PYP library Helping Students Cope With Uncertainty: Advice From a Psychologist - Ask a Psychologist: Helping Students Thrive Now There is so much debate right now about what will happen with schools, the economy, and so much else. I'm having trouble coping with uncertainty and don't know what to say to my students. What do you advise? Uncertainty about the future is an extremely uncomfortable psychological state—particularly when what looms on the horizon is negative, not positive. For example, not knowing how long the recession will last is, in some ways, more difficult than knowing with certainty that the recession will last a year. Psychologists sometimes talk about the "need for closure" versus "tolerance of ambiguity." I have three suggestions for coping with uncertainty. First, tell your students that feeling distressed about our inability to predict what will happen in the future is entirely normal. Second, help your students put things in perspective. And, finally, consider sharing this quote attributed to John Lennon and, perhaps, a comfort in these challenging times: "Everything will be okay in the end.
Keep It Simple Standards-Based Grading Keep It Simple Standards-Based Grading (K.I.S.SBG.) This post will probably raise the ire of SBG purists. If you are considering switching to SBG, I say go for it. Even if it means you keep it simple the first year, as you and your students figure it all out for the first time. Here’s my K.I.S.SBG. story… Last spring, I taught a section of conceptual chemisty. And then I sat down to grade their first quiz. How many points was each question worth? All those questions made it clear: I couldn’t go back to a points-system. A set of ~5 standards per unit. Each standard was graded binary YES/NO. Standards that are YES cannot go back down. Term grade = 50 + 50*(#YES/#TOTAL). No student-initiated reassessments. I didn’t write the standards on each quiz, but put them on a separate scoring sheet (see below). When I finished marking all the quizzes, I used the score sheets to transfer the grades into ActiveGrade. After all the scores were entered, I printed a current grade report for each student.
Inquiry maths Water Tank Engineering with Newspaper, Part 1 - Vista Think MYP Design Cycle – Getting Started In July of 2015, I taught my first design unit in grade: water tank engineering from newspaper. Middle school design teachers and colleagues Jessie M. and Angie U. created the first version of the unit. It was intended to be an introduction to MYP Design and the MYP Design Cycle via a hands-on and easy-to-comprehend engineering problem. This unit was also my first experience with Year 1 (grade 6) MYP Design. I was expecting a greater emphasis on rapid prototyping and concerned about a loss of engagement by students. After completing the unit the first time, I see now that I had begun to appreciate the sequential guidance and reliable authority of the four-part MYP Design Cycle. Lesson Plan Model Background After four years, I was fortunate to have taught the unit to over 300 sixth graders. What were the intended skill outcomes? Connections to Standards Another pro is the straightforward science connection. A Performance Task Scenario Statement of Inquiry
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Educational Technology Guy Learning theory: models, product and process Photo by Antenna on Unsplash Contents: introduction · what do people think learning is? · learning as a product · learning as a process · experience · reflective thinking · making connections · committing and acting · task-conscious or acquisition learning, and learning-conscious or formalized learning · the behaviourist orientation to learning · the cognitive orientation to learning · the humanistic orientation to learning · the social/situational orientation to learning · the constructivist/social constructivist orientation to learning · further reading · references · how to cite this article See, also, What is education? Over the last thirty years or so, ‘learning’ has become one of the most used words in the field of education. Yet, for all the talk of ‘learning’, there has been little questioning about what it is, and what it entails. There has been a similar situation in the field of education. [O]ther kinds of social learning are more sophisticated, and more fundamental. Taxonomies
MYP Resources You can take a one month free trial for any InThinking site if you have neither had a paid subscription nor a free trial in the last two years. Our teacher sites include INTEGRATED STUDENT ACCESS which enables you to set tasks and give feedback online. Student access is easy to set up; you can set reading, writing, discussion, and multiple choice tasks; and you can track student progress. To sign up, go to: You might also encourage your students to sign up for our DP revision websites, most of which are FREE. These sites are ideal for independent learning and self-assessment; and they should be invaluable in the run up to the IB exams. If there is anything further we can do to help in difficult times, please do not hesitate to contact us here. Please spread the word - and stay healthy! The InThinking team
10 Great Free Web Tools for Teachers and Educators Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has handpicked for you some great educational web tools that we have come across in different websites and blogs during the last week. We are adding the list to the section called Educational Web Tools where we provide busy teachers and educators with resources and links about educational web technologies . Check out the list below and let us know what you think. 1- The Borgeson Bunch The Borgeson Bunch is a website that is intended to be a place where students can learn to develop their skills in a variety of ways. 2- Link TV Link TV broadcasts programs that engage, educate and activate viewers to become involved in the world. 3- Infogr.am Infogr.am is a a great web tool that allows users to easily create infographics and share them with the world. 4- Pastelink Pastelink is a tool that lets you easily share files online. 5- Unshorten It Unshorten It is a free web service that helps you find out where a shortened URL will take you. 6- Saaspose
What Is Universal Design for Learning? To understand what Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is, it helps to understand what it’s not. The word universal may throw you off. It may sound like UDL is about finding one way to teach all kids. But UDL actually takes the opposite approach. The goal of UDL is to use a variety of teaching methods to remove any barriers to learning and give all students equal opportunities to succeed. It’s about building in flexibility that can be adjusted for every student’s strengths and needs. This approach to teaching doesn’t specifically target kids who learn and think differently. Even if you’re not familiar with the term universal design, you’ve likely encountered many examples of it in your everyday life. For example, closed captioning on TVs allows people with hearing impairments to see onscreen text of what is being said. UDL provides that same kind of flexibility in the classroom. UDL is a framework for how to develop lesson plans and assessments that is based on three main principles:
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