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Category Archives: Humanities
Empathy and a 7th Grade History Class
This post is part of my Professional Growth Plan documentation on how I’m using Design Thinking in my classroom One Grade 7 assignment I have done the past few years is a trial set during the Industrial Revolution, where students … Continue reading
Creating Questions: Ideation in a MYP World
My students spent a week coming up with a good question. A single question – average around 10 words – took my 8th graders a week to come up with. In comparison, my students will spend a week actually putting … Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, IBO-MYP-DP, MYP Humanities, Uncategorized
Tagged design thinking, humanities, myp, questions
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A Teacher Thinking Visibly
See, Think, Wonder Back in February, I signed up to take the Making Thinking Visible course offered through Harvard Project Zero. I had seen the teachers in the elementary school at YIS go through the class and heard how they … Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged digital citizenship, making thinking visible
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Sustainabilty and Inquiry: Asking Questions, Failing and Learning
My kids are failing and struggling and I’ve never been more proud of them. We are in the midst of a project and I don’t know if they are going to get done what I thought they were going to … Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, MYP Humanities, Uncategorized
Tagged CBL, energy, failing, I&S, individuals and societies, inquiry, pbl, sustainability, trello, YIS
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7th Graders (And One Teacher) Learning with Minecraft
Grade 7 seems like the wrong grade to pilot using Minecraft as a learning tool. This is an age where real-world interactions are difficult enough and empathy is sometimes lacking due to the fact that their bodies are rushed with … Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged 7th grade, alex guenther, GBL, griefers, humanities, minecraft, myp humanities
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The New MYP Humanities
If I haven’t said it before, I’m a big fan of MYP. Content takes a backseat to concept-driven curriculum. Skill development is more important than memorizing random facts. And right now we’re going through the growing pains of a new … Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, MYP Humanities
Tagged 2012 guide, guide, humanities, myp humanities, new guide
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Creating Infographics: Making Numbers Sing
… Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to listen to the music to understand how beautiful it is. But often that’s how we present statistics; we just show the … Continue reading
Posted in COETAIL @YIS, Humanities, Uncategorized
Tagged coeta, course 3, data, development, hans rosling, humanities, infographics, myp humanities, statistics, visual literacy
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Students Inspiring Action and Creating Awareness
The Assignment: Working in small groups or individually, you need to create something that communicates to people what you learned about modern-day Child Labor. It can inspire ACTION or it can CREATE awareness. You have freedom to ask a question … Continue reading
Posted in COETAIL @YIS, Humanities, MYP Humanities, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged change, child labor, myp humanites, social media, visual literacy
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Ninth Graders Wearing Ties, Kyrgyzstan, and Kiva Loans
Last Tuesday, 40 ninth graders were confidently presenting elevator pitches to the 2 teachers, the Head of Humanities, the Head of Academics, and the Head of School. The boys were wearing ties, if you need proof that it was big … Continue reading
The Long Goodbye to the Five Paragraph Essay
My first five paragraph essay that I remember writing was on the word “square”. I was in 9th grade Honors English and the assignment was to pick a word, go to the Oxford English Dictionary, and write a five paragraph … Continue reading
Posted in COETAIL @YIS, Humanities, IBO-MYP-DP, MYP Humanities
Tagged coetail, course 1, essay, myp humanities, rebekah madrid, writing
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