This PDF gives you clarity on how to unpack in an experiential manner Approaches to Learning skills cluster Communication, skill communication and public speaking, tool Elevator Pitch. This engagement was created successfully used by me, an IB MYP and DP experienced educator during an MYP IDL week. Please feel free to adapt it when you purchase it. I would appreciate your ratings and your feedback. TIA

This is an exemplar of what reflection based on Edward de Bono’s ’ Six Thinking Hats’ tool looks, feels and sounds like. The students engaged with the tool as an aftermath of a debate unpacking altruism. The material shows application of a strategy via a compassionate learning system. When you purchase the material feel free to adapt it to your own needs. I would appreciate your feedback. a taster RED HAT ( compassionate systems ) think of warmth think of feelings Using the red hat gives you the opportunity to express feelings, emotions and intuition without any need to explain or to justify them. In a normal business discussion you are not supposed to allow your emotions to enter in. They enter in anyway- you merely disguise them as logic. Intuition may be based on a lot of experience. I feel this is the right person for the job. I feel this is a risky venture. My intuition tells me that this explanation is too complex. The opposite of neutral, objective information. Hunches, intuitions, impressions. No need to justify. No need to give reasons or the basis. Red hat is almost the exact opposite of white hat thinking, which is neutral, objective and free of emotional flavour. EMOTIONS DO NOT HAVE TO BE LOGICAL. EMOTIONS CAN BE FINE-TUNED WITH A LANGAUGE TO MATCH. RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO JUSTIFY EMOTIONS. If you are still with me I do greatly recommend this TED speech about the right brain hemisphere. It is scientific. http://www.ted.com Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened – as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding – she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU&feature=email sources my own blog https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8781870244858353119/1311555075788413434

A kick start to MYP IDU Whole Cohort material to unpack the ATL skills including the science of self-discipline and self-talk. How to set yourself for success.

PDF file created from my PPT used while supporting the English B Higher Level students self and peer assess their 1st WA draft. All six Approaches to Teaching have been applied in this supportive resource. What is more Approaches to Learning such as: Thinking cluster explicitly addressed through critical thinking support has also been embedded in that self-made source. This material bridges well the IB teaching mission/ theory with teaching classroom practice: from Principles to Practice.

This checklist not only guides the IB student precisely on how to design a WA RATIONALE layout to meet fully Criterion A top 7-8 boundaries * Language B Guide p. 46 Criterion A: Rationale and task • How well does the student use the rationale and the task in order to accomplish the assignment? This handout starts with precise guidelines on what should be included in each paragraph then the second part provides a quick self-assessment check list with on hands on the task approach, SIOP. There is also additional information on what else should be included in the rationale. It works, my students found it very meaningful and clear to follow.

" Show me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn " Benjamin Franklin This portfolio showns IB DP English B Grade 11 HL work and exploration through concepts with approaches to learning skills development, embedding Learner Profile descriptors and international mindedness. I hope that educators find it inspirational and provocative. Your feedback, dear experts, is always welcome and priceless.