THE COURSE SYLLABUS

SESSION 1: Getting organized for year 2 – September 2015

  • Reflection on year 1, setting intentions, goals and growth mindset
  • Updating and maintaining your electronic and paper organizational system
  • Taking inventory of your status in the programme
  • Using IB rubrics and command words to improve your efficiency
  • Concentrating for long periods of time
  • Stress management techniques

SESSION 2: Playing the IB game, time management and taming the ostrich! – October 2015

  • Playing the IB game – how to use the guides and command terms to study strategically
  • Causes of procrastination and strategies for motivating yourself and avoiding paralysis
  • Active learning strategies and techniques for systematic independent revision
  • Time for supervised independent study time with support and guidance*
  • Individualized, one-to-one coaching time for each participant
  • Stress management techniques

*Please note that the aim the coaching is to provide structure and supervision for project completion and any guidance given must be in accordance with the IB regulations.

SESSION 3: Academic writing skills – November 2015

  • Writing skills for the TOK essay and IAs
  • Creating a revision plan for mock exams
  • Active learning strategies and techniques for systematic independent revision
  • Time for supervised independent study time with support and guidance
  • Individualized, one-to-one coaching time for each participant
  • Stress management techniques

SESSION 4: Mock Exams – December 2015

  • Staying motivated over the Christmas holidays
  • Strategies for active, engaged and independent revision for mock exams
  • Test-taking strategies revisited
  • Time for supervised independent study time with support and guidance
  • Individualized, one-to-one coaching time for each participant
  • Stress management techniques

SESSION 5: Growth vs Fixed mindsets – January 2016

  • Using test results as feedback for exam revision
  • Is your mindset holding you back or moving you forward?
  • The relationship between goals, intentions, motivation and success
  • Time for supervised independent study time with support and guidance
  • Individualized, one-to-one coaching time for each participant
  • Stress management techniques

SESSION 7: Exam Revision Plan – February 2016

  • Design a revision plan for the May 2016 exams
  • Active strategies for engaged learning
  • Growth mind set and understanding your procrastination profile
  • Concentrating for long periods of time
  • Individualized coaching time for each participant
  • Stress management techniques

SESSION 8: Staying Motivated and Taming the Ostrich – March 2016

  • Following your revision plan
  • Strategies for coping with procrastination continued
  • The revision cycle: preparing questions to ask in class
  • Time for supervised independent study time with support and guidance
  • Individualized, one-to-one coaching time for each participant
  • Stress management techniques

SESSION 9: Time management for exam preparation, exam taking techniques and taming your inner ostrich! – April 2016

  • Time management and following your revision plan continued
  • Exam preparation and exam taking techniques continued
  • Using IB rubrics and command words strategically continued
  • Strategies for coping with procrastination continued
  • Concentrating for long periods of time
  • Individualized coaching time for each participant
  • Stress management techniques

SESSION 10: The countdown: exam preparation and test-taking techniques continued – April/May 2016

  • Time management and following your revision plan continued
  • Exam preparation and exam taking techniques continued
  • Strategies for coping with procrastination continued
  • Concentrating for long periods of time
  • Individualized coaching time for each participant
  • Stress management techniques