Social and Emotional Skills in Academics
By Kevin Hawkins Mainstream schools, for historical reasons as well as somewhat self-serving societal demands, traditionally focus on cultivating a very limited range of skills and competencies in their students. But if we want to support the growth and maturation of balanced young people in…
Exploring Space in the Classroom
By Camilla Cook I was once locked in a room with a class of thirteen year olds for over two hours. This disturbing situation occurred because Alissa had worked out that she could steal the door handle, leap out of the room, and slam the…
Service Learning and Communication Skills
By John Cannings “No problem about contacting….I do that all the time with my friends” One of the great goals of any high school service-learning programme is that by the end of the programme students can take responsibility for planning and initiating a project. That…
21st Century Skills and Tracker Apps
By Maxine Driscoll 21st Century Skills For almost two decades educators, politicians, business leaders and parents have been talking about 21st century skills and what schools must do to prepare our children for their future. While the International Baccalaureate, IB, has been doing something about it…
ATL Resource Guide
Over the last few weeks since releasing our first product, Skill Tracker, we’ve been fortunate to receive some excellent feedback – a lot of it product related. However, interestingly, we’ve also heard through our intelligence gathering, that teachers, MYP coordinators and schools are hungry for…
The Tempered Learner (on self-regulation)
By Stephen Taylor Originally posted at The Wayfinder Learning Lab Twitter: @sjtylr Going all the way back to my “MYP: Mind The Gap” session at IBAP 2013, I’ve been thinking about defining effective self-directed inquiry, the role of the MYP in “preparing” kids for DP, the approaches to learning and (more recently)…
ATL’s and Entrepreneurship
Pick up any book or read any blog about entrepreneurship and starting your own company and you’ll generally find two distinct sides to the process. The first is the thrill of bringing an idea into reality, setting your own schedule, being your own boss and…
Making skills visible
A couple of months ago, at my school, we had the opportunity to participate in the Beta testing of the ATL tracker app with MYP year 5 students. The reflection in this blogpost seeks to analyze some of the challenges we have come across when…
Teaching Creativity
Teaching the skills for creativity My name is Dede Brown and I am a freelance, interdisciplinary artist living and working in The Bahamas. After completing my Bachelor’s Degree in 2006, I returned to my hometown of Nassau on New Providence Island and did what every…
The Mindfulness Connection in the Classroom
By Daun Yorke One of the things I love the most about my job as a principal is getting into classrooms and observing teaching and learning happening. One thing I know for sure is that the quality of interactions between teacher and students has a…