SAIBSA GLIMPSES by Stuti Vasavada
Date: 18th April’2015
Venue: Mulund – Mumbai
Session – 1
Approaches To Learning
– ATL Skills
Facilitator –Mr. Rafael Angel
§
Culture Of Learning
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ATLs are considered as ‘backbone’ of MYP curriculum
o
Collaborative Learning and Interdisciplinary
Projects are the major aspects to develop all different sets of skills
o
To make Collaborative Learning effective –
1)Awareness of the academic surroundings – Each subject teacher should be
aware of the other subject curriculums and alert about the rest of the
activities and happenings.
2)
Sharing Strategies –The teachers should share
their unit plans and strategies of teaching with one another frequently
3)
Students should be able to demonstrate learning
4)
Setting up proper system for storing the
acquired knowledge
5)
Attitude – Each teacher is responsible to carry
an attitude of contributing
equally, regardless of the acquired position
6)
Designing Documents &Classes –The documents
and the classes should be designed in such a way that it creates enough scope
and opportunity to develop all different sets of skills prescribed by the MYP. Students
should not only be able to learn, rather they should be able to ‘feel’.
7)
Students should make self assessments/reflect
through journals and essays
§
Key Words
Following are few key words to keep in mind
while considering ATL Skills as part of the curriculum and the unit plans.
o
Promote – Thinking Skills through Inquiry
Questions, Statement of Inquiry and Experiments
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Empathy – Create and develop empathy within
students by addressing burning issues through debates or online discussions by
getting registered on some particular websites
Registration on MUN – Model UN Online
Debates
www.onlinemodelunitednations.org/
Registration
on SPECPOL –Making association with UNICEF
o
Apart
from these – Analyze, Art, Contradict, Debate, Contrast, Relate, Compare,
Evaluate, Assess
§
Generating
Dialogue through Reading
Following
are some books,which could help to generate dialogue within the students
through reading
1)
‘Number
The Star’ – For Individuals & Societies
2)
‘The
Curious Incident of A Dog in A Night’ – For Visual Arts
3)
‘Hatchef’
– For Biology
4)
‘A
Brilliant Mind’ – For Maths
§
All
ATL Skills have to be applied to CAS projects
§
Important
Links:
o
google
books
§ A separate document
on certain questions to be thought over for developing ATLs effectively was
provided; which is submitted to the MYP Coordinator if it is required to be
studied.
Session – 2
Conceptual & Contextual Learning
Facilitator:
Ms. Shyalaja Salwan
§
The
Activity:
The
participants were supposed to make loops of news paper stripes and link them at
various stages. It started with the one single participant and increased till
five participants step by step. At every stage the time duration was same.
Up to three
steps the output was increasing, however at the fourth stage it came down and once
again at the fifth stage it went up with the marginal difference.
The facts
derived as conclusion were-
1)
Teamwork
could produce better output as compare to the individual one; however not
always with all the probabilities. If number of participants increases more
than required, the output might turn up the other way round. Also, it might bring
down the level of quality.So the number of participants in a teamwork should be
exactly as per the requirement.
2)
All
the teams were provided resources however not of the same quality; i.e. quality
of adhesive tape and the pair of scissors. The quality of resources matters a
lot for the quality output of any project.
3)
At
some stages the instructions were not given properly in between the activity;
which was proven through the output how important it is to be clear and specific
while giving instructions while teaching.
4)
These concluded facts led the participants towards the larger picture of the
business studies and how it affects economics.The same fundamental is
applicable for the each project at different stages of academic subjects in
schools too.
§
Global
Context:
o
The
activity described above finally directed how a broad term concept could be
delivered through a simple activity. How a complex concept could be delivered
through a contextual activity, yet simplified.
o
An
MYP teacher should try to connect all different ‘Global Concepts’ and the ‘Key
Concepts’ as prescribed in the MYP guide with each and every single task as far
as possible.
o
A
key concept may be createdas per the requirement out of theprescribed set by
the MYP in the guide.
Session – 3
The Subject Specific Session
Facilitator:
Ms. Meeta Verma
Discussion on
–
o
MYP
Art Curriculum
o
How
Art could be incorporated with the other subjects of MYP Curriculum
o
Assessments
o
Task
Specific Clarification (TSC) for each strand for the summative assessment
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