Communication
Communication that demonstrates passion and understanding of the IB mission with an emphasis on international-mindedness and the learner profile.
📽 Video 📜 Worksheet 🤔 Activity/ Thinking Routine 🔗 Website / Link
Give and receive meaningful feedback
25 examples of how to get whole class feedback 🔗📜🤔
IB: Oral presentation peer feedback 🔗📜🤔
IB: Give and receive appropriate feedback 🔗📜🤔
Teach students to TAG (Tell them something you like, Ask them a question, Give them a suggestion) 🔗📜🤔
Strategies presentation 🔗📜🤔
TED Ed: How miscommunication happens 📽🔗📜🤔
Reinventing the Feedback Sandwich 🔗📜🤔
Use intercultural understanding to interpret communication
Excited Educator: International Mindedness 🔗
YouTube: What kind of Asian are you? 📽
YouTube: Weird or just different? 📽
Common Lit 🔗🤔
Global Oneness Project 🔗📜🤔📽
Use a variety of speaking techniques to communicate with a variety of audiences
Public Speaking Techniques To Wow Your Audience 🔗
IB: Oral and non-verbal presentations 🔗
Improving Speaking Skills with Poetry Podcasting 🔗
TED ED Club 📽🔗📜🤔
Academic Phrasebank 🔗🤔
How to Speak with Confidence: Crash Course Video 📽
Owl Purdue - Different Purposes 🔗📜🤔
Harnessing the Political Power of Words 🔗
RAFTS - Writing strategy for different perspectives 🔗📜🤔
Academic Phrasebank 🔗🤔
Have students use multiple tools together, for example creating an EMaze presentation, which contains photographs they have manipulated and a video they have created 🔗📜🤔
Is this share worthy? Flowchart/Poster and Activity (Newseum) 🔗📜🤔
TED ED Club 📽🔗📜🤔
Social Media: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #10 📽
Interpret and use effectively modes of non-verbal communication
Visible Thinking Routines - Colour, Symbol, Image Routine "A routine for distilling the essence of ideas non-verbally" 🔗📜🤔
Artful Thinking PZ Routines! 🔗📜🤔
Access to high quality primary sources (art, artefacts, etc) to analyse from Google Art and Culture 🔗
Negotiate ideas and knowledge with peers and teachers
Visible Thinking Routine - Think Pair Share 🔗📜🤔
What Would You Do? Media Ethics Scenarios (Activity) 🔗🤔
TED Ed Lesson: Networking for the networking averse 📽🔗📜🤔
Spreadsheet of Digital Citizenship Resources 🔗📜🤔
Is this share worthy? Flowchart/Poster and Activity (Newseum) 🔗🤔📜
Social Media: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #10 📽
Connect with other classrooms anywhere in the world through Google Hangouts and Skype. Contact teachers you know working abroad or connect with people through "Connected Classrooms" 🔗�
Is this share worthy? Flowchart/Poster and Activity (Newseum) 🔗📜🤔
Social Media: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #10 📽
How to Podcast 🔗
How to Speak with Confidence: Crash Course Video 📽
The Secret to Business Writing: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills #3 📽
Read critically and for comprehension
Chunking - An important skill for students to practice is the ability to comprehend challenging texts. 🔗📜🤔
Cooking Up Clickbait - Activity (Newseum) 🔗📜🤔
YouTube Video - The Benefits of Reading 📽
Have students sign up to Goodreads. Here they can log what they read, write reviews, take quizzes and more 🔗
YouTube Video - CrashCourse - How and Why We Read 📽
Make inferences and draw conclusions
TED Ed Lesson: Rethinking thinking 📽🔗📜🤔
Use the lesson "DICE Descriptions, inference, connections and evaluations" 🔗📜🤔
Use and interpret a range of discipline-specific terms and symbols
Visible Thinking Routine - See, Think, Wonder! 'Describing, interpreting and wondering' 🔗📜🤔
Write for different purposes
Owl Purdue - Purpose - Authors and audiences both have a wide range of purposes for communicating. The importance of purpose in rhetorical situations cannot be overstated 🔗📜🤔
Academic Phrasebank 🔗
RAFTS - Writing strategy for different perspectives 🔗📜🤔
The Secret to Business Writing: Crash Course Business 📽
Understand and use mathematical notation
The best stats you've ever seen - Hans Rosling 📽🔗📜🤔
TED Ed: Where do math symbols come from? 📽🔗📜🤔
How to visualize one part per million 📽🔗📜🤔
Paraphrase accurately and concisely
Owl Purdue: Online Lab: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing 🔗📜🤔
Visible Thinking Routines - Headlines 🔗📜🤔
Have students create note cards in Noodletools 🔗
Use Facing History's lesson 'Annotating and Paraphrasing Sources' (particularly good for historical documents) 🔗📜🤔
BrainPop Video and Quiz: Paraphrasing 🔗📜🤔📽
Preview and skim texts to build understanding
iTunes App: ReadQuick - Speed Reader "ReadQuick helps you read faster than ever before." 🔗
IB: Skim reading activities 🔗📜🤔
Take effective notes in class
Use this tool to generate worksheets for Cornell Note Taking 🔗📜🤔
How to get started with Sketchnotes 🔗📜🤔
Visual Note Taking! 🔗📜🤔
IB: Active Listening and Note Taking 🔗📜🤔
Taking Effective Notes Video (CrashCourse - Study Skills) 📽
Note taking tips when watching a video 📽🔗
Make effective summary notes for studying
How to Summarise 📽
Cornell Note Taking — The Best Way To Take Notes Explained 🔗
Create lotus diagrams 📜🔗
The Top 3 Most Effective Ways to Take Notes While Reading 🔗📜
Use a variety of organizers for academic writing tasks
Sync notes across devices with simplenote 🔗
The 11 Best Note-Taking Apps in 2021 – Evernote, Notion, and More 🔗
Cornell Note Taking — The Best Way To Take Notes Explained 🔗🤔
Create lotus charts 📜🔗🤔
Brain Pop Video and quiz on Concept Mapping 🤔🔗
Have students create a flowchart using PiktoChart (or similar) 🔗🤔
Structure information in a flow chart using Lucidcharts 🔗📜
Organizing Your Paper 🔗
Organizing Academic Research Papers: Academic Writing Style 🔗
How to structure paragraphs using the PEEL method 🔗📜
How to structure an essay: Templates and tips 🔗📜
How to Write an Essay: 4 Minute Step-by-Step Guide | Scribbr 🔗📽
Organizing Academic Research Papers: Academic Writing Style 🔗
Organizing Your Paper 🔗
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