Lessons 1 - 2
Although I met the group briefly socially yesterday, today will be our first day together. I planned a lot for the summer and did very little and I sort of expect the same from them.
We will start with a short activity based on current news items - and see what kind of knowledge questions and TOK concepts we can draw from them. The refugee crisis is such a massive issue at the moment that I think it will be important and interesting to discuss from the perspective of 4 Areas of Knowledge: history, ethics, arts, religious belief systems (although we don't have RBS as part of our TOK curriculum)
We'll try to do this by applying the Ways of Knowing and the Knowledge framework.
- Emotion
- Faith
- Imagination
- Intuition
- Language
- Memory
- Reason
- Sense perception
At the end of the session we'll have individual discussions about the students' plans for their TOK presentations.
Wow. It was great to feel the buzz. There is a little bit of tension of course, the pressure is growing and we are still just feeling around.
ReplyDeleteWe had a good discussion about the refugee crisis from a TOK point of view and, although it was less structured than I was hoping, we did have an excellent discussion with some very important and interesting points
I think the students have a better idea now about what is expected in thei TOK presentations. In the next few lessons we will look at some TOK presentations and discuss them using the assessment criteria. This should help them prepare for their own presentations, too. We have a schedule:
Deadline for the cover sheet: 14 September
Rehearsal: 19 October
TOK Presentations: 22 October 13:30