Spanish for the IB MYP 4 & 5 (Phases 3-5): By Concept

by J. Rafael Angel

Overview

Endorsed by the IB

Drive meaningful inquiry through a unique concept-driven narrative.

- Supports every aspect of assessment with opportunities that use the criteria
- Gives you easy ways to differentiate and extend learning
- Provides a meaningful approach by integrating the inquiry statement in a global context
- Develops critical-thinking skills with activities and summative sections rooted in the ATL framework

This title is also available in two digital formats via Dynamic Learning. Find out more by clicking on the links at the top of the page.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781471841880
Publisher:	Hodder Education Group
Publication date:	09/25/2015
Series:	Dynamic Learning
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	14 - 15 Years

About the Author

J. Rafael Angel is the Curriculum Coordinator at Qingdao Amerasia International School (QAIS), China. He is an experienced MYP Language Acquisition educator who has taught in the Americas, the Middle East and Eastern Asia. He is an IB Workshop Leader, and also worked with the IB in the curation of the Teacher Support Materials for the MYP NC.

Editorial Reviews

En el mundo din mico de MYP donde aprender es vivir, este libro es un gran recurso para los maestros. No solo los profesores de espa ol sino de cualquier otra segunda lengua pueden coger ideas de l. El libro provee tareas por criterios y es un gran ejemplo de c mo se puede facilitar un concepto por tantos medios que tenemos. Tambi n por mediante de las tareas, desarrolla nuestra comprensi n de los criterios de las segundas lenguas. Asimismo nos muestra modelos de c mo deben ser las fases altas (4 y 5) que est n disponibles.

Aparte de todo esto, como un buen profesor, el libro les hace pensar a los profesores y les motiva que inquieran y de esta manera, profundicen su conocimiento. No solo es una gu a para los alumnos sino tambi n sirve de una gu a educativa para los profesores.

Translation

In the dynamic MYP world where learning is living, MYP Spanish by Concept is a great resource for teachers. Not only is the book useful for Spanish teachers, but also for other Language Acquisition teachers who can access the ideas in it as well. The book provides criterion-based tasks; it is an example of how a concept can be facilitated through a variety of means. Moreover, the book enhances comprehension of the subject criteria through the tasks, while showing models of how progression to higher phases (4 and 5) may occur.

Aside from the above, the book encourages teachers to wonder, inquire and reflect while deepening their conceptual understandings. Not only is the book a guide for students, but also a pedagogical guide for teachers.

Kasturi Bagwe

Si vous aimez le PEI et les possibilit s offertes par ce programme, ce livre est fait pour vous. Que vous soyez tudiants ou professeurs, il fourmille d'activit s interactives et d'exemples pertinents des diverses t ches et objectifs du PEI. Par ailleurs, il multiplie les connexions avec Th orie de la connaissance du BI et invite la communaut de la classe s'interroger sur le monde qui l'entoure diverses chelles.

Etant professeur de fran ais, et passionn e par l'apprentissage des langues trang res, Spanish MYP by concept, me permet d'aborder avec les tudiants des sujets modernes d'actualit s, en utilisant des ressources au go t du jour et vari es tout en axant la p dagogie sur le questionnement permanent du monde qui nous entoure au moyen des concepts globaux.

Translation

If you like the MYP and the possibilities offered by this program, this is the book for you. Whether you are a student or a teacher, it is full of interactive activities and relevant examples of the various tasks and goals of the MYP. Moreover, it multiplies the connections with Theory of Knowledge IB and invites the learning community to question the world around at various scales.

Being a French teacher, and passionate about learning foreign languages, Spanish MYP by concept, allows me to themes of global relevance, and other modern themes with students, using up-to-date resources and a rich, varied pedagogy focusing on inquiring about the world around us through global concepts.

Monia Voegelin

It is, by far, the friendliest (even for the newcomer) material available to meet and exceed IB standards. The help and guidance available to the instructors are incredibly detailed, thus, most helpful. My students are engaged and happily learning a subject previously known for its lack of uniformity. J. Rafael Angel has brought the much-needed scope and sequence worthy of an IB material. If you need a step-by-step guidance into the appropriate scope and sequence, this material is the answer! Nothing else comes even closer.

Dr Akiva Rubinstein

It's my pleasure to write about the book MYP by concept. Spanish (Phases 3 - 5) by J. Rafael Angel.

I have no doubt, that this book will be received by the vast professional community of international IB teachers with a great enthusiasm and gratitude.

In languages, MYP sets for students challenging and demanding goals and leaves teachers free to choose the content of their subject course. This is what makes the selection of resources impossible to overstate.

Random texts from various books, Internet of press, albeit all their linguistic and thematic diversification, mainly are not adapted to a certain level of students' competence and to relevant features of MYP language acquisition programme.

This book, still leaving a teacher free to search for additional resources, represents a solid and comprehensive framework of Spanish language course.

All themes are thoroughly selected and developed in depth, providing a broad picture of cultural diversity and building a strong general knowledge across the curriculum, thus implementing an important IB requirement of interdisciplinary learning. Each topic is explored through key concepts, which, apart from being in line with core IB demands, guides students in relating language learning to the global environment with it's humane values.

The book helps students to substantially increase their vocabulary not in a way of mechanical memorising, but through a logical contextual understanding, in other words, in the way it occurs in the real life, when people find themselves in a country of the target language. Idiomatic expressions, terminology, words of local use in various Spanish-speaking countries, elements of different format and conventions, - all this contributes to the feeling of a true immersion into the language.

After-reading tasks and exercises deserve a special commendation. In fact, it is not just by reading and understanding, but through an active and creative work with an oral or/ and written text, that the language is learnt.

All after-text activities promote reflection, creative and critical thinking, inquiry, risk-taking, - and all other attributes of learner's profile. Exercises and tasks encourage students to explore in depth both the language and the topic: to formulate questions, to express opinions and ideas and to arrive to own conclusions.
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s a Spanish/ French teacher in Bishop Mackenzie International School in Lilongwe, Malawi, I was eager to see this book published and ordered it for the Foreign Languages Department for the 2016-2017 school year.

My warmest gratitude and congratulations to the author, Rafael Angel.

Olga Zvezdina