An MYP Language Acquisition and Individuals & Societies classroom with open doors
I teach an integrated class of English Language Acquisition-Humanities in Grade 6. In our first unit, we use digital storytelling as a medium to assess the students' conceptual understanding in Humanities. In this unit, the students expand their understanding of how time, place and space (key concept) shape and give meaning to their identity (related [...]
Thirty-nine thousand years ago, humans were using images to record and communicate ideas, long before any form of writing was developed. In our digital era, this quintessential means of communication is more relevant than ever. With the amount of information available at a click's distance, images can help pique the audience's interest and steer them towards certain content, [...]
Books, peer-reviewed articles, magazines, interviews, and websites. That is the extent of the sources I had to learn to reference when I was in university. It was a straightforward process: either summarize, paraphrase or quote the source, put an in-text citation, and add a reference in the bibliography. That was it. Simple. Academic honesty and [...]
So many things to teach and so little time! The eternal dilemma when planning a unit. For the first unit of my English-Humanities MYP Year 1 class (Phases 4-5), we chose Read Critically and for Comprehension as the ATL skill to teach this unit. This is an incredibly broad skill, so deciding on what aspects [...]
The MYP Classroom 