NGG-Information #2 2008-2009 - Nordsjællands Grundskole og ...

odology and to develop new skills and ideas
for their teaching which ultimately benefit our
students.
Comments from the teachers who attended
workshops include:
Derek Scott MYP Humanities
I attended the Humanities workshop where we
focussed on both subject planning issues and
on team planning activities (including working
with Archana to create a plan for a Science-
Humanities interdisciplinary unit for year 4).
At one point in the Humanities workshops I was
able to share photocopied examples of completed
student work from my classes here at
HIS, in response to a particular task about the
planning of assessment, and I was touched by
the positive response they were met by, and
ended up sharing some of these exemplars
both on paper and by email (as far afield as
Azerbaijan!) with my colleagues in the Humanities
group. (I have received 27 resources by
email, that I may be able to use in the future, in
return!) The point that I valued most about the
whole three-day workshop was that we stayed
consistently on the subject of planning and
remained completely focused on it. All other
issues pop up naturally, if you have planning as
your overarching aim.
Jan Alling MYP Technology
I was on a course in a combination of computer
and Design Technology, which is changing to
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Technology from next year. The reason for this
is that they want to let the student learn to work
with design. The learning process is from MYP
Year 1 to MYPYear 4 after which the students
should be able to produce a real life product in
MYP Year 5 that could, in some way, be marketed
outside the school.
Examples could be:
a) Make a travel guide.
b) Make a toy to improve children’s
motor skills.
c) Look at different kinds of logistics.
A very informative and worthwhile course.
Archana Painuly MYP Science
We were twenty-eight teachers from around
twenty-two different countries. Rubin Borges
was our workshop leader. All together we had
twelve sessions. The workshop was very informative
and useful. During the sessions we
had interesting discussions on the existing
practices in the participants’ schools and how
IB MYP methodology and curriculum planning
should be implemented in our teaching. We
exchanged ideas and our views on assessment
tasks. The workshop was quite useful and it
provided clarity on various items related to MYP
teaching including interim objectives, strands,
collaborative planning, unit planners, designing
criterion-related tasks, assessment in the MYP
etc. I feel this will be helpful in my teaching to
MYP students in the school.
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