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Thinking out loud...

Diving into the guide

3/5/2015

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I've had a really interesting year. In some ways, it's been the best year of my life. This was, after all, the year that I adopted my son. In other ways, though, it's been the worst year of my life. Two days after enduring a trip to my son's village - in 500+ pollution - to renounce his citizenship, we lost our home in a house fire. So this is another reason why the site hasn't been updated very much. The other reason is that I haven't had the time or motivation to really, REALLY dive into the new MYP guide. Last week, though, the school gave us plenty of time during our INSET week to really focus on the guide and to start changing all our units. So at the moment, I'm reading "Making Thinking Visible," by Ron Ritchhart. He came to our school last year for a conference and was really inspirational. Many of our teachers have latched onto his great work and I'm seeing really fantastic examples of deep thinking throughout the school. It's also time to tweak the parent handbooks, so I'm using this opportunity to go through and totally overhaul all my work. Perfect timing, since I'm going to a Job-a-Like in Shanghai on Monday. I'm going to take my curriculum overhaul document with me and see what people say. I've got questions... like...
1. Do debatable inquiry questions tend to start off as yes or no?
2. What is the difference between C2 and C3 in level 3? 
3. If A and D are paired, then how can you differentiate between the emotional response to a stimulus and the intellectual processing that went behind it? (Thus the Ron Ritchhart...)
Here's my first draft... please feel free to give me any and all comments. I'm not precious about it!
music_units_1516.pdf
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    My name is Amy Keus. I teach MYP and DP music at Nanjing International School. I used to teach Early Years and PYP, before the fabulous Bonnie joined me. If you enjoy my blog, would you please go to Facebook and Pinterest and like / follow my pages?

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