Have you got time? Have you been in the situation that you would like to show a film to enhance students’ understanding of specific content or a topic, but there is not enough time to do that at school? Are you sometimes looking for a film to show students in the last few days before […]
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Why reflection? One of the goals for teaching is to help students transfer their learning and be able to apply their knowledge, concepts and skills in new contexts. We make an effort to implement a concept-based curriculum and hope this approach will help learners connect knowledge and develop understanding through different learning experiences. However, it
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Process portfolio This is a follow-up writing to my “Student Learning Portfolio” post. At my current school, MYP students create their learning portfolio using Google Site. The practice of allocating time and guiding students to build their learning portfolio is inconsistent and the quality of students’ reflections varies. In order to promote the use of learning portfolio,
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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,
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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
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