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INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE [email protected] COURSE OVERVIEW Quarter 1: Introduction & “Arguments” | Internal Assessment • Internal & External Assessments, Extended Essay • the nature of knowledge • persuasion • controversies • Epistemology, Math, Logic, Emotion, Ethics Quarter 2: “Methods” | Internal Assessment | Extended Essay • developments in science and technology • research in Science • current social/global problems • Natural Sciences, Human Sciences, Sense Perception Quarter 3: “Stories” | External Assessment | Extended Essay • developments/practices in any of the arts • historical investigations with present day implications • History, Fine Arts, Performing Arts, Language Arts, Imagination, Memory, Language Quarter 4: “Purposes” | External Assessment | Extended Essay • social issues, moral / ethical perspectives • religious and cultural beliefs, practices, conflict, etc. • Ethics, Religious Knowledge Systems, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Intuition, Faith Unit X: “Known Unknowns” COURSE DESCRIPTION How is knowledge… • sought? • acquired? • evaluated? • constructed? GOALS Students should become aware of the interpretative nature of knowledge… • WHAT DO YOU KNOW? • Facts • Concepts • Procedures • Metacognition • HOW DO YOU KNOW? • Language • Emotion • Sense Perception • Reason • Imagination • Intuition • Faith • Memory THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE MR. DAVID N. CHUNG VALENCIA HIGH SCHOOL, PLACENTIA YORBA LINDA USD, ROOM 401
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INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE
COURSE OVERVIEW Quarter 1: Introduction & “Arguments” | Internal Assessment • Internal & External Assessments, Extended Essay • the nature of knowledge • persuasion • controversies • Epistemology, Math, Logic, Emotion, Ethics
Quarter 2: “Methods” | Internal Assessment | Extended Essay • developments in science and technology • research in Science • current social/global problems • Natural Sciences, Human Sciences, Sense Perception
Quarter 3: “Stories” | External Assessment | Extended Essay • developments/practices in any of the arts • historical investigations with present day implications • History, Fine Arts, Performing Arts, Language Arts, Imagination,
Memory, Language
Quarter 4: “Purposes” | External Assessment | Extended Essay • social issues, moral / ethical perspectives • religious and cultural beliefs, practices, conflict, etc. • Ethics, Religious Knowledge Systems, Indigenous Knowledge
Systems, Intuition, Faith
Unit X: “Known Unknowns”
COURSE DESCRIPTION How is knowledge…
• sought? • acquired? • evaluated? • constructed?
GOALS Students should become aware of the interpretative nature of knowledge…
• WHAT DO YOU KNOW? • Facts • Concepts • Procedures • Metacognition
• HOW DO YOU KNOW? • Language • Emotion • Sense Perception • Reason • Imagination • Intuition • Faith • Memory
THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE MR. DAVID N. CHUNG
VALENCIA HIGH SCHOOL, PLACENTIA YORBA LINDA USD, ROOM 401
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE
METHODS • Seminars
• World Cafe
• Project-Based Learning
• Online/Blended Learning
• Genius Hour
• “20% Time”
• Deductive / Inductive Reasoning
• Depth & Complexity Pathways
• Content Imperatives
APPROACHES TO TEACHING • based on inquiry �
• focused on conceptual understanding �
• developed in local and global contexts �
• focused on effective teamwork and collaboration �
• differentiated to meet the needs of all learners �
• informed by formative and summative assessment �
THE EXTENDED ESSAY from the International Baccalaureate Organization, 2017
The extended essay is a piece of independent research on a topic chosen by the student in consultation with a supervisor in the school.
It is presented as a formal piece of sustained academic writing containing no more than 4,000 words accompanied by a reflection form of no more than 500 words.
It is the result of approximately 40 hours of work by the student.
Students are supported by a supervision process recommended to be 3–5 hours, which includes three mandatory reflection sessions.
OUTCOMES IB candidates (THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE) will be able to:
o demonstrate an understanding of the strengths and limitations of the various Ways of Knowing and of the methods used in the different Areas of Knowledge;
o demonstrate a capacity to reason critically;
o make connections between and across Ways of Knowing and Areas of Knowledge;
o make connections between personal experience and different Ways of Knowing and Areas of Knowledge;
o demonstrate an understanding of knowledge at work in the world;
o identify values underlying judgments and knowledge claims pertinent to local and global issues;
o demonstrate an understanding that personal views, judgments and beliefs may influence their own knowledge claims and those of others; and
o use oral and written language to formulate and communicate ideas clearly.
IB candidates (EXTENDED ESSAY) will be able to:
o engage in independent research with intellectual initiative and rigor
o develop research, thinking, self-management and communication skills
o reflect on what has been learned throughout the research and writing process.
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HOW DO I/WE KNOW?
WAYS OF KNOWING
AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE
LINKING CONCEPTS
sense perception reason
emotion language
Ethics
intuition imagination
faith memory
Mathematics
Human Sciences
Natural Sciences
Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Religious Knowledge Systems
History
The Arts
certainty
evidence
justification
perspective
limitations
value connections
meaning
verification
experience
belief
bias
explanation
nature
correlation
credibility
authority
causality
absolutism
relativism
subjectivity
validity
reliability
worldview
paradigms
uncertainty
nurture
REAL LIFE SITUATION: SCOPE & METHODOLOGY:
KNOWLEDGE QUESTION/S: KNOWLEDGE CLAIMS:
THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE MAP We know too much to be skeptics and too little to be dogmatists.
Blaise Pascal, 1623-62
