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Jackson  Kanyingi- Teacher for PHE MYP-Aga Khan Academy-Mombasa

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Thank you for such a wonderful and informative presentation, Lenny! :)
EB

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I`m Aida and I teach English Language Acquisition to G7-10 students.
I`m also an MYP EAL Coordinator in our school.

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EAL Coordinator, Mumbai, India

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vilma-fernandes-8126a874/

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I've recently started using https://www.mentimeter.com/
It's an online presentation tool that offers various features such as word clouds, multiple choice questions, open-ended questions, scales, Q&A etc. I use it for warm-ups in class, reflection, feedback, exit tickets etc.
EB

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MYP Coordinator, Hamburg, Germany

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Hello! I am Pooja Soni.
MYP Language Acquisition Teacher at Fountainhead School, India.

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English Teacher, Social Science Coordinator (Grades 3-5) at Indus Valley World School, Kolkata, India

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www.colombobritanico.edu.co
MYP Coord

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Thank you for an amazing session! It was very informative and helpful.
Aida

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MYPC Jamnabai Narsee International School
Mumbai
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonal-chabria-b19400138/

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I reflect, therefore I exist as a teacher

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I reflect, therefore I exist as a teacher

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...for those of us who prefer being students rather than teachers :) :)
Thank you, Ms. Dutton for this inspirational talk!
EK

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Sita Suwalka
Team Leader MYP Language Acquisition and Educator
Surat, India

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Humanities Teacher Coach Aga Khan Academies.
(Thank you for a wonderful presentation and all the resources)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-haque-0a09967b/

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I am a Physical and Health education Teacher in Mumbai, India.

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MYP PHE in Telangana, India

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MYP I&S in Jakarta, Indonesia

https://twitter.com/Pauline_Ang

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauline-ang/

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English Language Aquisition
MYPC
Hiroshima, Japan

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Saba Husain - MYP Coordinator, Math Educator

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Saba Husain - MYP Coordinator, Math Educator

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Ian lacariatre
Design teacher, Mauritius

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Subha De
Visual arts educator

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I`m a perfectionist and I try my best! ;)

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Chaahat Dhall - MYP Integrated Humanities team leader @ Fountainhead School, India

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Chaahat Dhall - MYP Integrated Humanities team leader @ Fountainhead School, India

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LinkedIn:- Chaahat Dhall.
Twitter:- @chaahat117
Instagram:- @chaahat11

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Bharat Suhagiya - Year 3 Integrated Humanities Curriculum Planning Leader and Educator. 

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Bharat Suhagiya - Year 3 Integrated Humanities Curriculum Planning Leader and Educator. 

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Language and Literature
MYP coordinator

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Hi there, I teach Individuals & Societies in the MYP. Happy to learn & connect. Now exploring Concept Based Inquiry teaching. Trying to learn & grow everyday!

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Don’t miss what’s happening

People on Twitter are the first to know.

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Hi, I am Abenaa
MYP Coordinator
Language and Literature/Individuals and Societies
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Hi all. I am Pushpa, MYP math educator

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Great podcast - Jason chats with teachers about their practice - not just in MYP Design, but other STEAM and EdTech aspects too.

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Podcast for Design, STEM/STEAM educators. I interview a wide range of excellent guests in Design and STEAM Education to get their unique perspectives. I use my 20+ years of experience as a Design Educator to dig deep into complex issues. This podcast has one simple mission. To create a community of people around the world that are interested in Design and STEAM Education.

[Connect with me @ http://www.jasonreagin.ga & https://linktr.ee/wjreagin] Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/design-cast-podcast/support

Podcast for Design, STEM/STEAM educators. I interview a wide range of excellent guests in Design and STEAM Education to get their unique perspectives. I use my 20+ years of experience as a Design Educator to dig deep into complex issues. This podcast has one simple mission. To create a community of people around the world that are interested in Design and STEAM Education.

