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Nutrition: what do you eat? How do you teach kids about food?
Food Chain by The Slushey One licensed by CC BY NC Nutrition is a big focus in our curriculum at UNIS Hanoi. I teach this unit to Grade 7 students every year and the challenge is to figure out what to teach and how to spend our precious 10 hours or so. The last two years, I decided to do too much take a different direction and try and step out into some new territory or to share familiar topics in a new way. My inspiration came a little from watching Jamie Oliver’s TED talks speech where he was awarded a prize from TED for his work. If you haven’t…
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Giving Feedback on a Presentation
Speech bubble by Alice Bartlett CC BY NC How do you evaluate your Presentations? I have struggled with finding meaning from student presentations especially if they aren’t very good. How do you face public humiliation in the moment of knowing that what you presented was not up to par? And why should this process of giving feedback only be up to the teacher? I have worked with index cards, asking students to confer with peers and just asking for verbal feedback but often this becomes teacher directed and students choose very trivial focus points (eg. “They had good slides”) and it can be hard to bring out meaning to the…
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Health assessment
Eat five fruits or vegetables a day by Stefan licensed by CC NC SA So, this year our PE department will drop two of our school-used/developed Criterion and focus on one only [1. We have decided to do this as we don’t teach enough lessons/unit to make it worth having a summative test or assignment. Some units align very nicely with other PE units – like Fitness – and so we have decided to use the Criteria A (MYP) Use of Knowledge rather than a school-only criteria.]. This criterion has to do with social skills/interaction in the classroom and communication. The question we are trying to answer is how do…