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Objective of the Learning Engagement: Understanding research and how to plan it Details of the Learning Engagement: This is a 4 part research workshop where the aspect of research is broken down into its main components. MYP 1 students are taken through these so as to help them understand the importance of research, how to plan it, how to go about it and how to use it in their tasks. Impact of the engagement on students and teacher's reflection: Students understand how to streamline their research questions and thereby, their actual research, ensuring in-depth understanding of the topics they have choose to look into. They also understand how to ensure that they have authentic information, paraphrase and summarise it appropriately and cite their sources as well. Giving them this training in MYP 1 itself allows for them to use this knowledge across subjects and moving forward to higher grades too.

Objective of the Learning Engagement: To recap learning from a unit and building empathy Details of the Learning Engagement: The unit was on building a culture of acceptance through the reading of " The Boy at the Back of the Class " by Onjali K Rauf. After completing the unit and the summative, I wanted to let the children build empathy but through a fun activity. I had recently, on researching about learning through games, come across one on Minecraft where they had to build a refugee camp adhering to UNHCR standards. So I decided to get the children to engage with this. I also gave them the option to create a board game - online or offline - around the book. A couple of children wanted to make grammar related games. I gave them three lessons to create the games and then they had each play these. One of these was to act out scenes. Several children created the Refugee camp. Impact of the engagement on students and reflection as a teacher: There was a lot of excitement as t