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Mission G(P)ossible: Operation Debate
The GP End is Near! Just 6 academic days left before the GP Exam arrives! The lesson in today’s post is perfect for wrapping up your final week of instruction or as a themed, Saturday Session event;...
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Growing & Razing an Argument: Strategies for Understanding Line of Reasoning
Zoinks! This post moved!! Yup, the content of this post has found a new home within the vast, online landscape we now call edPioneer! You can read it in full by clicking HERE. Happy Trails! Filed...
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Lending a ‘Hand’: Using Lenses to Narrow Essay Focus
Quarter 1 has a lot to do with getting your students acquainted with global issues, filling the “blank slate”–so to speak—with those basics that’ll lay the groundwork for deeper research later....
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Teaching ‘perspectives’ (vs. ‘lenses’)
Teacher: “Ok, teams, for your research, you’ll need to examine the issue through multiple perspectives. Mmm-kay?” Student (during presentation of research): “When I did my research from the...
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FREE Webinar: Implementing the ‘Inquiry Research’ Project
This Thursday, September 22… edPioneer is pleased to announce the launch of its FREE Webinar Series! For the first online exchange, I will talk with you about implementing the Inquiry Research...
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Essay Stockpiling: Build Your Arsenal of ‘Bomb’ Essays!
If you teach in the same school district as me, there are exactly 8 1/2 instructional days left before summer kicks in… Translation?! If you’re a first-time AICE: GP teacher, you have exactly 8 1/2...
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2014: GP Syllabus Updates
Happy 1st Day, GP Colleagues! I sure hope the first day back in the GP classroom treated you well! In honor of the new school year, I have a VIU…Very Important Update…regarding the new year… Starting...
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Ordering Enquiry Feedback from Cambridge
Lots of curiosity about ordering exam essays/feedback from Cambridge for teacher use, so thank you for inspiring today’s post! Here’s the information I gathered to share with you, thanks to the help...
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Cambridge “Best Practices”: June 2014
Interested in attending Cambridge’s “Best Practices” workshop this summer? Great news…I’m facilitating a two-day workshop for AICE: General Paper 8004! If you are interested in learning more about...
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UNICEF Tap Project
As I mentioned in my most recent post, my students are writing their final essay today…but we’ve taken essay writing to a WHOLE new GP level this time! If you are interested in having your students...
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