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Making assessment criteria comprehensible to increase student agency

27/12/2021 / Assessment, MYP Criteria, Self-directed Learning / 1 Comment

Are our feedback comprehensible to students? Constructive and supportive feedback is an essential part of our personal growth. Feedback is only useful when receivers can understand the message and feel motivated to take actions to improve their performance. In my opinion, effective feedback should be an interactive process that involves “comprehensible input” in order for self-regulated learning …

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Develop student assessment literacy

28/12/2021 / Assessment, Self-directed Learning / 7 Comments

Formative feedback  It all started when I attended Kim Edwards’s session, Changing the narrative about student expectations, formative evaluation and feedback, at the IB Conference in Yokohama in 2017. I was very inspired by how the school (Presbyterian Ladies College) has translated Hattie’s research and taken actions to examine the process of giving and receiving …

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MYP and DP language acquisition alignment

27/12/2021 / Mandarin Ab Initio, MYP Criteria, Second Language Acquisition, Transitions / 10 Comments

What is the alignment between the MYP and DP language acquisition subject? New DP Language Acquisition Guide has been implemented since September 2018 for the first assessment in 2020. When there is a new DP guide being published, teachers often feel uncertain and wonder how they can best prepare their students for the exam. Schools …

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Assumptions and “Single Stories”

08/05/2018 / Uncategorized / 1 Comment

Why do we make assumptions?  This post is about an assumption exploration activity I did with our new teacher during the orientation week. There are three objectives of this teacher learning engagement.  Be aware of the “single stories” and uncover and question our assumptions of learning  Connect new teachers’ experience, skills and knowledge with KIS …

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