IB English Guys

29/04/2024

Grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with English Schools Foundation (ESF) in Hong Kong this past weekend!

Delivering Friday's EdTech Connect keynote was an incredible experience. We’re thankful to ESF for inviting us to share insights on ethically integrating AI into classrooms. The discussions around various use cases were truly inspiring.

Saturday’s IB English sessions were equally rewarding, and leading such an outstanding group of teachers was a sincere pleasure. Their passion for helping students achieve their potential was palpable, and the entire experience was one of the most energizing experiences David Giles and I have had since starting IB English Guys.

Wow…what a weekend!

11/04/2024

We're pleased to announce a new Teacher Assessment Pack! This resource is over 400 pages long and includes over 50 sample responses for IB Lang/Lit.

Please note that solutions to ALL past papers for the current curriculum are included!

We hope you find this useful as we strive to continue on our mission to support as many teachers as possible.

Dave and Andrew

https://ibenglishguys.com/product/teacher-assessment-pack-paper-1-and-2/

08/04/2024

We're pleased to offer two FREE Study Sessions for students (and teachers) for the upcoming IBDP English A: Language and Literature exams. Our max is 3000 students per session, and we're nearly there!

Sessions are April 12-14th. The registration page will display the time for your respective time zone. Share widely, and see you soon!

Register for FREE at https://www.revisionvillage.com/study-sessions/

17/01/2024

Our students are enjoying this “Creative Task” from our recent Barbie and A Doll’s House units. Let’s remember that there’s more to this course than the “formal” IB assessments! Please feel free to make a copy and modify this assignment for your needs. Enjoy!

16/01/2024

This video demonstrates how to use AI to quickly synthesize student data and provide feedback that matters. Let’s leverage this tool, streamline our work, and get students “unstuck” in their learning.

This video demonstrates how to use AI to synthesize student data and provide whole-class feedback in minutes.Free Document:https://docs.google.com/document/d...

10/01/2024

We hope you enjoy this free AI for High School English Teacher Resource Pack. It offers use cases, prompts, and links to sample work. If you’ve been wondering how to integrate AI into your teaching, this resource is for you!

This resource is available now and will be housed on our new website - Lang Lit Guys - launching later this month. Lang Lit Guys will offer skills-based content aimed at a non-IB audience. In the future, we’ll continue to make content for both Lang Lit Guys and IB English Guys as we continue our mission “to help as many people as we can.”

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ItzedrR_vZokqyZmLen7FccO1GZK-3qltIkiStqnBJI/edit =h.5bk2bhkhyr42

14/11/2023

Are you using AI with your students yet? This video explains how we use AI to help HS English students with writing.
https://youtu.be/LIHKI0JxflI?si=WKvAB_eEci1uH8qT

09/10/2023

We really enjoyed delivering the Paper 1 and Paper 2 workshops this past weekend. Big thanks to all the participants and their great energy!

If you missed this round, be sure to visit our Workshops page and register for the Individual Oral and/or Paper 2 on November 11th!

https://ibenglishguys.com/

21/09/2023

Hi colleagues,

We hope you find our recent summative assessment feedback lesson useful. It can be adopted for many contexts and is in response to the changing ways our students are interacting with generative AI. Rather than taking the “fear” route, we are trying to embrace the technology and teach our students to use it in an ethical way. Feedback welcome.

https://tinyurl.com/summativefeedback

Also, we released video five in our “Paper 2 - Start to Finish Series” on YouTube and on our website. The eight-part series uses the short stories A Family Supper (Ishiguro) and Stones (T. Findley) to lead students through the entire Paper 2 process. This could be a great mini-unit for your students or used for independent study. We’re almost done and expect to complete the series in the next 3 weeks.

Thanks for the continued support, and best of luck with your teaching!

Andrew and Dave
IB English Guys

Using Generative AI to Enhance Our Work Now that we’ve written our Antigone assessment, let’s take a moment to stop, reflect, and make some important decisions to self-guide our learning. Remember - you have the power to control your progress, and generative AI can be a powerful writing assist.....

27/08/2023

We've been successful in leveraging generative AI and writing feedback for high school English students. We're happy to share this document and hope it helps others on their AI journey.

Writing Feedback and Generative AI We love Writer’s Workshops. Not only do students get dedicated class time for writing, but they also experience 1:1 conferences with their teacher about how to move learning forward. However, the reality of large class sizes, scheduling conflicts, and many ot...

15/08/2023

We’ve been thinking a lot about AI, student agency, personalized learning, and the future of high school English. We’re pleased to share this lesson plan that leverages generative AI as a personal learning assistant for high school English students. Make a copy, modify, and try it with your students. It’s an exciting time to be an educator!

Homework 1: Student Agency, Personalized Learning, and Generative AI As educators, we know what research says about the benefits of student agency and personalized learning. In fact, any of you who have worked 1:1 with a great teacher or tutor understands the power of instruction that is “just ...

07/08/2023

To kick off the school year, we've just released our IBDP English A Toolkit for students. This powerful resource is loaded with key skills and strategies for Paper 1, Paper 2, IO, and Higher Level Essay. Students and teachers, this toolkit will be your guide for the entire 2 years of the program!

https://ibenglishguys.com/for-students/