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This is the second lesson in the IB Core class series, which you can find here.

This lesson includes the following six activities which give students and undertanding of the basics of the International Baccalaureate.

• A gap fill activity on the International Baccalaureate Mission Statement.
• A 10 question quiz on the history and modern day state of the International Baccalaureate.
• A sorting activity where students have to put extracurricular activities into the MYP, DP or both. Students must then reflect on the service activities they have done and would like to do.
• A response to a variety of comments where students have to decide if they are ‘good’ IB comments or not, giving reasons.
• An IB Learner Profile activity where students have to unmuddle each Learner Profile attribute word and then give examples of when they have used each one.
• An Approaches to Learning Activity where students have to put 10 subsections into the correct Approach and then give examples of when they have done each one.

The lesson is designed to last for two fifty-minute periods.

I hope you find it useful.

Best wishes,

Olly

I have just started teaching IB Core from year 7 so will upload every lesson (1 per week).

You can find the introduction lesson here.

In this lesson students watch a video from the IB, respond to the IB Mission Statement, look at and analyse IB philosophy from the MYP Programme model, consider how they have used the Approaches to Learning Skills and set Approaches to Learning targets, which you can find here.

I have added two new resources: Approaches to Learning Target Setting documents are for MYP and DP students.

Each document includes a separate page for each Approach to Learning skill (communication, research, self-management, social and thinking).

For each ATL skill, I have chosen eight subsections taken from Principles into Practice for the MYP and the International Baccalaureate’s ATL website for the DP.

Students have to choose one subsection to focus on as a target. They then have to consider strategies that will enable them to meet their target. At the end of the time period (I usually give half a term), students must revisit their targets and write a reflection on the extent to which they feel they have met them.

I have, at times, got students to set one target for each of the Approaches to Learning skills, and at other times, got the class to focus on one agreed Approach to Learning skill to focus on for the half term.

The target setting handouts are cross curricular so can be used for any subject. As Coordinator, I used them in my IB Core class.

In order to help students link the IB Learner Profile to their learning, I have created an IB Learner Profile Passport. You can find it here.

This activity is designed to be a plenary activity for the last 5 minutes of class. 
The handout is designed to get students to think, pair, and share how they have either shown one or more of the IB Learner Profile Attributes in the class, or to reflect on how they could make an improvement on one or more for next time.

I have also added a sentence starter for ‘this week’ to give students the chance to consider how they have shown one or more of the attributes outside of the classroom (linking the IB to the real world!). 

Apologies for not uploading in a while. I have been writing a comprehensive report on the DP Evaluation Self-Study. You can find Standard C: Curriculum here.

I have written 36,700 words explaining my practice of Diploma Programme Coordinator in the first three years of my school’s self study cycle. My report mentions numerous pieces of evidence–many of which are on the website. I will add links to the resources over the next couple of weeks, as well as adding the ones I have not yet done so.

I will add parts A and B very soon.

Best wishes,

Olly