"...teachers model the skill and provide scaffolds when introducing a skill for the first time." ( https://resources.ibo.org/pyp/works/pyp_11162-51465?root=1.6.2.4.5.3) The skills and sub-skills make learning more engaging and meaningful because it allows students to learn how to learn. When you listen to Guy Claxton or Daniel Pink talk about 21st century skills and what the job force of the future will ask from our present day students, you sit up and read those skill sets more closely! I read over the portion on Approaches to Learning in MyIB's digital Resource Page and found that one innocuous line quoted above with reference to teaching. But I think we need to start from someplace else. Do you, the classroom teachers practice these skill sets with ease? Let's take communication skills for instance. Communication skills Exchanging-information skills (listening, interpreting, speaking) Literacy skills (reading, writing and using language to gather and communicat...
This blog is a tribute to my parents who are life long-learners and my students whose identity and world views I am responsible for nurturing in the span of 365 days.