Where to next?

Breakout group discussion toolkit

Below are resources and materials, as well as questions you may like to use to guide your discussion.

Some areas of investment to consider

If you are considering ways to scale your IB schoolwide adoption work? What might be some courses you could investigate? What will stakeholders want to know? When would be the best time?

1.Are there other aspects of an IB education that make sense to focus on, next? You might:

Dive deeper into Approaches to Teaching as an entire school
Explore the value of CAS for every student in the school
Unpack the IB approaches to assessment and integrate aspects of IB internal assessment into the non-IB courses you offer

2.Who among your school community communicate the IB with ease? How might others in the community feel better equipped to encourage students and parents?

3.If your teachers need more support for skill development, what type of plan might you put together to increase understanding and confidence?

4.Invest in a staff training plan to understand an aspect of the IB curriculum or use of varied inclusive instructional practices. How can you align the plan to the priorities published by your school or district leaders? Who can advocate for more collaborative planning time?

5.Develop a strategy to better understand why some educators perceptions of the DP and CP are out of sync with your school vision to include more students

6.Examine student achievement in the competitive course options for students and identify their purpose

7.Invest in student well-being and sense of self-efficacy for engaging in rigorous learning experiences.

8.Strategize to increase student interest in their learning: why are students disengaged? what are their concerns? what are they interested in? how can you articulate alignment between their interests and what the IB can offer them

9.What steps could be taken to narrow belief gaps and come together with a unified/shared vision and purpose

More resources to support the year ahead

Common Questions About Automatic Enrollment Policies for Advanced Courses (2024 - Education Trust)

Considering barriers to learning from multiple perspectives (PRC Materials)
Moving beyond labels to remove barriers to learning (PRC Materials)
Boosting learning engagement (.pdf)
Improving self-regulated learning skills (.pdf)

“Self-review framework” from the IB Guide to Inclusive Education: A resource for whole school development (Updated 2019)

The self-review framework helps schools begin addressing opportunities to frame whole school development through an inclusive education lens and through uniformed resources and nurture a culture of collaboration, mutual respect, support and problem solving.

IB WORKSHOPS

“Approaches to teaching and learning for DP/CP coordinators and pedagogical leaders” (Cat 3)

Discuss issues relating to implementing these approaches in their school context and exploration of how they might support teacher development.

“Assessment for learning in the DP/CP” (Cat 3)

Explore and increase understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of DP/CP assessments, develop lesson plans and units of instruction, and discuss understanding by design, backward design and the role of assessment in backward design.

“Strategies to increase DP/CP cohort sizes” (Cat 3)

School leaders, coordinators, and counsellors understand and use strategies aimed at building an equitable, inclusive and accessible DP/CP that results in an increase student participation and success in the DP and CP.