Year 10 IB Diploma Preparation Course Guide 2023

STRUCTURE Semester 1

Semester 2

TOK CONCEPTS

Thinking for Yourself

 Introduction to the 12 TOK Concepts  Investigating issues

 Introduction to TOK  ECREE  Challenging versus confirming or bias  Words Matter  Perspectives and Truth  Escaping our Eco Chambers  Eyeballs on the screen

TOK THEMES

 Introduction to: What are TOK THEMES?

INTRODUCTION:

 Hidden Agendas  Error Blindness  Marshmallow Thinking  Us & Them  Faces in the Cloud  Blinded by the Sun

 How do we know?

Big Questions Unit • FOUNDATIONS “What is TOK, and why do we study it?” • VALUES “How does our knowledge about the world inform the way we construct our values?” • SPIN “How is our understanding of the world influenced by the way knowledge is communicated?” • PERSPECTIVES “How do our perspectives and biases shape our knowledge about the world?” • CREATIVITY “How is new knowledge about the world created?” • EXPERTS “How do we become discerning knowers?”

ASSESSMENT

In Year 10 Introduction to TOK, students complete two summative assessments. Summative assessments Semester 1 Weighting Semester 2

Weighting

Multimodal Presentation

50%

Essay

50%

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