Hello! I'm part of a focus group who are looking at how we run conferencing in our school. We'd love to hear how you run conferences at yours!Please fill in this Google Form if you can! 

My husband has now creeated Arabic and Vietnamese ATL posters. These came out of a request from two teachers, from two different schools, who provided the translations! Thanks Aurora Reid, from St Dominic's Priory College in Australia, and Kehri Magalad from ​Qatar Academy Al Wakra.

• Arabic ATL Posters​
• Vietnamese Posters
• (All posters here including English, French, German and Spanish).

TWO REQUESTS:
1. Let us know is there are any spelling mistakes/typos/other general errors
2. Send us translations in other languages so we can make more posters.

I put together this little road map to help students understand how to address each strand/criterion of the MYP Design Cycle fully. We also do activities addressing each strand, so they can fully understand them (for example, my Grade 8 students are moving onto Criterion B, so we are doing a lesson on ​Orthographic Drawing next week).
This is a work in progress, and I will continue to add/edit/change, but would love your input too - Let me know what is missing or what I should add!

I only see my Design students for two 90 minute lessons a week, but I want to expose them to endless amounts of excellent design! I've come up with a few ways to do this, including extra-curricular quests (in ClassCraft) and through bringing in interesting objects for them to look at (including in my first class of the year).

Some  interesting objects I bought in recently are my rug, made from plastic bottles from the ocean and my new bag, made of a recycled bounce house/bouncy castle! As well as a Lucky Iron Fish and a Right Cup!

Students seem to really enjoy learning about this objects, as they are never what they expect, and they like the play involved with guessing. Students are so used to me bringing in strange objects, that the other day a student would not believe that my brooch did not have a hidden meaning. He came up to me in the hall and said 'what's that about'....and then was very disappointed when I told him it was just pretty..

I also often end my lessons by showing students cool design, interesting videos....and often music videos from around the world, or ones that the students are requested. This creates a fun culture in the classroom and students seem to be pretty excited to see how these things.

Although there is change over time between every class, I always have students arriving at different times, so have started putting up activities on my board for them to do, while other students arrive. Sometimes these are interesting photos from the news and sometimes they are games, like Boggle! However, I have been meaning to put together some photos of cool designs to kick off my classes. I recently popped home to London and went to the Design Museum to see the Beazley Design Awards exhibition, and knew I needed to share lots of these cool items with my students!

Anyway - here you go - to use this presentation show the first image on the board, and as students come in they can guess what it is, and then when everyone arrives, you can reveal it's purpose!

ENJOY! Let me know what else I should add!