Language A Portfolio

CLOSE TEXTUAL ANALYSIS IN PRACTICE Well, here I have posted my analysis of five key IB documents. Based upon questions posed in a Professional Development workshop on Language A: Language and Literature. IB mission statement “The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.  To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.  These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.” What ideological biases exist in the IB mission statement and how do you know this as a reader? IB mission statement is both a political and technical instrument. It could be cl...

Approaches to teaching From most important to least important 1. Teaching based on inquiry  - In my opinion, inquiring is the foundation for all the other teaching processes. The first step we have to do is to create some kind of learnin need, learning desire, and this is only possible if the students start their learning processes by questioning why do they have to learn what they are studying, this is the foundation for the contextualization of knowledge. Contextualization will help transform this knowledge in practical abilities in order to participate in social practices. Hence, connecting local and global issues may be easier, assessment will make much more sense and collaboration will be promoted for inquiring learning also leads to question how we learn. 2. Teaching focused on conceptual understanding.  Inquiring teaching must develop into the conceptual understanding of what is being studied and the connection between these concepts and the development of abilities. ...

Browse through the blog pages which are listed on the top right corner of the page.