Approaches To Learning (2)

August 3, 2016

Last month’s post was focused on Approaches to Teaching and Learning (ATL) with the focus being on the teaching side of things – makes sense doesn’t it? – It applies to us teachers. However, this month I thought I’d throw that logic out of the window and focus on the...

How do YOU do it?

July 27, 2016

Approaches to Teaching, ATL or whatever you call it! – love it or hate it you can’t ignore it. All teachers of the IB programme (whether you teach PYP, MYP, DP or the Career Related Programme) are now expected to teach in accordance with the IB’s ideas on Approaches...

The New Extended Essay

June 24, 2016

Were you aware that a new EE guide was out? It has been live for around three months and is for first examinations May 2018, so that will be students whom you start to teach this coming August / September. Now that things have got quieter with IB teaching (IB2...

The Halogens and the Sea

June 17, 2016

There are a few references to lab work in this post – I do need to stress that any labs you carry out need to be under the supervision of one of your teachers (and risk assessed by the teacher) and carried out in school. I have always been fascinated by the link with...

Review of the Chemistry course

May 27, 2016

So, if you are in a Northern Hemisphere school or a May Examination school then you will have (literally) finished your course. I guess the first question was how it? Did it go as you thought it would when you picked up that subject guide a couple of years ago? Or, as...

Revision Ideas For Your Chemistry Class

April 11, 2016

It is getting to that time of year. With only weeks to go, it is time to start thinking of revision. Hopefully, by now you will have finished the course (or literally be there) and about to starting to revise. So, how do you do this? I’m hoping this post will give you...