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  Now that the new school year is well underway, you may have started some IA reports. I intend this blog post to give you some tips and ideas that will hopefully help you to...

“Do you think [the encouragement to teach WOK within AOK] means it just won’t work to have the WOK taught separately at all?”  This question was posed by teacher and blogger Larry Ferlazzo as he...

As we enter October many of you may be feeling a bit of anxiety about your essay-writing skills.  If you are a first year History student, you are wondering about how much higher the expectations...

I always think its worth while to reflect on the requirements of a successful write up for internal assessment. Its easy to develop a fixed mindset that the write up is an artifical construct that...

Most obviously we somehow know that doing good is good for the recipients or partners in service. Intuitively, we also know that doing good is also good for the ‘actor’ or the ‘doer’. Now a...

Last week I read an obituary for Christopher Koch the author of The Year of Living Dangerously. Koch’s novel was one of my favorite and frequently used reference books when I was teaching Indonesian history...

A crucial aspect of supervising and advising students about IB assessment is ensuring that the key aspects of assessment are fully understood by teachers and their significance communicated to students. Whether assessment is external or...

It is about this time of year that I normally focus on some vacation-related issue. In the past, I have examined all inclusive holidays and virtual tour guides. In this post, I would like to...

Greetings DP Music teachers! Today I would like to present a teaching idea as well as a brief reflection on the importance of unit planning prior to lesson planning. I will be exploring how two...

Those of us who have been engaged in the on-going evolution of hardware, applications and online services have observed the continuing convergence of various components: mobile computing, cloud computing, social platforms, big data and analytics,...

What is social bookmarking? A social bookmarking is the act of using an online service to add, edit, annotate and share bookmarks that have been tagged for webpages and web documents. The actual technique for...

First Aid for Writing: Band-aid Verbs All of us who have to produce critical writing about literature, as you do in your three written assessments, tend to fall into dull and repetitious use of verbs....