Roles and responsibilities for the MYP Personal Project I am very passionate about the MYP personal project as it gives students full ownership of their learning. This is a PROCESS in which students are guided to expand their potentials and encouraged to follow their natural curiosity making their project. They have free choice of topic, …
This diagram was inspired by the blog post, The agile learner in a VUCA world, written by @alohalavina. VUCA is an acronym used to describe volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Put simply, we live in a fast-changing world and in such unfamiliar environment, we face unpredictable changes, often are required to make decisions in complex systems, and to take …
Develop a fact-based worldview Factfullness by Hans Rosling is my first summer reading. Lots of good review have been shared and Bill Gages is also giving free copies to all colleague graduates this year. I was curious about how this book can help me discover my ignorance and perhaps changed the way I interpreted data. Hans …
EPIC goal setting I was taking a video online course conducted by @tonyvincent in July. The topic of the week was how to narrate effectively and we were asked to create a narrated slideshow by using Adobe Spark. I have been working with MYP grade 10 students closely in the past few years to support their personal …
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Why do we make assumptions? This post is about an assumption exploration activity I did with our new teacher during the orientation week. There are three objectives of this teacher learning engagement. Be aware of the “single stories” and uncover and question our assumptions of learning Connect new teachers’ experience, skills and knowledge with KIS …
MYP unit planning process It is very rarely for the teachers new to the MYP are not feeling overwhelmed when being introduced to the MYP unit planning process. The MYP unit planner provides a framework and help teachers to design a unit of work step by step following the inquiry cycle: inquiry, action, and reflection. …