Day 7: TOK (12)

Didn't write down the plan this time because it was all laid out in the Edmodo classroom.
I thought I had put together a relatively comprehensive and interesting step-by-step guide to the TOK Presentation for grade 12. It didn't seem to work. I'm not sure there is anything that woks in this class at the moment.
Interesting - I sort f expected it to be more harmonious and effective the way we work together but we don't.
I don;t want to teach in the sense that I don't want to tell them what they need to think, I jyst need to help them find their thoughts - well that's not happening.
Introducing force and strictness - I don't believe in it and they know it and I couldn't consistently maintain it anyway.
We're only two weeks into the school year and I already feel like I'm losing my grounding and resolve and all my efforts seem to be wearing thin pretty fast.
I'm not sure where all this is leading.

Day 2: TOK (12)

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.