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This site contains everything you need to establish and build the IB Career-related Programme in your context. Your one stop shop for all things CP. Teaching Personal and Professional Skills? Looking for a reflective project process supported every step of the way? We have it covered. Furthermore, with an emphasis on explicit development of all the approaches to teaching and learning, you can be assured of the pedagogical quality and relevancy of all these resources.
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This site starts with the background to the CP and how it works before taking you through the key core areas
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Beginning the PPS course
After the intense focus on authorisation, it can sometimes come as a little surprising that we finally get to teach this course. Let's start with 'the mothership' - PPS. You've got the outline but what...
The Personal Professional Skills course lies at the heart of the CP and is the fulcrum for the whole course. Here you will find suggestions for mapping out the start of the course, each key theme explored in detail with supporting lessons.
Personal Development
The personal development of the student is clearly paramount in the CP. This page introduces the theme for students to find their motivation, vision and 'buy-in' they need for their CP course and life...
Intercultural Understanding
Students explore the significance of cultural identity and diversity as the ability to understand and appreciate multiple cultural perspectives leads to highly effective and empathetic people within personal...
Effective Communication (ATL)
Being an effective communicator is a key capability for the workplaces of the future. This page introduces this theme and demonstrates different directions it can be taken in. New for Autumn 2020 are...
Thinking Processes (ATL)
Students need to develop and be able to utilise a wide range of thinking skills to be able to thrive. This page introduces this theme and demonstrates different directions it can be taken in. Furthermore,...
Applied Ethics
The IB learner profile characteristic of 'principled' requires students to develop responsibility not only for their actions but the consequences as well. Applied Ethics is most immediately associated...
Topic Pages that take a project based learning approach to the PPS themes
Responding to change
The ongoing global pandemic has brought to the forefront of young people's minds that change on a mass scale can happen seemingly overnight. What can we learn from ways 'leaders' have responded locally,...
Interviews and the ethical employee
The notion of an interview can be a scary prospect because it symbolises a step into the unknown and very much about risk-taking. At the heart of any interview scenario is being able to answer and ask...
Understanding 'Truth'
Here, we start to chip away at the idea of truth and how finding it in today's world demands highly developed critical thinking tools. Whilst the intention is to provide sources to prompt inquiry from...
Are you coordinating the Reflective Project?
The reflective project pages are designed to support the process of the reflective project systemmatically from start to finish. Just some examples here from the start, middle and end of the project process.
The Process
It can be very easy to read the criteria of the Reflective Project and see their main function primarly to mark the end product. However, they indicate the actual process students will be going on as...
Ethical dimensions, issues and dilemmas.
Beore students, can find a suitable ethical issue and dilemma to analyse critically at the centre of the reflective project process, teachers need to feel comfortable tackling this area. On this page,...
Giving feedback
This is the most asked question when it comes to the drafting stage of the reflective project. Perhaps it should come as a relief to supervisors that they are not there to correct spelling, punctuation...
Are you wanting to develop skills more broadly for the Reflective Project?
The reflective project requires skills that start developing with their DP and CRS subjects but comes to fruition in this part of the core. Lessons that explicitly address skill development follow the reflective project process section and directly cross reference the IB's approaches to teaching and learning.
Ethical Thinking
At the heart of ethical thinking is the ability to consider the dynamics of people, actions and consequences in a balanced way. Developing ethical thinking is a complex process that takes time not just...
Reflective Thinking
Reflection is generally seen as an exercise in looking back on what has been done. The part that is missed out is to use this knowledge to shape what can be done in the future. This is how reflection...
Critical Thinking
Critical thinking can sound scary and unattainable for students but it is a lot more accessible than they imagine. Returning to the learner profile to consider the inquirer and communicator can prompt...
Writing skills
Irrespective of which option the student chooses to take, they will have to utilise writing skills for the reflective project. This can be daunting to anticipate; however educators can take advantage...
Research skills (ATL)
An open-minded and adaptable approach to researchStudents developing research skills early on can help them quickly ascertain whether their intended research question and area will work; there are many...
Planning and process management (ATL)
The student's planning skills, throughout the reflective project experience, must not to be overlooked. This ensures that the process does not just become about the final piece but is seen as an opportunity...
Self assessment
The stage between between receiving feedback from their supervisor on their only draft and producing the final piece can often lose momentum, especially when there is a long summer holiday in between....
