I often think it is important for us, teachers, to remember that “good teaching is good teaching”. We can change our attitude to understand the MYP unit plan and gain a different perspective. Before interacting with the MYP unit planner, it is helpful to list what elements we normally take into consideration when designing a unit of work. We can observe that lots of the elements are clearly the same, such as identifying the content, creating student learning tasks, teaching students skills, designing assessment tasks and so on. By examining the MYP unit planner, it is also a good opportunity to discuss how the MYP planning process is the same and different from traditional unit planning. The MYP provides a framework work to keep us on track and teachers certainly should take our time to understanding the MYP unit planning, implementing and reflecting process.
In order to support teachers in understanding the MYP unit planning, implementing and reflecting process, I created some guiding questions to help us reflect on each key element along the way.
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Thank you so much for putting all of these resources into the world. I love your illustrations!
Thank you, Jana. I always feel that MYP is a very challenging framework, which could be daunting for teachers. There are so many guides and documents to read on top of teachers' busy daily schedules. Anything we can do to make it earlier but not simpler, we can help teachers grapple the important concepts and foundalmental philosophy, and most importantly, to reduce their 'affective filter'!
Best,
Alison