Advice & Tips for IB Teachers (120 total posts)

Creating Silence-Spaces in Schools

September 4, 2015
I just recently purchased good noise-cancelling headphones to block the roar of motors and the general noise whenever traveling on planes. The headphones are simply brilliant because, not only do they block in-coming noise so that the sound from on-board systems can...

Can that be real?

June 17, 2015
When reading a news post on the web, I often have occasion to ask myself “Can that be real?” or “Is this true?” and I’m often thinking about the image accompanying the post (as well as the post itself). “Can that be real?” can...

Listening paper recommendations

June 8, 2015
I hope everyone is well in the DP Music world. I have just started grading DP Music listening paper for the May 2015 session. I would like to share my thoughts in process while my experiences with the listening paper are fresh. Pragmatically, these recommendations...

Exploring Literature and Performance

June 3, 2015
Alas, poor Yorick……etc. Since the summer provides teachers at least some little time to think and reflect and also to explore, I wonder if you might look into the third course in Group 1 which is ‘Literature and Performance.’  This is has...

Listening paper review (two suggestions)

May 16, 2015
Greetings DP Music teachers! With less than one week to go for the DP Music exam in northern hemisphere schools, I hope you students are reviewing for all of their exams with intention and fidelity. This post concerns two different strategies for reviewing for the DP...

Paper 2: Some last admonitions for students?

May 1, 2015
1. I don’t believe it’s possible to stress explicitly enough that your students should go into the examination with a clear sense of which genre they studied (aren’t they all ‘books?’) and which of the ‘books’ they studied are...