DP2 February – April 2023 Overview

Group 1: Language A:

Chinese Language and Literature

 

Teachers: Sophia Suo

Unit Title: How does literature analysis promote our communication?

Concepts

KC: Transformation

RC: Context, Contrast

 

ATL skills: Thinking Skills & Communication Skills

 

Help your child by:

1. improving writing and thinking skills during literature analysis
2. learning a wide range of methods to form ideas
3. mastering appropriate structures to logically communicate in essays.
4. Accumulating terminologies and applying them in correct contexts.

Group 1: Language A:

English Language and Literature

 

Teacher:

Mr. Ridolfo

Unit Title:

Exploring Non-Literary Texts: Paper 1 and unseen texts

Breaking it Down: Writing Effective Paper 2 Responses

Concepts:

Communication

Creativity

Perspective

 

ATL Skills:

Communication—Communication

Self-Management—Organization

Thinking—Critical Thinking

 

Help Your Child By:

Ensure they are reading and suggest that they read from a variety of genres (fiction) and sources (non-fiction). GoodReads.com is a great resource to find literary texts that they might be interested in. As they read, they should reflect on how they feel and contemplate how the author made them feel that way.

Group 1: Language A:

Korean Language and Literature

 

Teacher: Mr. Keon Yang

Unit Title: Reflecting on identity

 

Concepts:

KC: Identity

RC: Voice, point of view

 

ATL Skills: Self-management skills

 

Help Your Child By:

• Encourage your kids to think of their future based on what they have dreamed of.

Group 2: Language B: English/Chinese

Chinese B

Teachers:

Carrie Quan

 

Language B English

Teacher: Cathy Qiang

 

Mandarin Ab initio

Teacher: Jasmin Sun

Chinese B

Unit Title: Paper 1 and Paper 2; Text Types

Concepts:

KC: Purpose. Audience

RC: Context, Meaning, Variation

 

ATL skills: Thinking Skills, Self-Management Skills, Affective Skills

 

Help your child by:

1. Cope with pressure and stress properly
2. Arrange daily life wisely, use time properly
3. Being balanced for every subject
4. Keep practicing Paper 1 and Paper 2 required skills: writing, listening and reading
5. Master Chinese words, expressions, sentences in daily life

 

English B

Unit Title: Human Ingenuity – Scientific and Technological Innovation

Concepts:

KC: Change

RC: Communication, Purpose and Audience

 

ATL skills:

• Thinking skills (formulate a reasoned argument to support their opinion)
• Communication skills (read and write to understand different text type)
• Self-management skills (revise and improve work submitted)

 

Help your child by:

1. Complete work on time
2. Keep reading on regular basis
3. Master appropriate structures and conventions to communicate in different text types.

 

 

Mandarin Ab initio

Unit Title:
To be open-minded Through Culture Experience

Concepts:

KC: Purpose, Audience

ATL skills:

Thinking skills (Choose appropriate text types in paper 1 based on understanding of writing purpose and audience)

Communication skills (Convey and revive messages effectively)

Help your child by:

1. Check if student can complete work on time.
2. Make sure student practice Paper 1 writing and Paper 2 reading in exam condition.
3. Help students balance among different subjects

Business Management

 

Teacher:  Eva Liu

Unit Title:  Unit 5 – Operations Management

Concepts: Change, Culture, Ethics, Globalization, Innovation and Strategy

 

ATL skills: critical thinking, synthesis of theory and data, analytical thinking, research, writing

 

Help your child by:

1. Share your experiences with operations at the workplace and get your child to discuss the type of operational management strategy that your company is using

2. Encourage your child to watch videos on productions of different products (I.e. How It’s Made), consider watching them together and discuss where bottlenecks may happen and how such problems may be addressed

Group 4: Biology:

 

Teacher:

Unit Title: Metabolism (Revision)-After mock examinations

Essential understanding:

Protein synthesis-Proteins are formed by transcription and translation.

Different types of RNA-mRNA, rRNA and tRNA with structures and specifications for protein synthesis.

Metabolism-Glycolysis, Kreb’s cycle and Electron transport Chain.

 

ATL skills:

• Thinking

In this unit, we will

• Help students consider the differences in sequence of protein synthesis in prokaryotes and eukaryotes

• Communication
  • In this unit, we will
    • Use crosswords for reinforcement of vocabulary
  • Research
    • In this unit, we will
      • Online research on databases and simulations on making proteins.

 

Help your child by:

Encouraging them to complete tasks on time and review what has been completed in the class.

Chemistry;

 

Teacher: Kelvin Tian

Unit Title: Organic Chemistry

Essential understandings:

Organic chemistry deals with carbon compounds. Organic compounds are numerous and varied but can be divided into subgroups based upon functional groups which themselves give rise to representative physical and chemical properties. Reaction pathways can be classified and used to synthesise specific organic compounds.

