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Peer learning - from collaborative writing to individual writing Learning Engagement: The first unit for grade 9 revolved around Task 3 that requires three things of the children: an understanding and application of the Global Context, connection with the prompt to create a nonfictional text reflecting a particular perspective. Decoding the different strands is the first step and exploring it as a class on a common Google doc has proved very effective through the years. It helps children learn from each other and build on ideas. The children find issues that relate to each strand, the text type that would lend itself to explore this and are encouraged to create a GC based perspective question to explore the issue. Since the children learn best from and alongside peers, I got them to cocreate a piece for the first, familiar text type. This was either a blog or an article. They uploaded their pieces in a common drive so that everyone could read all the pieces, discuss at least three in t...

Objective of the Learning Engagement: The learning engagement connects to the SOI and use mathematics to understand and interpret the changes in design. For the objects chosen, students must find the surface area and volume before and after the change in the design with full working of calculations being shown. In their presentation, they should also include how the change in the design impacted the environment around them, market values and any other factors that are relevant to the objects. Also discuss whether the change has played a positive impact or negative impact on the environment and on the people’s perceptions. Details of the Learning Engagement: Reflection from Student: Participating in the learning engagement that required us to analyze the surface area, volume, and environmental impact of objects before and after design changes has been an enlightening experience. Initially, the idea of calculating these mathematical concepts seemed abstract, but as we worked through the...

The six MYP global contexts provide a framework for guiding questions that promote a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to learning.   I'm going to walk you through the steps we took to examine the global contexts for our MYP 2 curriculum and how it in fluenced the students' understanding:     Introduction to the Concept of Context: I started out by having a conversation with the students about what "context" means. Example of a party was used to demonstrate the concept, pointing out that while there are many different reasons for parties (birthday, anniversary, achievement), each one has a context that gives it meaning.     Using Context to Improve Learning:   I compared the party example to education inside the IB framework pushing students to consider why context matters while learning about a subject. This helped them to recognize that context gives any learning meaning and depth.     MYP Global contexts and their explorations were dis...