I am very pleased to be teaching ToK (Theory of Knowledge) again next term, albeit as part of a 6th form enrichment programme rather than as a fully fledged IBDP ToK course... Here is an idea for the 5 lesson …
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Paris : Friday 13th November 2015. How can we know what to feel? A ToK stimulus by any other name…
A couple of hours ago I read a tweet from a twitter-colleague Emma Kell (@thosethatcan). It read "When there was unprecedented horror in France in January, I was full of energised response for my students. This time, I’m all out …
Awakening revision window
13 IB have created a window revision sheet - I love it. Chapter XII and XIII of Chopin's Awakening. A fortuitous day in Slough... awakening window Read More "Awakening revision window"
Creativity in Analysis: Why I love teaching Y13 IB
I have copied some of my Year 13 IB English Literature creative responses to Chapter 10 of Chopin's Awakening. I left out only the pencil drawings that were too faint to copy well. These are to enable the class to …
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Why waste a teaching opportunity? The language of cheating.
Although Year 13 TOK presentations are approaching, it is never too late for a little stimulus. I thought I would channel my frustration at being labelled a "cheating" English Teacher in some current media stories into an idea for presentations. …
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TOK stimulus for presentation: The language of Government.
The TOK of the Government proclamation: • Ofsted chief: ‘teachers don't know what stress is' • "The examination system that we have has got to be ruthless and stretching all pupils," • has said he intends to ditch the term …
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A response to “Prizes for all” and improvement…
Y13 TOKKISTS: read and respond - there's a presentation in here - see what you can find. Earlier this month, David Cameron announced that it was time to increase competitiveness in school sports and to get rid of a prize …
ON OFQUAL – where has the morality gone?
It is hard when you feel that a great injustice has been done to those who, as a teacher, you sign on to help and develop to the best of their potential. Today, OFQUAL, in a good impression of Pontius …
TOK and the Games…
I have been considering angles from which the last cohort of SGS TOKKISTS might approach the Olympic Games in their presentations... Remember, the idea is to take a real life event and consider it objectively from a range of "Ways …
Is there TOK in the torch?
A friend of mine is quite exercised by the fact that the original idea for a torch relay belonged to Adolf Hitler. He is tweeting about this and, as I watched it arrive in my home town this morning, I …
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