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Show You Care - Be Aware

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by Rajee Venugopal Unit 1 reflection MYP 3 Global Context - Identities and relationship (Exploring - Physical, spiritual and mental health) The students were introduced to the first topic in this unit ’Food Production’ where they organised themselves into different continents and presented their progress in the field of agriculture. It was a very good activity where sharing of information took place to the maximum and ended up in a debate. The complete classroom scenario was like a seminar and the learners enjoyed this. The skills developed through this activity were research skills and communication skills. An agricultural farm visit was planned to learn about new techniques of farming. The students’ knowledge about agricultural practices was further extended to a service through farming in a small scale in the school premises. They grew Fenugreek (methi) in a sort of kitchen garden, taking care to water the plants and adding manure from time to time. ...
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The Power of Peer Assessment

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by Harsha Pherwani Peer assessment is a learning tool wherein the students assess their peers’ work and have their work assessed by peers. It gives an opportunity to the learners to comprehend the assessment criteria in a better manner along with increased motivation and engagement in the class. The students give feedback on the quality of their peers’ work, often with ideas and strategies for improvement.  While assessing their peers the students enhance their own learning and self-confidence.  They get a deeper understanding and gain an insight into their own approach to an assessment task in comparison to their peers. This collaborative learning technique helps the students to develop their listening, communication and thinking skills. Richard Branson has rightly quoted that “The best way of learning about anything is by doing.” As a part of Language and Literature Unit - “Childhood” the students of MYP 1 did a Formative Asse...
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Reflections on SAIBSA MYP Job Alike Session Mumbai on 7 October 2017

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SAIBSA – An Introspection! – Rajee Venugopal Attending SAIBSA Job Alike session was a good learning experience. The plenary session was very interesting wherein we received a lot of inputs to improve our understanding of conceptual learning, using Global contexts and making classroom learning interesting, and at the same time informative by applying the inquiry cycle. Our subject specific meet started on a very dull note with a Skype session on Simulations. I found that most of the science teachers already use simulations in their classroom teaching. Then a session on answering questions related to grey areas in unit planners was conducted, which I think could have been more specific for the benefit of new teachers. Anyway, most of the queries were attended to in a short time. A lot was discussed on IDU planning and I was glad to find that our understanding about planning and executing an IDU is quite sound. It was overwhelming to know that we are moving in the ...
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