Self-directed Learning

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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Build the community through IDEAS

23/12/2021 / ATL Skills, Online Learning, Self-directed Learning, Service Learning / 3 Comments

How do we end the school year during the closure? I worked collaboratively with our MYP teachers and initiated IDEAS Project and Fair last academic school year at KIS International School (Bangkok, Thailand). IDEAS represents Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship, Activity, Service. The concept is also a continuum extending to the Creative, Activity, Service (CAS) component in the Diploma Programme.  …

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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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GRASPS Assessment Design and Student Metacognition

27/12/2021 / Assessment, MYP Criteria, Self-directed Learning / 3 Comments

The WHY of GRASPS assessment design GRASPS is a model advocated for by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe to guide teachers in designing authentic performance-based assessment. It’s a form of assessment that engages learners to employ their thinking skills and demonstrate application of essential knowledge, conceptual understanding, and skills acquired throughout a unit of learning. 

Sanity-Saving Feedback Strategies

27/12/2021 / Assessment, Self-directed Learning / Leave a Comment

Feedback Principles Since we launched the Formative and Feedback Project at KIS in 2017, we received positive responses from teachers, students, and parents. Teachers and students have not only become more intentional about summative and formative assessment design but also enhanced their understanding of the assessment criteria. Students are involved in setting their own learning goals and …

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