 

ATL skills:

Thinking

• In this unit, we will
  • ask open questions
  • set students a task which required higher-order thinking skills (such as analysis or evaluation)
  • help students to make their thinking more visible (for example, by using a strategy such as a thinking routine)

Help your child by:

Encourage the students to take more responsibility for their own learning, make a plan for the reviewing of the final exam and live a balanced life.

Physics:

 

Teacher: C Rothwell

Unit Title: Astrophysics

Concepts: Space and Time

 

ATL skills: Thinking skills

 

Help your child by: Encouraging them to review syllabus content and contact me when they don’t understand.

Group 5: Mathematical Analysis and Interpretation

 

Teacher: C Rothwell

Unit Title: Calculus

Concepts: Change

 

ATL skills: Thinking skills

 

Help your child by: Encouraging them to review course content.

Group 5:

 

Mathematical Analysis and Approaches SL

 

Teachers:

Sky Du

Unit Title:
DP Exam Preparation

 

This month we will finish DP Mock Exam and then we take a reflective approach to learning (ATL) and develop skills, techniques, and strategies for self-directed learning to prepare for final DP exam.

 

Help your child by:

Encouraging a balanced lifestyle and asking them to seek help from teachers whenever available. Make a personal schedule for preparing exams.

Group 5:

Mathematical Analysis and Approaches HL

 

Teachers:

Mr. Tanapat Treyanurak

Unit Title:
MOCK Exam Preparation

 

This month we take a reflective approach to learning (ATL) and develop skills, techniques, and strategies for self-directed learning.

 

Help your child by:

Encouraging a balanced lifestyle. A blend of a full night’s sleep, proper nutrition, and physical exercise will increase the effectiveness of each study session.

Group 6: Visual Arts:

 

Teacher: Scott Ramon

Unit Title:
Self Directed Series

 

• Internal Assessment
• Exhibition
  • A: Coherent body of works
  • B: Technical competence
  • C: Conceptual qualities
  • D: Curatorial practice

 

• External Assessment
• Process portfolio
  • A: Skills, techniques and processes
  • B: Critical investigation
  • C: Communication of ideas and intentions
  • D: Reviewing, refining and reflecting
  • E: Presentation and subject-specific language

 

ATL skills: Self Management, Research, Thinking, Social

 

Help your child by:

Please have them stay on task. We are coming to the close to our final exhibition, the submission of our process pages , and Comparative Studies. Ask them about their current progress, themes in their work and ideas about presenting their final work.

Help your student maintain a daily routine to document their ideas, sketches, thoughts, experiments, feelings, and observations about the world around them. They should keep a daily record in their process journal/ sketchbook/ visual diary.  Ask your student, “What is art and what can art be?” Engage in conversations about what you SEE everyday. It could be architecture, graphics on television, newspaper layout with text and image, car designs, colors that are used that affect our behaviors in advertisements, forms we  encounter, and of course art that we experience online or in a book. Also take your student to museums and galleries.

English Theory of Knowledge

 

Teacher:

Mr. Ridolfo

Unit Title:

The TOK Essay: Exploring Real Life Situations

 

Knowledge Framework:

Scope, Perspective, Methods & Tools, Ethics

 

ATL skills:

Self Management

Communication

Thinking

 

Help your child by:

Discuss the subject and let them share what they are learning – in this way they will review what they are discussing in class and you can also share your opinions on certain issues with them. They will thus develop different perspectives regarding real-life situations

Chinese Theory of Knowledge

 

Teacher:

Unit Title:

The TOK Essay

 

Knowledge Framework:

Scope, Perspective, Methods & Tools, Ethics

 

ATL skills:

Thinking skills

Self-management skills

Research skills

 

Help your child by:

• to encourage students to reflect on the central question, “How do we know that?”, and to recognize the value of asking that question
• to expose students to ambiguity, uncertainty and questions with multiple plausible answers
• to encourage students to be more aware of their own perspectives and to reflect critically on their own beliefs and assumptions
• to engage students with multiple perspectives, foster open-mindedness and develop intercultural understanding

CAS

 

Teacher:

Kevin McGarry

Unit Title: CAS Celebration

ATL skills: Self-management, communication

 

Help your child by:

The DP2 CAS students have participated in many various activities through the challenging pandemic. The final interviews are being completed and the CAS course will come to a conclusion.

 

Ask your child about their most memorable experiences and how they’ve challenged themselves through CAS.

ESS

 

Teacher:  Sunny Si

Unit Title:
Human systems and resource use

 

Concepts:

Relationship

 

ATL skills:

Thinking and research

 

Help your child by:

Remind them to review regularly.

Encourage the students to enhance self-management skill and read news or articles about the environmental issues to accumulate the real life examples.