Personal Project for the IB MYP 4&5


Book Description

Become an independent, lifelong learner and achieve your best possible project grade, while strengthening and practising your ATL skills. - Engage in practical explorations through a cycle of inquiry, action and reflection. - Build ATL skills with strategies, detailed examiner advice, expert tips, and infographics in every chapter for visual learners. - Clarify IB requirements with concise and clear explanations, including assessment objectives and rules on academic honesty. - Foster the attributes of the IB learner profile with explicit reference made throughout to link with your research. - Progress independently through your project with advice, tips and common mistakes to avoid.




Personal Project for the IB MYP 4&5: Skills for Success Second edition


Book Description

Unpack the Personal Project objectives to gain a clear understanding of the overall process, while building the ATL skills required to become an independent, lifelong learner. - Updated to reflect the new Guide for first teaching 2021. - Packed with practical plans and skills to help engage in the project, including visible thinking and design thinking routines; organised by the ATL skills to ensure easy navigation. - A comprehensive chapter on planning gives a variety of strategies for goal setting and creating an action plan to guide the Personal Project process. - Focus on your time with an outline of ways to document the Personal Project process, tips on time management, an explanation of the role of the supervisor and the best way to engage with them throughout the project. - Chart development through the project with opportunities for reflection, clear assessment objectives and a chance to record expected tangible or intangible results.




Chemistry for the IB MYP 4 & 5


Book Description

The only series for MYP 4 and 5 developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate (IB) Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach presented in global contexts. - Develop conceptual understanding with key MYP concepts and related concepts at the heart of each chapter. - Learn by asking questions with a statement of inquiry in each chapter. - Prepare for every aspect of assessment using support and tasks designed by experienced educators. - Understand how to extend your learning through research projects and interdisciplinary opportunities. This title is also available in two digital formats via Dynamic Learning. Find out more by clicking on the links at the top of the page.




Taking the MYP Forward


Book Description

Expert writers share reflections on their experience, and explore issues for the future, of the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme. The issues raised are of interest and relevance to those with responsibility for MYP teaching, learning and administration in schools and will provoke interest in the programme amongst those considering its adoption.




A Repair Kit for Grading


Book Description

Describes fifteen strategies for grading practices that recognize student learning and achievement and are consistent, accurate, and aligned with school or district standards.




Community Project for the IB MYP 3-4


Book Description

Become an independent, lifelong learner and feel supported through the Community Project, while strengthening and practising your ATL skills. - Engage in practical explorations through a cycle of inquiry, action and reflection. - Build ATL skills with strategies, detailed examiner advice, expert tips, and infographics in every chapter for visual learners. - Clarify IB requirements with concise and clear explanations, including assessment objectives and rules on academic honesty. - Foster the attributes of the IB learner profile with explicit reference made throughout to link with your research. - Progress independently through your Community Project with advice, tips and common mistakes to avoid.




Language and Literature for the IB MYP 4 & 5


Book Description

The only series for MYP 4 and 5 developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate (IB) Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Language and Literature presented in global contexts. - Develop conceptual understanding with key MYP concepts and related concepts at the heart of each chapter. - Learn by asking questions with a statement of inquiry in each chapter. - Prepare for every aspect of assessment using support and tasks designed by experienced educators. - Understand how to extend your learning through research projects and interdisciplinary opportunities.




Individuals and Societies for the IB MYP 4&5: by Concept


Book Description

Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Individuals and societies, presented in global contexts. · Develop conceptual understanding with key MYP concepts and related concepts at the heart of each chapter. · Learn by asking questions for a statement of inquiry in each chapter. · Prepare for every aspect of assessment using support and tasks designed by experienced educators. · Understand how to extend your learning through research projects and interdisciplinary opportunities. · Think internationally with chapters and concepts set in global contexts.




African American Literary Theory


Book Description

Fifty-one essays by writers such as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as critics and academics such as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. examine the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s through the present. Contributions are organized chronologically beginning with the rise of a black aesthetic criticism, through the Black Arts Movement, feminism, structuralism and poststructuralism, queer theory, and cultural studies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR




Look Both Ways


Book Description

"A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school"--