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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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
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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.
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Every year at my school, KIS International School, students in the IB Middle Years Programme are grouped across grade levels and participate in an event called Design Cycle Challenge (DCC). It lasts for a week and students have to follow the design cycle and apply knowledge and concepts from different academic subjects. I consider this
Students in the final year of the MYP are required to do their personal projects. The aims of the MYP projects are to encourage and enable students to: participate in a sustained, self-directed inquiry within a global context generate creative new insights and develop deeper understandings through in-depth investigation demonstrate the skills, attitudes and knowledge
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