Learning and Growing Through Assessment

Schoolwide IB Networking Session Four

Strong dialogue skills help students clarify their thinking, engage thoughtfully with global issues, and communicate ideas with confidence. These same skills strengthen analytical writing, enabling students to move beyond description and explain what a text means, why it matters, and how it works.

This page provides the core resources used in Networking Session 4: Learning and Growing Through Assessment. These materials explore how structured dialogue supported through Generation Global, helps students develop key communication and reflection skills that strengthen performance in IB Language and Literature assessments.

At the top of the page you will find slides highlighting two key global communication skills, Sharing and Reflecting, along with discussion prompts used in the session. These tools help students practice articulating their perspectives on global issues, listening to others, and reflecting on how their thinking evolves. Over time, these habits build the confidence and analytical clarity students need for tasks such as the Individual Oral, where they must sustain a line of inquiry connecting literary and non-literary texts to a global issue.

Dialogue prepares students to “think in public, test ideas safely, and refine perspectives.”

Core Dialogue Skills for IB Language & Literature

These slides outline the dialogue skills used in the session and demonstrate how they support both classroom inquiry and IB assessment. Which of the two skills will you be practicing, today?

Community Dialogue: Culture, Perspective, and Global Issues

In IB Language and Literature, global issues invite students to explore how identity, culture, and lived experience shape the way we interpret the world. Dialogue helps students practice expressing their perspectives, listening carefully to others, and reflecting on how new viewpoints influence their own thinking.

The following discussion prompt invites participants to engage with a non-literary text by Tjreed Royaards (2025) and consider how cultural experiences influence our understanding of wealth, poverty, and opportunity. As you participate, focus on practicing the dialogue skills of sharing personal perspectives and reflecting on how others’ perspectives deepen or challenge your own understanding.

Discussion Prompt

How has your culture influenced your perspective on wealth and poverty?

Royaards, T. (2025, November). Just work hard [Cartoon]. Cartoon Movement. https://www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/just-work-hard

Further reading & resources

The additional resources below provide further support for cultivating dialogue in the classroom, enabling students to engage with diverse perspectives, provide meaningful peer feedback, and develop the reflective habits that deepen both their speaking and writing.