March

Administration

Download and review the March coordinator’s notes from the implementation section of the PRC.

Facilitate meetings for the standardisation of IA marks and the final grade of the reflective project.

Review professional development needs. Select the best training option for your school and teacher’s circumstances.

• Face-to-face training often provides the most rewarding experience, but travel and accommodation can be expensive.

• Virtual (synchronous) training saves a lot of money and may be ideal for teachers who are unable to travel.

• Online (asynchronous) workshops are the cheapest option but can lack the interaction among educators that enhance the experience and add value to the shared information: these workshops are self-paced modules with weekly assignments, and the training period lasts 4 weeks

Update completed and scheduled professional training on ‘My IB’.

• Go to ‘my school’ → school profile → school staff → edit → roles with IB → edit subject → edit professional development -->add workshop (put it in as ‘future’).

• After teachers have attended, follow the same steps, but edit the workshop and change to ‘attended’.

• Save certificates of completion (after workshops).

Assessment

Read the conduct of exams manual and make an exam plan that includes locations and invigilators.

• IB teachers may not invigilate their own subject, but can help with others.

• Coordinators may invigilate (and should begin and end) all exams, including courses that they teach.

• Include plans for inclusive arrangements (this may require a separate room and extra invigilators).

• Print conduct of exams manuals.

Teachers

Facilitate meetings for the standardisation of student work for DP subjects and the reflective project.

Consider introducing a similar standardisation process for the core components and facilitate meetings for PPS, SL, and language development teachers to review and reflect on student portfolios in the different core components.

Begin compiling resource requests for the following year.

Marketing

Continue highlighting CP accomplishments on social media and/or school newsletters (e.g., college acceptance, scholarships, and notable accomplishments).