Title / Titulo
Location
OBCC 220
Start Date
17-5-2018 11:45 AM
End Date
17-5-2018 12:45 PM
Presentation Type / Tipo de propuesta
Poster Session / Sesiones de pósters
Description / Descripción
As part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, students complete a 100-hour Theory of Knowledge (TOK) course. This poster session will share examples of how teachers around the world are utilising these TOK lessons to develop students’ thinking skills and dispositions, as well as to deepen understandings and connections across disciplines. It will also share insights into the challenges that teachers and students report facing when implementing these kinds of activities and how they try to overcome them, drawing on a wide range of feedback from teacher and alumni questionnaires, focus groups, and feedback from teacher professional development workshops.
Audience / Audiencia
Teachers / Profesores, Policy Makers / Formadores de Políticas, Researchers / Investigadores
Included in
Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Educational Methods Commons, International and Comparative Education Commons
Event Location
Developing Students’ Thinking through the IB Theory of Knowledge Course: Opportunities and Challenges
OBCC 220
As part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, students complete a 100-hour Theory of Knowledge (TOK) course. This poster session will share examples of how teachers around the world are utilising these TOK lessons to develop students’ thinking skills and dispositions, as well as to deepen understandings and connections across disciplines. It will also share insights into the challenges that teachers and students report facing when implementing these kinds of activities and how they try to overcome them, drawing on a wide range of feedback from teacher and alumni questionnaires, focus groups, and feedback from teacher professional development workshops.