New Triple A Learning workshops

(Scroll down and select Triple A Learning IB Workshops)

Our own Triple A Learning workshops are designed with you in mind. They are both subject specific and whole-school  related. They have been developed to to support excellent classroom teachers by providing both strategies for delivery and shared resources. 

Are you or your coleagues struggling with how best to integrate information technology into course outlines? Triple A Learning workshops support teachers in the practical application of information technology and Web 2.0 tool in the classroom. Beginning 8th October we have three new workshops designed to introduce participants to a range of IT applications and to guide them through their use:

• Expanding your Web: an introduction to Social Learning, Personal Learning Networks, and Web Tools (Beginner Course)
• Digital Storytelling: Getting Started (Beginner Course)
• 3D Virtual Worlds: Getting Started (Beginner Course)

In addition, Triple A Learning is pleased to announce the following newly developed workshops for the DP programme and across the Continuum:

• Assessment: Designing and Evaluating your Policies and Procedures
• Business & Management: Making Marketing fun to teach and learn (begins 29^th October)
• Developing and Implementing an Anti-Bullying Policy
• Differentiation: Meeting the Needs of all Learners
• Enduring misconceptions in pre-University Chemistry: How to Recognize and Address Them
• Language Policy and Procedures
• Musical Links Investigation
• Music: Producing & Recording in the Classroom
• Getting through the 5-year evaluation for the IBDP

Triple A Learning also offers the following workshops for the DP programme and across the Continuum:

• Assessing 20th Century History topics: the Cold War
• Artists using Art: enhancing art teaching and learning through Transcription and Appropriation
• Business & Management: Making Accounting and Finance fun to teach and learn
• Teaching International Economics
• What makes an IB Library?
• Developing and Extending CAS
• Extended Essays – roles, responsibilities, research and resources
• IB Music Prescribed Works: Prokofiev and Xian
• Introduction to Higher Education Counselling
• Lang A: Literature part 1 - Literature in Translation
• Supporting student inquiry in the DP

For fuller details about the content and structure of these workshops and other Triple A Learning workshops, please browse our workshop site by following this link.

Follow the links below (or select the IB Workshops tab at the top of the page) for details of all workshops running from 8th October 2012

IB-approved DP Workshops  (Scroll down and select Diploma Programme)

• These workshops count towards a school’s IB authorization process and, depending on the category chosen, are fully recognised as part of the IB authorization process
• All workshops require 4-6 hours commitment per week to satisfy the certification requirements
• Workshops cost from (GBP) £150 to £395 depending on the length of workshop

(Select Diploma Programme)

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Category 1 - Introduction to teaching DP: Economics, Psychology and Philosophy
Category 3 – Internal Assessment: Economics, History, Psychology, Business and Management, Economics – Boosting student grades

Group 4
Category 1 – Introduction to teaching DP:  Biology, Chemistry, Physics
and Design Technology

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Category 1 – Introduction to teaching DP: Music, Theatre, Film, Visual Arts

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Category 3 - Guiding students to good TOK essays, Running good TOK presentations

• These workshops count towards a school’s IB authorization process and, depending on the category chosen, are fully recognised as part of the IB authorization process.
• May’s feature workshop:
• All workshops require 4-6 hours commitment per week to satisfy the certification requirements.
• Workshops cost from (GBP) £195 to £395 depending on the length of workshop

We also offer an extensive number of IB-approved MYP workshops.

To register and find out more…

Already have an account with us? Go to our Workshop Booking System  Not registered before? Go to Registration Guidance  If you have any queries, please contact us at workshops@triplealearning.com.

Best wishes to everyone! Laura

Our next session begins on October 8th. Do not miss out on these…book now to update your professional training. Our interactive workshops and resources will help take your career to the next level and support your classroom practice. Our courses cover subject-specific and whole-school topics and make the in-service training budget go further.

We also have an exciting new range of Triple A Learning workshops to supplement our IB-approved offering:

• 3D Virtual Worlds: Getting Started (Beginner Course)
• Artists using Art: enhancing art teaching and learning through Transcription and Appropriation
• Assessment: Designing and Evaluating your Policies and Procedures
• Business & Management: Making Marketing fun to teach and learn
• Developing and Implementing an Anti-Bullying Policy
• Differentiation: Meeting the Needs of all Learners (Part 1)
• Digital Storytelling: Getting Started (Beginner Course)
• Enduring misconceptions in pre-University Chemistry: How to Recognize and Address Them
• Expanding your Web: an introduction to Social Learning. Personal Learning Networks, and Web  Tools
• Language A: Meaningful Study and Assessment in Part 4 – Options
• Language Policy and Procedures
• Teaching International Economics
• Musical Links Investigation
• Music: Producing & Recording in the Classroom

All our workshops are developed and mentored by highly experienced practitioners – many of whom have been senior examiners.

Workshops available…

Follow the links below (or select the IB Workshops tab at the top of the page) for details of all workshops running from 8th October

IB-approved DP Workshops  (Scroll down and select Diploma Programme)

• These workshops count towards a school’s IB authorization process and, depending on the category chosen, are fully recognised as part of the IB authorization process
• All workshops require 4-6 hours commitment per week to satisfy the certification requirements. Workshops cost from (GBP) £150 to £395 depending on the length of workshop

Triple A Learning Workshops  (Scroll down and select Triple A Learning IB Workshops)

Our own Triple A Learning workshops are designed with you in mind. They are both subject specific and whole-school  related. They have been developed to to support excellent classroom teachers by providing both strategies for delivery and shared resources. These workshops are not recognised by the IB for school authorization and evaluation purposes.

