vacation time!

Dear All,

On behalf of the TOK teaching team, I would like to wish you all a restful yet stimulating long vacation.

Don't forget about all the outstanding tasks related to your IB learning - you will be doing some work on your extended essay, world literature assignment and - not least - your final TOK essay.

You have the prescribed titles, your last teacher spent some time with you discussing them, and so you have the opportunity to think carefully about which title to choose. This choice is one of the most important stages in producing a successful essay, so DON'T try to make an instant choice - if you do, this will very likely be a BAD choice. You need to spend some serious time thinking about what you can do with each of the titles before making any choice - we know from long experience that the titles that look initially appealing are often the most troublesome. Look carefully at the structure of each title. What are the key terms? How do they relate to the categories discussed in the TOK course? How much guidance does each of the titles give you? This varies.

We will have a bit more time in August to discuss the nature of the titles, but by all means go ahead and think about them for yourself now. Make some notes, do some exploration - look at the last thread below for some ideas about how to do this...

And allocate some time during the vacation to read and keep yourself abreast of things going on in the world. See you soon...