[Connect with me @ http://www.jasonreagin.ga & https://linktr.ee/wjreagin] Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/design-cast-podcast/support

More than a design podcast

Jason has put together a model for education podcasts by focusing on pedagogy and practices that work. While he centers on IB related design curriculum, his expertise goes far beyond that mission. Listen to his episodes on making your voice heard beyond the classroom and you'll see what I mean. I look forward to more from him and please use his contact info to reach out and support his work with your own expertise.

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‎Podcast for Design, STEM/STEAM educators. I interview a wide range of excellent guests in Design and STEAM Education to get their unique perspectives. I use my 20+ years of experience as a Design Educator to dig deep into complex issues. This podcast has one simple mission. To create a community of...

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ow come no one here likes Hanson?!!" I wrote, heartbroken and bewildered, in my schoolgirl diary, about my beloved boy band. At my old school - a small, religious one - all the cool girls spent their lunch breaks deciphering the lyrics of MMMBop, or arguing over which brother was the cutest. There, somehow, I was cool. Here, at my new school - larger and more suburban - I was not. This was made clear to me on the very first day, when I taped up a picture in my locker of Hanson, and the girl next to me laughed at me, mercilessly and loudly. Another misstep; another reason to cringe at myself. Not a pleasant feeling by any means, but at least it was one I was used to.

Is it possible to cure yourself of this feeling? Or could there be a good reason why some of us are prone to cringing?

Most of us went through an awkward stage, and I am no exception. But I had a somewhat unique experience growing up in that my family moved every two years or so, which meant the second I got the hang of cool at one school, we'd leave for another town, and usually another state. Awkward moments inevitably ensued every time I had to play the new kid, and I quickly learned that what is acceptable at one school will be roundly mocked at another. You could love Hanson in Nashville in 1998, but in Chicago you'd better learn to like the Backstreet Boys. You could wear Clueless-style kneesocks in southern Louisiana in the early 2000s, but in northern California you'd be side-eyed for clinging to a passé trend. Every kid is hyper-aware of social rules, but learning different ones over and over again as I grew up made me even more sensitive to moments that deviate from the norm. And, perhaps, more prone to causing them.

So this is how my obsession with this odd, overlooked little emotion began. A few years back I decided that if I was going to spend my life cringing at everything (mostly myself), I might as well try to understand the feeling a bit better. Is it possible to cure yourself of this feeling? Or could there be a good reason why some of us are more prone to cringing? What, in other words, is the point of this feeling?

I didn't get the answer I was expecting. But the answer I did get was so much more interesting.

'The moments that make us cringe are when we are yanked out of our own perspective': Melissa Dahl. Illustration: Gemma Correll/Observer

Nearly 50 years ago the American anthropologist Edmund Carpenter set off to Papua New Guinea to study the Biami tribe, a group of people which, he believed, had never seen mirrors, and certainly never cameras. Beyond that, the rivers near their home didn't provide clear enough reflections for a proper Narcissus moment. Which meant, Carpenter reasoned, that they had never really seen themselves clearly. This trip he made in 1969 would change all that; he brought with him mirrors and Polaroid cameras and video cameras and tape recorders, and a single-minded intention to record the Biami's every response to this exercise in forced self-awareness.

According to Carpenter's report, when the Biami people saw their entire selves reflected back to them in a mirror for the first time, they expressed what the anthropologist termed a "tribal terror of self-awareness". That is to say, they freaked. The "tribesmen responded alike to these experiences: they ducked their heads and covered their mouths," he reported. "They were paralysed; after their first startled response... they stood transfixed, staring at their images, only their stomach muscles betraying great tension." To review: they ducked their heads, covered their mouths and tensed up their stomach muscles. I think in modern parlance, we would call that cringing.

Carpenter's report, though it was written half a century ago, helped form what I have started to call Cringe Theory. The moments that make us cringe are when we are yanked out of our own perspective, and we can suddenly see ourselves from somebody else's point of view. Often in these moments we are reminded that there can be a stark difference between the way that you see you and the way that others see you; the distance between is something the Emory University psychologist Philippe Rochat calls "the irreconcilable gap".

