students in the IB Middle Years Programme are grouped across grade levels and participate in an event called Design Cycle Challenge (DCC). It lasts for a week and students have to follow the design cycle and apply knowledge and concepts from different academic subjects. I consider this …
Students in the final year of the MYP are required to do their personal projects. The aims of the MYP projects are to encourage and enable students to: participate in a sustained, self-directed inquiry within a global context generate creative new insights and develop deeper understandings through in-depth investigation demonstrate the skills, attitudes and knowledge …
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Objective C: Communicating in response to spoken and/or written and/or visual text Objective D: Using language in spoken and/or written form According to the MYP language acquisition guide (2014): Objective C: In the language acquisition classroom, students will have opportunities to develop their communication skills by interacting on a range of topics of personal, local and …
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What do students mean when they say “I understand.”? I often ask students “Do you understand the text?” and they usually answer with a “Yes.” However, when they are asked to explain by giving examples, it is usually challenging for some of them to articulate their thoughts or identify details from the text to support …