What is multimodal teaching? What is multimodal teaching? Multimodal teaching refers to instruction or learning materials consisting of multiple modes to deliver content and assess student learning. When multiple modes are used together, they can result in a more effective learning experience. Although multimodal teaching is a requirement in the MYP language acquisition subject, students …
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 …
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 …
Differentiated instructions The idea of differentiation has been discussed and explored widely among schools and educators. It is an area of development for my school as recommended by our accreditation organizations. Before diving deeper into how we can provide differentiated instructions, it is worth mentioning some common misconceptions about differentiation observed by Carol Tomlinson and Marcia Imbeau …
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What do we mean by saying ‘Discussion’? Reading The Big List of Class Discussion Strategies written by Jennifer Gonzalez, I find myself in agreement with her statements as described below: “We will discuss actually meant the teacher would do most of the talking.” “…ultimately just a conversation between the teacher and a handful of extroverted students.” …
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Learning by sharing I received an email from a language acquisition teacher a few days ago. She inquired about the possibility to exchange unit planners. She is the only language acquisition teacher at school and doesn’t have anyone to build language acquisition unit plans collectively. What a great idea! Language acquisition teachers are sometimes the …