Some psychologists who study embarrassment call this feeling the distinction between the lived and the corporeal selves

The term is still fairly new to me, but the feeling is not. Think of the things we call cringeworthy - or, here, I can think of a few for you. Realising you were walking the wrong way and having to about-face, causing everyone on the street to realise you were walking the wrong way. Assuming the cashier at the sandwich shop asked for your name because he thought you were cute, gently telling him that you've got a boyfriend, then understanding he just needed your name for the sandwich. Waving hello to someone who was definitely waving to a person behind you. Saying goodbye to someone, only to discover that you're both walking in the same direction. Accidentally liking an old photo on someone's social media feed, revealing yourself to be a creepy stalker.

It's a deep-seated human fear, one Rochat believes begins to take hold when we are about two years old. Some psychologists who study embarrassment call this feeling the distinction between the lived and the corporeal selves: the former is in your head, whereas the latter is out there in the real world. You can pretend that these two selves are one and the same, until some kind of awkward mishap occurs and yanks you out of that fantasy. Then the me walking around out there does not always do such a good job of living up to the standards of the me that exists in my imagination.

Looking at yourself through someone else's eyes can make you feel silly and unsophisticated in the moment. But I've come to believe that you have to look, if you want to turn your incapacitating self-consciousness into something more manageable. Something like self-acceptance.

"How come no one here likes Hanson?!!" I exclaim, weakly. Twenty years after I wrote these words, I'm reading them aloud at Littlefield, a performance venue in Brooklyn, to three people I only met this morning. "I've been looking at pictures of them on the internet almost all day today and they're so cute! How could anyone not like them?"

'I'm grateful now for this odd little emotion, because now I know what it's for': Melissa Dahl. Photograph: Gemma Correll/The Observer

The three strangers are producers for the New York City branch of , a live show in which performers read from their teenage diaries. Onstage. In front of hundreds of people. I think I've had a version of that nightmare before, but in it I was only physically naked, not emotionally so. I'm auditioning for a spot in an upcoming show, and as I read them the 7 March 1998 entry, I cringe harder with every word. "What am I gonna do? I have to call long-distance if I want to talk about Hanson!"

I'm intrigued by this show. Most of us build our lives so that we experience as little embarrassment as possible, yet in Mortified there is a group of weirdos who intentionally seek out the feeling, who come together to revel in it for a three-hour performance each month. When I land a spot in the show, and I tell friends and colleagues that I'll be reading my teenage diary on stage in a couple of months, almost everyone responds with variations on the same question: "Why?" For a long time, I didn't have an answer for them, other than a vague "for research".

Much later, though, I figured out why I was drawn to this show. If cringing comes from a shock of self-consciousness, then I think those of us who cringe more than others might have at least a moderate version of social anxiety, a disorder defined as the fear of being judged in social situations. And at least one psychologist argues that the best way to overcome your fear of cringing at yourself is to purposely put yourself in situations that make you feel as if you may die of cringe.

Stefan Hofmann is a psychologist at Boston University's renowned Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders. There, he runs what is essentially exposure therapy for social anxiety. He works with patients to figure out what they fear the most. Do they fear getting laughed at? OK. Do they fear looking dumb? Noted. Then, he designs exercises that will purposely put them in those situations. He's had patients march into a book store and ask a clerk: "Excuse me, do you have any books about farting?" He's had others ask a cashier at a pharmacist: "Excuse me, do these condoms come in a smaller size?" Once, he had a woman stand on a street corner and sing all three verses of Mary Had a Little Lamb as strangers passed by.

