The IBDP Japan Meet | Preparing students for IBDP exam success by Toddle

kripa5 — 2024-02-28 11:27:45 UTC

Collaboration strategies for teachers aimed supporting students across the Diploma Programme curriculum.

Ideas for Staff Collaboration Meetings

kripa5 — 2024-02-28 11:28:33 UTC

Here are some ideas for Staff meetings covering exam questions, command terms, language, and backward planning. The activities are designed to get staff collaborating in, and across departments. Teachers can create common strategies to help students.

Approaches to Learning Passport

kripa5 — 2024-02-28 11:28:55 UTC

These sentence starters can be used as lesson starters and plenaries in order to get students to consider how they apply the ATLs to their DP subjects.

Intervention Strategies for Borderline Students

kripa5 — 2024-02-28 11:29:10 UTC

This presentation is designed to get staff thinking about how and when to intervene with borderline students. It contains tasks for a staff meeitng.

Cross Curricular Planning

2024-03-03 10:48:17 UTC

This document allows you to direct staff to where the Approaches to Teaching and Learning are occuring each month, enabling them to connect on issues such as how to improve implementation.

Teacher Trios

2024-03-03 10:52:30 UTC

This initiative allows teachers to coach each other in trios. This gives the opportunity to collaborate on teaching and learning related to the DP Exams.

Department and Cross Curricular Peer Observations

2024-03-03 10:54:42 UTC

This initiative allows teachers to observe colleagues in their department or across the DP on all issues related to the DP exams, providing the opportunity to share knowledge and pick up new skills.

Learning Walks

2024-03-03 10:58:13 UTC

Learning Walks, which can be linked to all areas of teaching and learning, can have a DP exam preparation focus.

Professional Learning Communities: Action Research.

2024-03-03 11:07:06 UTC

Action Research can be focused on issues related to DP Exam preparation such as student wellbeing and the ipact of homework.

Supervising the Extended Essay

2024-03-03 11:49:14 UTC

This is a step-by-step guide to help teacher supervisors in the role. Time can be given in IB Core for this.

EE Subject Specific Information.

2024-03-03 11:51:03 UTC

This guide supports students in navigating the IB's EE website, ensuring they meet the demands of each subject's essay.

EE: Formulating a Research Question

2024-03-03 12:19:32 UTC

This document gives step by step guidance to students to support them in creating their research question, which can be the most difficult part of the process for some.

EE: Self-Assessment Checklist.

2024-03-03 12:22:16 UTC

This EE checklist allows students to evaluate their progress against the assessment criteria, guiding them on what they need to do to reach the highest grades.

Planning the TOK Essay (old guide)

2024-03-03 12:29:11 UTC

This document breaks down the structure of the TOK essay, giving students advice from the IB on each part.

Preparing for the Presentation (old guide)

2024-03-03 12:30:32 UTC

This document gives students advice on each part of the essay, linking it to the rubric.

Teacher Views on the TOK essay (old guide)

2024-03-03 12:32:04 UTC

It works well to get your IB teachers to respond to the TOK essay, with their ideas being shared with the students, encouraging communication.

TOK Presentation YouTube Video (old guide)

2024-03-03 12:42:29 UTC

It is a good idea to make a video for students, which they can then rewatch at their own pace.

Command Terms Glossary.

2024-03-03 12:50:44 UTC

The Command Terms Glossary can be adapted to the DP subjects your school offers. It can be used to support students as they attempt past-paper exam questions.

Command Terms Quiz

2024-03-03 13:17:51 UTC

This quiz can be adapted for each student based on what they are studying. It works well as a collaboration activity.

Student Surveys

2024-03-03 13:25:42 UTC

Here is an example of a Student Survey on Self-Management.

Revision Strategies

2024-03-03 13:47:31 UTC

This booklet gives a step by step guide of how to create revision documents through 11 different strategies. It also shows the outcomes. There is a YouTube link of me going through each strategy.

Research Outcomes

2024-03-03 13:49:51 UTC

This document gives an example of seven ways to record research from a text.

IB Survival Pack

2024-03-03 14:21:47 UTC

This document is full of advice and links to help students prepare for the DP exams.

Homework

2024-03-03 14:23:01 UTC

This document gives advice to staff on homework. It works well to go through the issues in staff meetings.