Approaches to Teaching 1
The school monitors and evaluates inquiry-based teaching strategies and learning engagements
What is Approaches to Teaching 1.2
Teachers demonstrate strategies focused on conceptual understanding.
What is Approaches to Teaching 2.1?
Teachers ensure that there are clear examples of connections to local and global contexts in the curriculum.
What is Approaches to Teaching 3.1
Students collaborate with teacher and peers to plan, demonstrate, and assess their own learning.
What is Approaches to Teaching 4.2
Teachers integrate prior knowledge into the curriculum to aid and extend learning for all students.
What is Approaches to Teaching 5.2
Teachers encourage student choice in appropriate places in the curriculum
What is Approaches to Teaching 1.4
Teachers are planning and facilitating lessons in which students can grasp ideas, concepts and skills in transferable ways. This helps students to take what they have learned in the classroom and apply it to multiple domains.
What is the definition of Approaches to Teaching 2.2?
What is Approaches to Teaching 3.2
What is Approaches to Teaching 3.2 Teachers encourage students to transfer their conceptual understandings to unfamiliar contexts
The school provides opportunities for students to collaborate based on their strengths and abilities.
What is Approaches to Teaching 4.3
Teachers use multiple technologies to aid and extend learning and teaching.
What is Approaches to Teaching 5.5
At Alturas International Academy teachers use inquiry based learning by: observational field trips, science experiments, field expert volunteers, and research projects. These opportunities all encourage students to explore higher order thinking and use questioning techniques to discover an answer.
What is an example of Approaches to Teaching 1.1
In Unit of Inquiry, teachers introduce a students central idea and lines of inquiry. Then teachers facilitate a class discussion that deepens students understanding of this particular unit. This can be done by working together through class collaboration through KWL charts, literature studies, web quests and partner collaboration.
What is an example of Approaches to Teaching 2.1?
What practice is this an example of: In ELA teachers guide discussions on the story’s purpose, characters, main ideas, and setting. Teachers are also asking questions about the vocabulary, which allows the students build definitions from past experiences and link them together to create connections to the current lesson.
What is Approaches to Teaching 3.2
Teachers collaborate to ensure a holistic and coherent learning experience for students in accordance with programme documentation.
What is Approaches to Teaching 4.1
Teachers use IB-mandated policies to support students.
What is Approaches to Teaching 5.3
This is an example of what practice: Teachers encourage students to further investigate their interests and ideas.
What is Approaches to Teaching 5.1
Teachers are engaging students through lessons, projects, and discussions to develop their own conceptual understanding of the key concepts and skills of the lessons being taught.
What is the definition of Approaches to Teaching 2.3?
What is the definition of Approaches to Teaching 3.1
What is teachers ensure that there are clear examples of connections to local and global contexts in the curriculum
Students are continually in small groups at the student’s instructional level and students are partnered with another student at their same instructional level or in a leader/learner partnership.
What is an example of Approaches to Teaching 4.3
Teachers support language development with consideration for the language profiles of students.
What is Approaches to Teaching 5.4
Overall definition to Approaches to Teaching 1
What is teachers use inquiry, action and reflection to develop natural curiosity in students
Overall definition to Approaches to Teaching 2
Teachers focus on conceptual understanding to support students in developing their ideas.
Overall definition to Approaches to Teaching 3
What is teachers use local and global contexts to establish the relevance of the curriculum
Overall definition of Approaches to Teaching 4
Teachers promote effective relationships and purposeful collaboration to create a positive and dynamic learning community.
Overall definition of Approaches to Teaching 5
What is teachers remove barriers to learning to enable every student to develop, pursue and achieve challenging personal learning goals.