1.+Monday

=Monday= session 1: 9-10.30 session 2: 10.50- 12.30 session 3: 13.20-15.00 session 4: 15.20-17.00

Session 1 - Introductions
Ice Breaker - progressions Introductions - The IB Learner profile - [] Task - create a stickman display fro the 10 traits

A short presentation of the IB Overview

Session 2 - The IB
Puzzle - The Twiddled Bolts

Time designed to familiarise ourselves with the IB HL & SL courses and its philosophy. Cutting and sorting syllabus activity - what goes where? , look for pre-requisites, difficult topics

Possible models for teaching the IB HL/SL course

Session 3 - Learning is Doing - Developing a Problem Solving Approach through Investigations
Puzzle - I am a Number

This will almost certainly take 2 sessions and will look at the following techniques
 * Secializing
 * Generalising
 * Opening up a Problem
 * Convincing yourself & others

The investigations we will look at will be: fraction sums, remainders, product of odd numbers, constant perimeter, tetrahedron, sum of cubes, ...

Session 4
Puzzle - Guess the diagonal (see bottom of page) This session could well be moved to Tuesday if Session 3 takes up 2 sessions. An introduction to Graphical Display Calculators - TI84+, Casio 9000 series, Nspire, ...

Teachers will download the Ti and Casio virtual calculators and this will be a hands on session(s) (again this may run into 2 sessions) Download virtual TI Download virtual Casio 9000

The main focus will be to gain familiarity with the TI84+ series using the Ti emulator



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