The idea is not to make others laugh at his patients. The idea is to get them to be able to laugh at themselves. It's a principle I start to apply to my own life as I attempted to cure myself of this feeling that has driven me crazy for as long as I can remember. I set myself a series of challenges, some more ridiculous than others. I strike up two conversations with strangers on the subway in New York: to one guy waiting to board the train with a bike, I say, "Is it ever hard to find room on the train when you have your bike?" He mumbles something inaudible in response, and I wonder now if he thought I was passive-aggressively telling him how annoying it is when people get on the train with their bikes. Maybe I subconsciously was.

I try an app that is described as "like Tinder, but for female friendship", and meet up with two strange women for a drink. We size each other up as potential new friends. Then after a reshuffle at work I realise that I don't know who my boss is any more, which is a ridiculous thing to have to admit; normally, I would have just waited for context clues to figure it out, but in the spirit of Hofmann's exposure therapy, I march into my former boss's office to ask directly: "So, are you still my boss?" (He was not. Good thing I asked.) The weirdest part of the entire weird experiment is that I loved it. By the end, I felt invincible.

Most of us build our lives so that we experience as little embarrassment as possible

And yet, I wouldn't say that I'm cured of cringing. Instead, I'm grateful now for this odd little emotion, because now I know what it's for. If these moments help us see ourselves from someone else's point of view, then overly self-conscious people like myself should be grateful for them; in an instant, we're freed from our own narrow perspective of ourselves. Seeing yourself through someone else's eyes reminds you that there is more than one way to see the world, and there's also more than one way to see yourself.

I've come to think of cringe as a necessary reminder of the sheer absurdity of being human. If you can learn to appreciate this feeling - if you can learn to laugh at it, and at yourself - you'll find more joy in your life. I hope I never stop cringing at myself. So far, so good.

Cringeworthy: How to Make the Most of Uncomfortable Situations: an extract

'About 10 steps into our jog, I ran straight into a lamppost...': Melissa Dahl. Photograph: Celeste Sloman

A few years ago I met my early-bird friend Marie for a 6.00am run. I don't think I have whatever biological traits it takes to make a morning person, but sometimes I like to act like one, a pretension that backfired spectacularly that day. About 10 steps into our jog, I ran straight into a lamppost.

I know. And no, I don't know how it happened either. It hurt like hell, as you might imagine. My right thigh somehow took the brunt of the impact, and when I got home I found an angry purple bruise already taking shape. In the moment, though, I laughed through the searing pain and kept running. "I'm fine," I remember lying to Marie. "No, really, I am. I would tell you."

No, I wouldn't have told her and I bet you wouldn't have either. It's a small example of the show we're all putting on for one another. Recall sociologist Erving Goffman's idea that social life is a stage. By acting like I was fine that day on the East River path with Marie, I was inviting her over to my side of the gap as in the 'irreconcilable gap,' first identified by Emory University psychologist Philippe Rochat, between the way that you see you and the way that others see you.

We were just going to go ahead and pretend this moment of astounding clumsiness never happened. With every little performance like this, we build hastily constructed bridges over the irreconcilable gap.

Not only are we trying to present ourselves in a certain way, but we're also simultaneously trying to interpret the impression others are trying to make on us. What was that look supposed to mean? And what was that tone about? We obsess over these little cues in part because we're trying to figure out what they say about us and in part to monitor whether this person is buying the image we're trying to project. This is often difficult work because of that gap between self-perception and other-perception.

"Trying to bring these two things together is an infinite quest," Rochat told me. "We are like Don Quixote fighting windmills trying to reconcile that." Goffman, author of the 1956 seminal work, The Presentation of Self, called this the "information game". On the one hand, there are the little things we do on purpose to guide someone over to our side of the gap. Your clothes, for instance, like the hat you carefully tilt just so or the shirt left deliberately half tucked in. You can use things like text messages in this way, too. You might override your smartphone's autocorrect to keep your laid- back lowercase aesthetic. But then there are the signals we're accidentally sending about ourselves, nonverbals like our body language, facial expressions, or tone of voice.

