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 (see the Guide to school authorization: Diploma Programme and Programme standards and practices).
- Design student engagements for interactions with the syllabus concepts and content.
- Articulate the assessment requirements for their subject.
- 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 their school to facilitate the transfer of professional development.
- Participate in professional learning communities within and beyond their school to facilitate the transfer of professional development.
