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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 Assessment Roadmap

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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PP Report Writing Sentence Starters

4 Report Writing Strategies & Sentence Starters

15/01/2022 / Assessment, ATL Skills, Differentiation, MYP Personal Project, Second Language Acquisition / Leave a Comment

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 …

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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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Critical Reflection through Prompt Questions

Reflective Writing Guide

14/01/2022 / Assessment, ATL Skills, Self-directed Learning / 2 Comments

This post is writing to introduce a reflection protocol: What? So What? Now what? to promote student reflection and critical thinking. Critical Self-reflection How do we guide students to reflect critically? I have been researching this question and hope to increase high-level thinking of my students. I have observed that my students’ reflections were superficial …

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