The examiners report (2)

December 3, 2013

Do you read the examiner’s report? Do you know where to find it? Do you know what it is? The examiner’s report is an extremely useful document. Reading it and acting upon it are paramount to ensuring good examination results. The report can be found on the OCC...

Get it right – DCP tips

Octobers blog post focused on getting Design labs right so I thought it would be worth staying with the theme of IA labs and giving some tips / hep on DCP. There are two ways in which your teacher will give you an IA lab: (1)  They may ask you to first design a lab...

The examiner’s report – tips for the teacher from the chief examiner

November 2, 2013

Are you aware that the May 2013 examiners reports are now released? You are able to get these from the OCC (online curriculum centre) – occ.ibo.org. The examiner’s report is a really useful document and if you only read one official IB document this year – make it...

Internal Assessment – some good ideas for labs

October 3, 2013

  My last blog post focussed on putting together a scheme of work – and I am sure that future blog posts will expand on this but I thought it was worth giving some ideas on Design labs.   A good design lab will allow your students to design a whole range or...

Putting together a scheme of work

September 1, 2013

Now that the long holiday is drawing to an end it is time to start thinking of work again 🙁 If you are new to the IB, or an experienced teacher, I hope the following post will give you some ideas about the teaching of the IB diploma and allow you to plan ahead and...

IA – The Moderation Process

August 1, 2013

My last blog posting focussed on how Paper 2 and Paper 3 are marked online using Scoris. Now that the results have been out for a few weeks, the theme of this post is to explain how lab work or Internal Assessment (IA) material is moderated. The current method of...