In a recent post, Self Assessment: Empowering Students in their own learning Ted Wilson of Bali Island school discusses the importance and benefits of students self assessing their work. He was very kind to link to me. In the event anyone does click on the link on that site, here are my thoughts and practices […]
Category Archives: Approaches to Teaching
By nature, I am a reflective person, and this fits well with the IB learner profile attribute. Developing in my students the reflective ATL skills is a priority for me. As a result, I think about often the lessons that I have learned throughout my life. I remember having a conversation with Craig Boyce in […]
A few years back I polled some top school administrators for a resource on their favourite interview questions. Here are the results. Special thanks to Karen O’Connell, John McBryde and Paul Sebastian. What interests you about the job and why are you interested in working at (school name). Please share with us some of your […]
Authenticity I had a great experience working with this fantastic group of educators in Hong Kong at IB regionals, February 23-26 2019. Prior to the workshop the title of my workshop, “creating authentic units” sparked interest and many asked me so what is an authentic unit anyway? I would respond, I don’t know but I’ll figure […]