WEB 2.0 My Sites and development

This is the top end of a link to my various sites

Theory of Knowledge

History

University & Careers Diploma Year etc

Diploma Programme

The development and raising of awareness of Sociocratic methods of organisation will be part of my agenda for this coming academic year. Examples to draw upon this method of organisation are within the DP teachers Leadership team, Advisory team, vertical articulation groups in DP and the working groups within my TOK and History classes.

To read more about Sociocracy as a democratic method for organisation check out this link http://sociocracy.co.uk/

Extended Essay in History

Results are back regarding the recent EE in History grades and it is clear that criticl analysis and source evaluation are crucial once again. The Dp2014 students produced 3 high B´s and 1 excellent A. The difference was regarding critical analysis and the holisitc grade. This is worth 4 points and to an extent has an element of subjectivity about it. the critical analysis requires joind up thinking and rigorous debate within the essay.

University and Careers

Check out my ongoing development of University and Careers information on my google site
https://sites.google.com/site/mrmunglespastoral/ I´ll be updating this over the course of the next academic year, and developing contacts with other IB Counsellors and of course our ex students at their Uni placements.

More to come!!!

The new TOK curriculum

The new TOK curriculum

So far I have developed a coherent new programme for the new TOK orders. This is outlined on my TOK site here TOK new orders course outline

21st Century Classroom

January:

This weekend I´ve learnt a lot of new tricks regarding the Google suite of applications. I think one of the best things i´ve learnt this weekend is how to use scripts within google spreadsheets. There appear to be so many scripts available which really transform the use of google drive.

I also attended Betts where I met with a number of proactive teachers and learners, some of the most impressive were with regards to the development if ideas behind flipping the classroom. I´ve been developing many of these ideas independently but it was fascinating to see so many different techniques and ideas, which I´ll be incorportating into my teaching practice. Check out my flipped online learning at Learning about the causes of the spanish civil war

Targets for next academic year will be

1. To take more teachers and students to BETTS in January 2015
2. Follow up on my inservice day in March to SIS teachers on Blended Learning My Presentation on blended learning
3. Development of more DP leader initiative in training (mac book programme) started in April 2014


ideas from BETT 2014