Recording audience response

November 4, 2015

Last week I was training teachers in London, and I wanted to run a session on how to physically reflect on a performance. I had been working with students the week before on Laban routes and creating a solo piece based on a single line, so I thought I would transfer...

Technology Rich and Innovative Poor

October 21, 2015

Cleaning off my desktop this morning, I found this pdf from Alan November, that I’ve been meaning to write about on this blog. The original post from November Learning is at this link.   Written in January 2015, “Clearing the Confusion between Technology...

What will they understand 20 years from now?

October 2, 2015

This morning my Flipboard reading brought me this news commentary: Do You Really Understand Why Water Boils? New Survey Says, Probably Not.  by Nadia Drake.  Ms. Drake writes about the newest Pew Research Center Science Knowledge Survey, asking some very pertinent...

Changes in IB History – the New Prescribed Subjects

September 25, 2015

The transition from one curriculum to the next happens every seven years, and despite all preparation, it is always a challenging year: there are two sets of syllabi and two sets of assessments. The most dramatic content-based changes come in the Prescribed Subjects. ...

Paper 1: The Source-based test

September 21, 2015

In IB History, at both HL and SL, students are required to demonstrate their ability to use historical sources.  There are a number of historical skills that are used by professionals instantaneously and often on a daily basis.  Every time you pick up a text, read a...

CALP

September 16, 2015

I would like to draw your attention to a page found within the TSM that I believe to be relatively new,  Cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP). This focuses on language proficiency, specifically a conceptual framework of language proficiency as devised by Dr...