RECOMMENDED FOR: Diploma Programme (DP) subject-group teachers new to the DP at established IB World Schools and teachers from interested or candidate schools preparing for authorization. Educators should enroll in a category 1 workshop in their particular subject area.
These workshops are designed to prepare participants to teach a specific DP subject in a manner that supports the IB mission statement and philosophy. The workshop will enable participants to:
- develop a deep understanding of the IB organization: its history, mission statement, learner profile, IB continuum and the international dimension
- consider the impact of the centrality of the IB learner profile and approaches to teaching and learning in the DP and CP models
- consider how the course makes links with theory of knowledge (TOK) and creativity, activity, service (CAS) and takes the CP context into consideration
- explore the nature of the extended essay and the role of the supervisor, to include reference to world studies interdisciplinary extended essay
- develop an understanding of student and teacher approaches to inquiry in the DP/CP classroom
- design course outlines that align with curriculum requirements, aims and assessment objectives of the subject, IB terminology and the relevant standards
- design student engagements for interactions with the syllabus concepts and content
- articulate the assessment requirements
- create formative assessment tasks that will equip students with the required factual, procedural and conceptual knowledge that support the summative assessment task(s)
- use assessment criteria to make judgments about student achievement (criterion-related, best fit)
- interact with and explore the TSM and subject-specific teaching and learning resources on the programme resource centre and in the programme communities throughout the curriculum life cycle
- select and analyse suitable resources that support teaching and learning in an IB classroom • promote the importance of academic integrity
- participate in professional learning communities within and beyond your school to facilitate the transfer of professional development
