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MYP Enhancement Guide: Empowering Educators with Practical Strategies

18/04/2025 / Assessment, Curriculum, MYP Unit Planning, PD, Transitions / 1 Comment

Introduction The MYP Enhancement Guide is a resource designed to help educators enhance the Middle Years Programme. This guide focuses on conceptual teaching, global contexts, ATL skills, and community engagement. The Enhanced MYP has introduced four key elements of change that aim to enhance teaching and learning practices, including Concepts & Conceptual Teaching, Global Contexts, …

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Parents’ Guide to Understanding the MYP Assessment – A One-Pager

03/11/2022 / Assessment / 1 Comment

Introduction To help parents understand MYP assessment principles and practices, I created an MYP Assessment Guidance Handbook. Nevertheless, explaining MYP assessment practices concisely and assisting parents to understand them without overwhelming them is challenging. In case the handbook’s information was too intense, my head of secondary suggested creating a one-page summary of key MYP assessment …

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Use an Assessment Roadmap to Reduce Students’ Anxiety and Promote Student Agency

18/09/2022 / Assessment, Self-directed Learning / Leave a Comment

Introduction Assessment can be challenging, particularly when it seems you’re never quite sure when it’s going to come around. By using an assessment roadmap, students are able to engage in goal setting. Knowing what they are expected to achieve by a certain date provides students with a sense of control that they may not otherwise …

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Learning Loss? Lost Learning?

28/02/2022 / Assessment, ATL Skills, Differentiation, Relationship Building, Self-directed Learning, Transitions / 1 Comment

Concerns about learning loss Unplanned school closure resulting from the Covid-19 has impacted student learning physically, emotionally, socially, and academically. Educators and school administrators express concerns about learning losses and gaps and lack of student engagement, motivation, and approaches to learning skills. The unprecedented sustained school closure periods have brought attention to ‘lost learning’. This …

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6 Report Writing Strategies and Sentence Starters for the MYP Personal Project

19/01/2025 / Assessment, ATL Skills, Differentiation, MYP Personal Project, Second Language Acquisition / Leave a Comment

Introduction Writing strategies and critical reflection are essential for mastering the art of report writing for the MYP Personal Project. This process can be a challenging task for students, as they must strike a balance between structure and creativity while ensuring clarity and alignment with IB requirements. Without proper guidance, reports often tend to resemble …

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Developing Self-regulating Learners through a Systematic Formative Feedback Process

27/12/2021 / Assessment, ATL Skills, MYP Criteria, Self-directed Learning / 14 Comments

Why did I conduct this action research? Professor Hattie’s research emphasizes the learners’ engagement with the feedback process and its role in developing assessment-capable learners who are able to regulate their own learning. Hattie notes that developing assessment capable students who know the learning intention for what is being taught can describe where they are …

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