3 practical ways to cultivate professional learning in your school and beyond
IB Asia Pacific Conference – Hyderabad, India, March 2016
Presentation slides
Introduction to building a Professional Learning Network (PLN)
Exemplars of documents used to support job-a-like days for teachers in the Shanghai and Jiangsu – IB World Schools Network
*If you wish to use these resources below for your own network, please kindly acknowledge the work that my colleague, Renee Rehfeldt, has done in preparing these documents. Thank you.
DP Jiangsu and Shanghai Network Job-A-Like letter – 2015 May 29
DP Jiangsu and Shanghai Network Job-a-Likes – Setting an Agenda – August 2015
DP Jiangsu and Shanghai Network Job-a-Likes – Responsibilities – August 2015
DP Jiangsu and Shanghai Network Job-a-Likes – Essential Agreements for participants – August 2015
DP Jiangsu and Shanghai Network Job-a-Likes – Checklist – August 2015
MYP Jiangsu and Shanghai Network Job-a-Likes – Setting Agenda – Sept 2015MYP Jiangsu and Shanghai Network Job-a-Likes – Setting Agenda – April 2014
Developing Literacy Across the Curriculum
EARCOS Weekend Workshop – Suzhou, China, September 25 and 25
Presentation Slides
literacy-workshop-slides-day-1-building-academic-vocabulary
literacy-workshop-day-2-writing
Useful websites for Academic Vocabulary Games
Quia – look specifically for the shared activities
Reading
The Art and Science of Teaching / Summarizing to Comprehend
Visible Thinking – by Project Zero
Resources for Visible Thinking
ASCD article – summarizing to comprehend
The writing process
Implementing the writing process
Pre-writing and drafting – Using thought stems
A great resource for Bloom’s Taxonomy and question stems
26 sentence stems for use with speaking and writing to develop higher order thinking
Using graphic organizers in the Pre-writing stage
Daily Teaching Tolls – graphic organisers
Graphic Organizers from Horton Mifflin Harcourt
Teaching Nominalisation
Books / References
Active Literacy Across the Curriculum