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Using the IB Approaches To Teaching to drive Professional Development Regents International School Pattaya
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t Regents International School, Pattaya we follow the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme for Key Stage 5. The IBDP Programme offers students a different way of learning compared to GCSEs or A-Levels. It focusses on allowing students to not just learn knowledge, but also how to conceptualise it and place it in a variety of different contexts. The driving force behind the IBDP Programme is the Approaches to Teaching and Learning. Approaches to Teaching: • Differentiating to meet the needs of the learners • Teaching to develop conceptual understanding • Developing local and global context • Promoting effective teamwork and collaboration • Inquiry-based learning • Using assessment to inform teaching Approaches to Learning: • Thinking skills • Communication skills • Social skills • Self-management skills • Research skills This year we are using the Approaches to Teaching as the driving force behind professional development. At the start of the year teachers complete a self-reflection against an ‘Approaches to Teaching Matrix’ (see below).
14 I CPD Digest, Volume 3 Issue 2, 2nd December 2020
