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Cat: 3 | TOK: Helping students write strong TOK essays and assessing their work

18 - 20 Nov 2024 | VIRTUAL - 08:30-13:30 UK time
The International Baccalaureate (IB)
STANDARD FEE £695.00

(+20% UK VAT applicable for UK schools only)

Workshop Format

Featuring 12 hours of intensive, live interactive virtual workshops plus up to 3 hours offline; over 3 consecutive days with 4 hours of synchronous workshop per day.  Fully authorised and certified by the IB.  Delivered virtually by IB-trained expert workshop leaders on ZOOM.

Timings: 09:00-13:30 UK time each day with a pre-workshop set-up meeting starting at 08:30 UK time on Day 1.

About the workshop

This workshop is designed for experienced theory of knowledge (TOK) teachers, Diploma Programme (DP) teachers who may help students with their TOK essays and assessments, school administrators and DP coordinators with an interest in TOK assessment.

We will explore new strategies to help students elevate their ToK essay-writing and thinking skills, regarding selection of examples, argumentation, and presentation and evaluation of different perspectives. We shall take a look at ‘global impression marking’ and you will try your hand at assessing student work under the guidance of an experienced examiner.

You will learn strategies that help students master the challenging tasks of linking arguments to the prescribed title, to examples, and to areas of knowledge.

Workshop Leader(s)
Richard (Ric) Sims

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About your booking

Once you have made your booking, you will receive an automatically generated BOOKING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and an invoice (or a receipted invoice if you have paid by credit card). Shortly after that, once we have processed your booking, you will receive an email from us with further information.

Once we have confirmed that the workshop will go ahead we will send you a confirmation email and an information pack which tells you everything that you need to know about joining your sessions. The links to join your sessions will be sent to you by email around 2 days before your sessions start.

If you have any queries regarding your booking, please contact us at admin@ibicus.org.uk