We should all be drawing on TOK – but not because we’re told to, but because the course offers both students and teachers the chance to link learning to the real-world, encounter amazing ideas and thinkers, and develop skills in authentic critical thinking.
But we understand that the pressures of time may lead you to view this obligation as an onerous one. So here’s our DP Integration Tool, allowing you to effortlessly link your subject to TOK, explore real-world events and issues, and inspire your students.
Access the DP integration padlets
The DP Integration Tool consists of 25 padlets, one for every DP course, each one offering a range of TOK mini-lessons based on the latest events and issues, accessible information about the TOK course, and guidance on how to link it to the components of your curriculum.
At the heart of what we do is the encouragement of authentic critical thinking (ACT). This helps learners identify and challenge – rather than confirm – their biases and assumptions. It provides us with a continuum of thinking, running from primary all the way through to the DP.
The ACT/TOK teaching and learning pathway
Placing ACT at the heart of what we do enables us to create a learning pathway represented by the diagram below. We begin with resources for primary learners, move onto the middle years resources, and culminate in our resources for the TOK course (or, if your students are following a different educational programme our senior ACT resources).
Our resources are incredibly flexible, and can be plugged into any educational programme. You can draw on our middle and primary ACT resources to help prepare students for the TOK course within timetabled critical thinking classes, PSE lessons, or in optional extension periods outside the usual day – it’s entirely up to you.
Join us to gain access to the integration resources
Check out the first integration padlet for anthropology below to gain an idea of how effective the resource is. To access the resources for the other 24 DP subjects, become a faculty member of the site here.
Watch our integration webinars
Our series of webinars offer tips and strategies on how to integrate TOK with the different Diploma Programme groups. You can access the Group 1 webinar by clicking on the video, and access the videos for the other Groups via this YouTube playlist.
Each video provides you with a link to the event presentation, and our responses to FAQs asked by attendees. Check out our other recorded webinars, and news about upcoming TOK events, via this page.
Help your learners to exit their echo chambers!
Our online and in-person workshops offer the usual support for students writing the essay and exhibition, and TOK departments designing great courses.
But our training sessions go much further than this: by focusing on authentic critical thinking, they demonstrate how to help learners confront, rather than confirm, their biases and assumptions, and exit their echo chambers. This makes them accessible and relevant for all teachers, whatever their subject or programme. Read more here.