The importance of check-in activities Engaging students using check-in activities are really important because they help build relationships, which can be key to success in the classroom. It doesn’t matter what subject you teach, and it doesn’t matter what grade level your students are in; you want them to feel cared about, valued, and genuinely …
Chinese Compound Sentences 中文複句 To support students writing their academic reports, I compiled a list of writing strategies and sentence starters to help them write about their experience and cite evidence or use examples to explain further, 4 Report Writing Strategies & Sentence Starters. As I finished this, I felt that students who study Mandarin as …
Concerns in planning an MYP interdisciplinary unit Planning the MYP interdisciplinary teaching and learning can be tricky, especially working out the schedule, the collaboration between teachers, the delivery of lessons in different subjects, assessment design and evaluation, etc. In Lenny Dutton’s blog post, “The Problem with IDUs“, she identified timing and teacher fear are the …
Diversity, equity and inclusion through conversation roles How do you get the most out of your lessons? How do you promote student engagement in your class? How do we promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom by assigning conversation roles? I initially wrote this blog with students in mind and wanted to specify discussion …
How to write an MYP Personal Project Report? Do your students find it difficult and not motivated to write their MYP personal project report after completing their product? Do you sometimes feel students write an extended diary entry instead of an academic report that meets the IB assessment expectations? After making their product following the …
Conversation prompts for social emotional learning Whether online or in-person, one way for us to gain insights into students’ lives and get to know their personalities is to provide opportunities to share life experiences and creative thinking. Teachers are also doing their best and allocate time to check in with students at the beginning of …