Why mock exams are useful

April 21, 2014

A week  from Friday, the IB exams begin; while Lieutenant Kilgore might “love the smell of Napalm in the morning” what IB teacher does not love the sound of the word ‘invigilate’?  For those of us not in British-based systems, it is a...

Teachers live in media, too

April 20, 2014

A few weeks ago I wrote a post for students about using Twitter.  I urge you to read it, and then continue on with this new post. “Quick catch up, or background info: “Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to...

Getting your IA (Internal Assessment) ready

March 2, 2014

If you are a May session school, it’s that time of year again. You have been teaching your current IB 2 class for 18 months or so and have had lots of ups and downs (more up than down I hope!) Syllabus material has been covered and in this respect you are beginning to...

The New Subject Guide

February 1, 2014

Well, after a couple of years of waiting and speculation the new subject guide has been finally released for first examinations in May 2016. If you have not yet got a copy, you may get one from the OCC [at the time of writing this was still the pre-publication guide]....

summary of Changes to DP Biology

January 17, 2014

In Sept 2014 IBO diploma centres will begin teaching the new, revised Group 4 syllabi. I thought it would be useful to discuss some of the changes and will post 4 brief summarising blogs. Much of what I write is consistent across all three disciplines. Though the...

My most useful web tool

December 30, 2013

The most prevalent, and overwhelmingly useful tool I use on the Internet is not a website, not email, not shared documents or photos or videos or music, but a “behind the scenes” bit of code: RSS feeds. First, what is RSS? RSS – Really Simple...