Ok, India… here I come
Wow, what a month. I am sitting rather comfortably in the lounge at Auckland Airport waiting for the first leg of my flight to Mumbai, India.
The last two weeks have been filled with preparing the 12 x 1.5 hour sessions for the workshop I am running. I had thought that my knowledge of the IB ITGS course was pretty good, but it is fair to say that its has grown considerably.
One thing we have been asked (told) to do is present and teach our delegates as exemplars of good teaching practice. Given the volume
of work and material I have to cover in the 3 days this is a challenge. I have to cover the syllabus, all aspects of assessment, Theory of knowledge, extended essays, general information about IB and then more. It would be easy to resort to the traditional chalk and talk or perhaps slide & talk. But we will see, I have tried to vary the approaches I use.
Dale’s learning cone has again proven itself accurate as what I thought I knew and how much I have learnt as I prepare to teach are leagues apart.
So 4 days in Mumbai and then straight back home.
November 18th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
All the best Andrew! I’m sure you’ll do a great job.
I really like the Learning Pyramid graphic in this post.Have you made it yourself? It would look great on the wall of my classroom, and certainly get my kids thinking. Can you tell me where we can find it?
Thanks for keeping your blog going – it’s really helpful and informative.
Mark.
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