Language A: Literature Syllabus Creation Checklist for Higher Level (HL)
(Your goal is to answer “yes” to every question.)
Triple A Learning IB Blogs
February 27, 2011
Language A: Literature Syllabus Creation Checklist for Higher Level (HL)
(Your goal is to answer “yes” to every question.)
February 26, 2011
Blogs as a Way of Knowing?
The Philosophy of Blogging?
A good friend of mine recently gave a short and stimulating talk of the issue of blogs and knowing.
February 25, 2011
Review Strategies
With the exams looming in May, devising ways to review material and hone skills is timely.
Find below strategies I have used to keep students engaged.
Review Strategies
Review strategies
With the exams looming in May, devising ways to review material and hone skills is timely.
February 23, 2011
Airlines flying into the big chill
Established airlines are facing challenging times. Not only are they paying substantial increases in aviation fuel, but recession is leading to falling demand in several markets and competition from budget airlines is forcing them to lower prices and consequently look for cost savings. One approach to achieving overall cost reductions is through rationalisation of operations, involving redundancies and the closure of parts of a business. This has led to employee unrest in several airlines such as British Airways, as management seek to cap, or even reduce, remuneration packages and fringe benefits available to staff.
In pursuit of more economic business models, carriers are examining a whole series of collaborative ventures such as joint ventures and strategic alliances and many are considering mergers and acquisitions. In a previous post, I reported on one example of such a consolidation: the $3.2 billion merger of Continental Airlines with its domestic rival United Airlines creating the world’s largest carrier, representing approximately a fifth of the American airline market.
The end of communism in Poland
Today in class, I asked the students to give me the reasons they think communism ended in Poland. Almost all of them focused on Gorbachev and his reforms, and while this is a valid reason, they did not look at the organic, homegrown reasons for this event.
Poland was the first of the Eastern European countries to embrace a multi-party state and it was not an overnight affair. There were numerous tribulations that led to an end that did not have an eye-popping climax. Instead, the Polish voters went to the polls and elected Solidarity into power after a series of roundtable negotiations with the Communist Party.
PPP stimulus practice
The outline of work we did in class is a walk thought of how a stimulus can be used to explore themes and touches on the areas of the PPP report or commentary. These ideas can also be used as a starting point for an IP, option A, where students are devising.
A) Starting from a theme (link to history and culture)
February 22, 2011
iCAS
We do a lot of reflection when we pray.
I’m a Catholic and my elementary education occurred at St Catherine Laboure Primary School, in the parish of Gymea. I realize now that the good Sisters of St Joseph and the reverend Father Wilkinson had a lot to do with teaching me how to reflect.
