Plus, your students will never forget you. Your students and the world *will* be better off for your efforts. If developing empathy is also one of your goals, integrating the global goals into your work is the way to go. Foregoing these powerful elements is to ignore frameworks which elevate the value of Language A as an essential tool for navigating life – not just the DP exams. As a result, areas of exploration, concepts, global issues and core connections could be tokenised or neglected. Busy teachers could shy away from grappling with elements they deem non-essential for survival – a.k.a not content. Understandably, with the chaos and excitement of planning and teaching a new IB course, teachers can gravitate towards focusing on what they know and works – a.k.a content. Yet, the Global Issues offer a rich, meaningful and authentic Language A playground to develop these skills in. Yes, close analysis and creation of language and literature should always be foci. “Global Issues? This course is about language and literature – not history or science!” I hear some DP L&L teachers say. And this process begins in your classroom! They may even play a part in achieving the IB’s lofty goal of “making the world a better place.” When the DP exams are done in May 2021, this is the education that will remain. They also give the concept of international-mindedness a tangible textline. These give our curriculum real-world connections. The Global Issues offer one such pathway to achieve this goal. More than ever before, our turbulent world needs dispositions, understandings, knowledge and skills which can make a positive difference. Humans who care about each other and our planet. Humans who use language to voice their ideas for good, fearlessly. Through the language and literature we teach, we are also tasked to help our students become better humans. Yet, as teachers of this course, we have a purpose which goes beyond the academic and transgresses into the realm of our shared humanity. Global Issues: the beating heart of the DP Language A courseĮxploring the myriad forms of literature & language while developing the skills of analysis, writing, reading and speaking may be the bread and butter of what we do in Language A.
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