The future of the G4P (Group 4 Project)

June 26, 2014

This post is aimed at teachers who are about to start teaching the new course that will be taught starting this Autumn (examinations in 2016). The group 4 project is still around – this, in my opinion is good news (you may beg to differ!) However, with the changes to...

The New Guide (2)

May 5, 2014

By now I hope that you will have looked over and warmed to the new chemistry guide. The course has been modernized to reflect both chemistry in the 21st century and 21st century teaching. It is a really inspiring document and offers some new and exciting teaching...

The new course – what’s in and what’s out?

April 2, 2014

Hopefully by now you will have found and downloaded a copy of the new subject guide (for exams 2016) from the OCC. Have you read it? Looked over it? Glanced at it? Or are you letting it gather dust, afraid to peek inside at its contents? After all, chemistry is...

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]....

Planning for and helping with the extended essay (EE)

January 6, 2014

When do you do your extended essay (EE)? It is probably out of your control and a whole school issue but that said, do spend some time planning ahead for it. Most schools seem to launch the EE sometime in the third term of IB. There are two reasons for this, firstly,...