Teaching
Teachers work together to articulate the curriculum in a horizontal and vertical manner as well as to standardise assessment.
What is teacher collaboration?
Students acknowledge the intellectual property of others and otherwise submit work that is their own.
What is academic integrity?
The way that units are planned by creating the assessents first so that then learning opportunities teach students the content and skills that will be necessary for success on those assessments.
What is backward mapping?
The concept that a student develops about themselves that evolves throughout their lives coupled with the way that their societal norms frame that evolution.
A view of learning that is always framed in a global way.
What is international mindedness?
Teachers consider learning variability when creating learning experiences.
What is differentiation?
Within the IB context students must take what they have learned and do something with it. It is not enough for them to learn for the sake of learning.
What is Action?
Four different ways that we can assess student learning?
What are (four of) presentations, posterboards, essays, lab reports, exams, quizzes, assignment, creation of a graphic, performance, etc.
The rules that govern IB world schools as of 2020.
What are the new IB standards and practices?
The acronym for the British Columbia Association of International Baccalaureate World Schools.
What is BCAIBWS?
The acronym for best practice in teaching in the IB programme.
What is ATT?
The character traits that the IB wishes to develop in young people.
What is the Learner Profile?
The fuel of learning provided by teachers and peers when examining student work that enables students to improve.
What is feedback?
Someone on staff who skipped the pandemic.
Who is Rick?
Something that the MYP coordinator cannot stop prattling on about.
What are the Approaches to Learning?
Students take ownership of their own learning to pursue something of personal interest.
What is inquiry?
Students work together with other students to further everybody's learning. (A high tide raises all boats!)
What is student collaboration?
Assessment is marked collaboratively by teachers to ensure fairness and common expectations of students.
What is standardisation?
What is constructivism?
An ATL subskill within self-management that the DP coordinator is particularly adept at employing.
What is organisation?
Teachers construct learning opportunities that focus on big ideas around which learning is scaffolded and built.
What is conceptual understanding?
The opportunity for students to speak and be heard within the school community.
What is student voice?
Accommodations or adaptations are made to assessments in order to ensure fairness for students on IEPs or SSPs.
What is inclusion?
Her office is next to one of the coordinators and she has a good answer for almost anything.
Who is Olivia?
Big international ideas that work across national boundaries and that frame teaching and learning within the IB programme.
What are global contexts?