AGIS Conference 2024 Potsdam

A series of interactive activities that ignite creativity, build teamwork, and solidify key business concepts. Help your students to work together to problem solve and understand key quantitative tools from the Business Management course.

Supercharge your starters by learning about the connections game. Get up and active and make decision trees out of PE equipment. Use Lego to demonstrate the different types of production methods. Problem solve and help a company that accidentally shredded their final accounts! Piece them back together in the right order and categories. Use the sweet side of capacity utilisation to physically and deliciously use this tool and if there’s time have a brain break with a solid game of tri-dominoes.

With a new syllabus and over 30,000 Business Management students worldwide, now is the perfect time to add some new methods to your teacher toolkit. It would be a great opportunity to network and establish some solid connections for Business Management within the AGIS network for moderation of IA’s and the sharing of resources.

Are you a lone wolf in your school's language department? Join this collaborative session tailored for educators of minority language A courses, or DP Self-taught coordinators who support and guide external language teachers. As the sole DP Japanese A teacher at my school, the absence of a moderation team has been posing unique challenges during the exam season. This one-hour session aims to bring together educators facing similar circumstances to discuss shared issues and co-create solutions.
During our interactive session, we will delve into the challenges of moderating exams solo and explore strategies to ensure fair and accurate exams. Participants will have the opportunity to share experiences, exchange ideas, and establish connections with fellow teachers, fostering a supportive network that extends beyond schools. The focus will also be on navigating GDPR-compliant data-sharing practices, ensuring the secure collaboration of exam materials.
Join us to transform the obstacles of solo moderation into opportunities for nationwide collaboration, ensuring a richer educational experience for both teachers and students alike.

What challenges do IBDP students face when it comes to accessing the curriculum? Do they feel supported in the pursuit of their individual academic goals?

At BBIS, our Grade 11 and 12 academic support model, known to students as the 'Academic Center for Excellence', was born from our efforts to reflect on these questions.

The ACE programme gives all Grade 11 and 12 students access to:
- One-on-one academic coaching with subject and inclusion specialists
- Workshops designed to help students fill skills gaps
- A growing collection of resources
- Leadership opportunities (student-led study groups)
- Enhanced teaching and learning through co-teaching.

We connected with educators from around the world, including the AGIS community, in the design and implementation of the ACE programme. We think AGIS is the perfect place to share what we have learned along the way— successes, lessons learned, and ongoing refinements.

Struggling to find listening materials to prepare students for the Paper 1 listening exam? Come join us!

This session will support DP Language Ab initio & Language B teachers to develop their own listening assessment materials that are specifically tailored to the DP Paper 1 Listening exams (any Language B such as French, Spanish, Mandarin, English, German etc).

Here's a brief outline of the session:

• An overview of the Paper 1 listening component, its structure and question types
• Discussion of listening resources & platforms 
• Hands-on activity: Participants to choose short audio file (I'd provide several) and create specific exam-type questions.

Participants will need to bring headphones.

Hope to see you there!

Conny

With the changes in the assessment, this session will help in breaking down internal assessment criteria for DP Business Management, which is crucial for both students and teachers. This workshop will provide a clear understanding of the particular requirements, criteria, and expectations associated with each assessment. This clarity is indispensable for producing top-notch work that adheres to the assessment criteria. Simultaneously, educators can employ this process to confirm that students grasp the assessment rubrics, objectives, and criteria, facilitating more effective guidance.

The Language B course in the Diploma Programme allows for a broad scope of potential
approaches in terms of course design, learning experiences and assessment, with no single best practice as such. The presenters of this workshop have spent numerous hours discussing how to structure and teach the course, and they have identified certain strategies that they believe are integral to an effective Language B course. The aim of this workshop is to share these “best practices” with participants, along with the thought processes that went into identifying them. These are of course suggestions only, and we are keen to hear interesting ideas that have worked well for others, so participants are encouraged to bring their own resources and suggestions along to share.

Building upon the successful session about the ToK Essay in Mathematics from AGIS 2023, this workshop aims to give teachers of ToK and Mathematics a detailed overview of the Knowledge Framework for Mathematics within the ToK course as well as providing Mathematics teachers in the DP specific opportunities to link their content to the ToK course in a way that fosters deeper understanding of both courses. During the session, participants will complete ToK activities that unpack the scope, methods, perspectives and ethics within the field of mathematics. In addition, specific mathematical activities derived from all 4 DP Mathematics courses will be unpacked and discussed with respect to their links to the ToK course and its assessment.