PRE IB: How to become a successful IB student

June 11, 2017

What does it take to become a successful IB student? First of all, you must be both open-minded and genuinely interested in ‘learning’. By ‘learning’, I do not mean learning information, parrot fashion, with the sole intention of regurgitating it, word for word, on...

PRE IB: Getting ahead in IB Geography

This blog was written by experienced Geographer Garrett Nagle.  You can read more student and teacher blogs by Garrett here. The new Geography syllabus, which will be taught from September 2017 and examined for the first time in May 2019 begins with a quote from an IB...

PRE IB: Studying, Reading, and Rereading… A Study Method for History

This blog was written by David M. Smith – Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School History is a challenging subject to study.  On the one hand, you need to master several skills like essay writing and source analysis.  To use these skills, however, you need to...

PRE IB: What to Expect in IB History

This blog was written by David M. Smith – Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School What is in store for you as you embark on one or two years of IB History? Let’s look at some of the features of this course to give you a better idea what you have signed on for....

PRE IB: ATL… Helping with the Climb

This blog was written by David M. Smith – Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School In the previous post we looked at how Bloom’s Taxonomy can be applied to the IB History Course.  Now let’s look at how IB helps with you climb up “Mount Bloom.”  In IB we call...

PRE IB: What to Expect in IB History – The Structure

This blog was written by David M. Smith – Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School You will be studying IB History at either the Higher Level (HL), a two-year course, or at the Standard Level (SL) which can be either one or two years.  While every teacher...