We also offer an extensive number of IB-approved MYP workshops.

To register and find out more…

Already have an account with us? Go to our Workshop Booking System  Not registered before? Go to Registration Guidance  If you have any queries, please contact us at workshops@triplealearning.com.

As a result of surveying local museum experts, here is the top world list for museum touring….

Africa

• National Museum of Rwanda
• Nairobi National Museum, Kenya

Antarctica

• Scott’s Hut

Asia

• Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan
• Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, Shanghai, China
• Science City, Kolkata, India
• National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India
• Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar

Australia

• National Museum of Australia, ACT, Australia
• Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia

Europe

• The Louvre, Paris, France
• The British Museum, London, UK

North America

• The Smithsonian Museums, Washington DC, USA
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
• The Museum of Anthropology, British Columbia, Canada
• Museo Nacional de Anthropologia, Mexico

South America

• Museo del Oro, Bogotá, Colombia
• Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Krystal D’Costa’s talk on The Anthropology of Coffee. Krystal is now staff blogger for Scientific American, where she also posted on this topic.

Sarah Lyon’s Coffee and Community (focused on Mayan communities) won the AAA 2012 Society for Economic Anthropology Book Prize.

On my shelf is Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability and Survival. The book looks at coffee production from the perspective of farmers in Oaxaca, Mexico

Photo: Sue Jackson

Despite a faltering global economy, the UN World Tourism Organization estimates that international tourist arrivals will top one billion in 2012. Moreover, they project that between 35 and 40 percent of these arrivals will involve cultural, archaeological, or heritage tourism in some way, shape, or form. Christian Wells 

This week, students in the Northern Hemisphere will write their final examinations. As their pens lift off the paper, their thoughts will inevitably turn to the holidays ahead. With this in mind, I focus my attention on the anthropology of tourism. There is so much fabulous material written on this topic that I will post several times on the theory, practice and enjoyment of touring the world.

Perhaps my favourite reading on the theme of tourism is Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place. Kincaid, a literary author, presents a sobering, passionate and engaging account of a local perspective on North American and European tourists visiting the Caribbean country of Antigua. After reading this, it may be useful to check out the writing of Xianghong Feng who discusses the importance of tourism and how local people – in her case, in China – can stay involved in the industry.

For a more general look at the anthropology of tourism as a sub-discipline, start by checking out the University of Indiana’s site. John Urry’s The Tourist Gaze and Dean MacCannell’s The Tourist, are also both wonderful starting places for understanding the ‘tourist gaze’ and dynamics of tourism.

If you are a teacher thinking about the holidays, and wondering how the structure of weekends and summers came to be, check out Witold Rybczynski’s Waiting for the Weekend. Rybczynski gives us a deeper understanding of the meaning of leisure, particularly within a European context.

Stay tuned for museum recommendations and regional studies of tourism. In the meantime, please let me know if you have come across engaging resources on the topic of tourism. I would also love to hear about any travel plans you have afoot!

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From earliest times, humans had tools like hammers that extended our physical self. Today’s technology extends our mental self. It’s changing the way we experience the world. —Amber Case

Each year, National Geographic recognizes visionary individuals who are actively working toward global problem-solving. The recipients do not apply, they are nominated by a panel of experts. This year, Cyborg Anthropologist Amber Case tops the list of 15. Read more here.

Anthropologists have often been involved as part of teams that strategize for political campaign teams. This week, Luhrmann offers a particularly interesting perspective on how the U.S. President Obama might capture more of the evangelical Christian vote.

 Luhrmann has studied evangelical Christians for ten years and states that they make up just over a quarter of the American population – a significant portion of potential US voters. She argues that the democrats have not been speaking the right language to reach evangelical voters. She believes that in order to reach the evangelical vote, it is important for politicians to focus on how their actions will make Americans better people. This means focusing on how people can improve their moral character, or how social services enhance love and compassion.

Great food for thought. Not only does Luhrmann give insight into the population she studied, she also shows how her anthropological research can be applied to political campaigns.

Here are four things to think about in terms of techniques…

1. Permission & ethics
Before using any research techniques, candidates need to have a clear plan in terms of ensuring that their research will be ethical. This includes considering their own positionality, considering the effect the research might have on the subjects/informants; being open with informants about the focus and intent of the research; and gaining clear permission for research.

2. Justifying the techniques
Students need to be thoughtful about why they are using a particular technique – is it for their own convenience? Is it the most appropriate technique from the perspective of gathering data? Is it an appropriate technique from the perspective of the informants and context?

3. Revisiting data
Fieldwork conducted over a period of time is usually stronger than fieldwork conducted in just a few days or even one week. The best projects allow students to engage in a process where they collect data, stand back and reflect, collect more data, reflect some more, and then perhaps continue to collect data. This might involve observing, distributing a questionnaire, then conducting interviews. Alternatively, students might interview the subjects using a focus-group format, followed by individual interviews. Or they could interview the same people more than once. Stand-alone questionnaires do not always work well as they often end up being more of a statistical exercise than something that upholds the spirit of fieldwork.

 4. Online research
Online research is becoming more common in anthropology. Before a student decides to focus on online research they should examine their own motives: is this a topic and context that really interests them? Or is this a convenient way to do their research? If they decide to pursue online research, the context of their study will need to be carefully narrowed. In terms of techniques, Christine Hines’ Virtual Ethnography is a good source for teachers and students. Finally, schools need to educate students about cyber safety. For example, it would be inappropriate for high school students to find informants online and then meet them in person.

What are your experiences with students and research techniques?  Any great examples to share?