To successfully navigate around awkwardness, you have to buy the scene I'm creating and treat me accordingly, and I have to do the same for you. It's like the cardinal rule of improv: Yes, and. Actors in improvisational theater agree to accept the reality their partners present and to respond in kind. If one person starts a scene by pretending to be a school bus driver, only a clueless showboat would jump in and say something like: "No, this is a rocket ship. And you're an alien. And we're headed to the moon!"

Likewise, if I say I'm fine even though you just watched me run headlong into a lamppost, you'll go along with the story I'm telling if you don't want things to get weird. Awkwardness is the feeling we get when someone's presentation of themselves - either our own or someone else's - is shown to be incompatible with reality in a way that can't be smoothed over with a little white lie.
Cringeworthy: How to Make the Most of Uncomfortable Situations by Melissa Dahl go to observer.co.uk. The book is published by Bantam Press on 15 May at £16.99. To order it for £14.44, go to guardianbookshop.com

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ow come no one here likes Hanson?!!" I wrote, heartbroken and bewildered, in my schoolgirl diary, about my beloved boy band. At my old school - a small, religious one - all the cool girls spent their lunch breaks deciphering the lyrics of MMMBop, or arguing over which brother was the cutest.

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What should I start/stop/keep doing

Feedback Sandwich

Pineapple Charts

Examining Assessments

Feedback Principles

+Feedback Practice
+ATL: Giving & Receiving Feedback
+More protocols here and here

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What did they like/dislike or find easy/difficult about the content?

What activities did they like?

What questions do they still have?

How would they change the unit?

What did they care about most in the unit?

Sharing with colleagues who aren't teaching the same units as you:

Teach the same subject, but not the same class/grade

Teach a different subject of the same grade

Teach a completely different grade (for example, use a PYP colleague to give feedback on an MYP unit)

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Imposter syndrome

Fixed Mindset

Being afraid to let go! Perfectionism!

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Take this test by Pauline Rose Clance, the psychologist behind imposter syndrome, to see if you have any imposter characteristics or experiences. If you find that you do, then know you're not alone. Take a look at this video of women sharing their experiences of overcoming imposter syndrome in their careers.

Check out this TED Talk by imposter syndrome expert Valerie Young for helpful tips on how to overcome it.

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What is imposter syndrome and how can you combat it? - Elizabeth Cox

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Even after writing eleven books and winning several awards, Maya Angelou couldn't escape the doubt that she hadn't earned her accomplishments. This feeling of fraudulence is extremely common. Why can't so many of us shake feelings that our ideas and skills aren't worthy of others' attention?

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Is this unit worth teaching?

Will my students remember this unit, 5, 10, 20 years in the future?

Does this unit support our students in developing as IB Learners?

Does this unit encourage critical thinking?

Does this unit allow for students to take action?

Does this unit allow for student choice/agency?

Can you learn from this unit?

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Unofficial workshops/webinars, led by IB teachers, for IB teachers!

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IB Educators Chat is an unofficial resource, run by IB educators around the world.

This first started with three MYP Zoom meetings, to discuss how our schools were adapting during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

These first meetings had participants from India, Jordan, Poland, Norway, Germany, India, Indonesia, Dubai, Lebanon, China, USA, Hong Kong, Italy, Belgium, Egypt, Paris, The Netherlands, Australia, UK, Sweden, Thailand, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan, Costa Rica, Singapore, Spain, Malaysia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago and South Korea!

Our first chats were general, but moving forward we would like to have more zoom meetings, for teachers of specific subjects, or for different topics, such as assessment or the Personal Project.

If you want to host a Zoom or Google Meet, click the button to find out more.

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IB Educators Chat is an unofficial resource, run by IB educators around the world. This first started with three MYP Zoom meetings, to discuss how our schools were adapting during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

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Weekly slow chats on Twitter!

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Tweets by MYPChat

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Hello! I'm Lenny Dutton. MYP Coordinator at the International of Stuttgart (currently on maternity leave).

You can find me here:
https://www.excitededucator.com/

https://twitter.com/LennyDutton

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennydutton/