You can also find them in the PRC

Please add here any questions, ideas, suggestions

Post your answer as a comment to this post and then discuss with your group how the MYP is designed to be effective for learning and teaching in a constantly evolving world.

What new ideas EXTEND or push your thinking in new directions? 

What CHALLENGES your thinking? What leaves you confused? What questions do you have now?

Which specific concepts are you required to teach, either from the IB curriculum or your own teaching context?

What pedagogical strategies are you using to promote conceptual understanding?

Once you are done, please go to the sandbox and add a slide with your answers.

This resource is for your independent unit planning process.

Square: What one pedagogical strategy squared easily with your current practices?

Circle: What one question is still circling around in your mind about the pedagogical strategies?

Share ideas and identify common ones.

Collaborate on a common definition of global contexts

Share examples of how to embed the GC in the unit of inquiry.

Discuss. Changes in your thinking and questions

Name a speaker to share your findings.

• SELECT the approaches to learning skill(s) that best fit the unit described.

• Describe how you might TEACH the relevant skill.

• Identify a task for students to self-REFLECT on their skills development.

• Consider how you would DOCUMENT your selected skills development.

• Share with the larger group.

Context: American Racial Oppression

Concepts: Hip-hop, Comparisons with other genres of music (protests) (Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke)

Skills: Drum beats, DAWs, Rapping, Sampling.

Does the content offer

• Personal relevance

• Power of big ideas

• Universal reach

• Unique moral dilemmas

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Each group will select a speaker to share their findings with the group.

Thank you so much!!

• Concept mapping

• Using concepts to generate inquiry questions

• Student-generated concepts

• Compare and contrast

• Case studies

• Debates and classroom discussions

• Simulations, modelling and demonstrations

• Connecting concepts to other disciplines

• Organizing concepts

If you were developing an IDU (Inter disciplinary Unit), what strategies for conceptual understanding would you use, how and why.

• Appreciate: Name one thing you appreciate in your groups work.

• Clarify: Ask questions where the unit plan feels unclear.

• Consider: Provide recommendations for your everyone to consider.