Tuesday, 10 April 2018

TALKING TOK’ - Collaboration in IBDP

The collaborative session was an opportunity for facilitators across disciplines to revisit central concepts and tools in Theory of Knowledge. The session aimed to empower facilitators with a deeper understanding of how TOK tools and concepts could be linked with their respective subjects.

The collaborative session began with facilitators articulating why TOK was needed across the DP through 6-word headlines. The exploration of the TOK thinking skills, saw facilitators work in their respective Groups to link specific skills to concepts and topics within their disciplines.


After working through a checklist of indicators of what characterizes a Knowledge Question in TOK, the facilitators played a fun round of an interactive virtual quiz on Kahoot, to assess their own understanding.

The session also saw facilitators discuss other important TOK concepts such as the acquisition & production of knowledge, personal and shared knowledge, as well as the Areas of Knowledge, disciplines and the Ways of Knowing. The facilitators also chalked out posters of how the Knowledge Framework could be used to strengthen students’ exploration of the different Areas of Knowledge. The session also addressed facilitators questions about assessing student work in TOK.


The collaborative session ended on a reflective note, with facilitators agreeing that the best way to strengthen TOK in the DP was through strengthening collaboration across and within subject groups through TOK!

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