The Role of Command Terms in the MYP

Luiz Mello

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About the Talk

Command Terms are omnipresent in every MYP classroom! Yet, their true power is rarely recognized. Join experienced MYP educator and leader, Luiz Mello as he uncovers three key ways to use the MYP Command Terms in your classroom. Go beyond the semantics and understand how Command Terms can be an invaluable tool to help students set expectations and reflect on their work. Through examples, discover how to use them to supercharge assessments. And finally, explore how Command Terms can aid with vertical alignment.

Key objectives include:

Using command terms to guide student expectations and reflection on performance
Connecting learning with assessment via command terms
Unpacking command terms as a tool for vertical alignment

Speaker

Luiz Mello

MYP educator

Disclaimer - This event is organised independently of and not endorsed by the IB. Toddle’s events and webinars are organised to enable an exchange of practices and ideas within the educator community and are not a replacement for official IB workshops. Views and opinions expressed by the speakers are their personal views and should not be construed as official guidance by the IB. Please seek assistance from your school’s IB coordinator and/or refer to official IB documents before implementing shared ideas and strategies in your classroom.

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Luiz Mello

Luiz Mello is an aspiring school leader with over 12 years of experience in the MYP and DP programmes. After teaching in Brazil, Serbia, Egypt, and China, he is now on sabbatical in Cambodia, where he will start teaching at the International School of Phnom Penh in August. He is also a workshop leader and assistant examiner for DP Biology. His main interests in Education are Design Thinking and personalized education.

Curriculum Planning, Leadership

The Role of Command Terms in the MYP

Command Terms are omnipresent in every MYP classroom! Yet, their true power is rarely recognized. Join experienced MYP educator and leader, Luiz Mello as he uncovers three key ways to use the MYP Command Terms in your classroom. Go beyond the semantics to understand how Command Terms can be an invaluable tool to set student expectations and give students a shared language to reflect on their work. Through examples, discover how to use them to supercharge assessments. And finally, explore how Command Terms can aid with vertical alignment.