What's up with Local and Global Contexts in IB?

What's up with Local and Global Contexts when teaching IB DP ?

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Poll

__ % of my students regularly misunderstand written or verbal instructions in a way that SIGNIFICANTLY lowers their grade.

• 5% or more

• 10% or more

• 20% or more

• 30% or more

• What is a schema?

• How does context influence communication?

• What's are easy ways to add more local and global contexts?

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Key take aways

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​IB: Global and Local Contexts

DP adds to this with global + local contexts, placing a more complex understanding of self->family->community-> country -> world

DP

Students are introduced to Global contexts. Broad movements and trends eg: Global Warming, Globalization, Historical movements​ etc

MYP​

IB MYP V DP

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Expanding Schema is part of our job. It can't be done with a text book alone.

Without contextual skills.....​

Think of all the written examinations in which your students responded incorrectly because they didn’t fully comprehend the questions.

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Think of all the spoken instructions you have given for a task and students didn’t follow.

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Think of the times you set an essay topic. The responses were the same, bored you to tears.....​

​Take away

Syntagmatic ( based on system )	​Pradigmatic ( based on choices )
Grammar Rule: State verbs ( own, Love, hate) are not used in the continuous ( +ing )	​
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​"speaking language" ( a jingle )

American style​​

​Your classes may be missing something.....

​Systemic Functional Grammar

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• Using copra or example sentences to illustrate meaning.

• Videos.

• Connect to careers​

• Interview experts from different countries.

• Writing from different viewpoints. ​

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One way of planning a lesson..

​Context

Model

Deconstruction

Pair work

Individual Construction

Linking​

Susan Feez - Text Based Syllabus​

Take away: Students need a broad range of text types. At least 20% of the content should be awareness raising contextual type activities that are uncertain, debatable, and interpretive.

If not....

Understanding will be superficial

Responses will be limited

Students will find it harder to make friends in the target language

Students will be less motivated/ less engaged

Less practice in applying themselves to uncertain or complex problems​

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​But I don't have time!!!

​Checklist to be

completed

before a

writing task.

Contexts

Media

News

Music

Culture

Habits

Geography​

Gender roles

Formalities

Age etc​

and ​Communicate!

We subconsciously gather contexts....​

Poll

I myself speak and study a second language on a regular basis. ( Chinese in particular is useful for foreign staff ).

• No

• I study a little.

• I study most days

• I'm a devoted second language speaker and student.

"Give a written or verbal stimulus (problem, graph, document, song, movie abstract…) that leaves room for multiple interpretations and walk them through a discussion for the information it communicates. "

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Hey Andy.......----->​

IB: Global and Local Contexts

Tip 1# Add Complexity and Uncertainty

​If there is complexity or uncertainty in the piece you presented, the different approaches will activate your students.

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Who uses this type of tool? Where?

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What can you hear, see or smell ?​

IB: Global and Local Contexts

​Example: 'Warm up' Bigger picture method

What do you see here?

What is a vendor?

How is this item made? Who eats it?

Write down 3 things about this food.​

Go back to page 43 and think about

the factors of production. How do they

relate to this picture? ​

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​Bigger picture method

IB: Global and Local Contexts

"international-mindedness is not about degrading local contexts in expense to the global ones." On the contrary, it attempts to harmonize them by encouraging students “to learn more about their own culture and national identity as well as to be respectful and understanding of others, thus becoming global citizens” (Belal, 2017).

Blog: 100 Mentors

IB: Global and Local Contexts

Tips 2# Use Quora

​Use Quora

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"As a homework assignment, ask students to work on a subject-specific topic from two different standpoints: locally and globally. They have to discover their personal viewpoint but also try to walk in someone else’s shoes for tackling the same task."

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Get students to use a corpus​

​Awareness and appreciation raising

Students must be willing to engage with the grey areas of language. Encourage students to use a Corpus or a language examples to see shades of meaning. ​

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​As IB learners, it is important that students develop their skills through a universal perspective, one goes beyond the information that their textbook – or Google and YouTube – provide.

Text book heavy

Lecture Heavy / Teacher Talk Shouting/ Demanding/

Didactic / Punitive / Results based

Single viewpoint​ / One way

Black and white answers​

Planning is for teacher only

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Top Down

Context rich

Context Rich V Top down class

Students will use you as a model. Your methods will become their strategies.

Variety / Local & Global viewpoints

Rich content ( Realia / video etc) helps get complex subtexts and contexts.

Roleplays​ / Interpretation / Uncertainty / Open Discussion

Be transparent about planning

Open Ended

Other than the text book, youtube and google, how else could enhance subject delivery by adding contextual activities / content ? ( please list 3 ideas minimum below)

• The critical nature of expanding schema

• How context influences communication

• Gambits for adding context to classes​

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Key take aways

Hey thanks for listening....