IBDP Psychology Dig a Little Deeper Series – Building a Community

Task 2 of Dig a Little Deeper is working towards building students confidence in commenting on each other’s work and providing constructive feedback. And also by asking students to engage in this task, it can help students consider on what aspects they can take-away and apply to their future writing. I hope that this will help to facilitate a community amongst our Psychology students where sharing their initial ideas is good practise and it will help to develop an acknowledgement that through collaboration, progress in their writing will occur.

Keeping mind some sound advice from Adam Grant: “Asking for feedback isn’t a sign of weakness, it is a sign you have the strength to take criticism and you’re motivated to keep getting stronger”, I have openly thanked the students who contributed to Task 1 and were willing to allow their work to be shared with the rest of the cohort.

I have based this task on something similar that I took part in last year during Tricia Friedman’s blogathon, where she set up a set of comment protocols in order to encourage us to share our initial attempts at blogging. I have also adapted a set of protocols taken from, an activity I came across by Tricia which she used in a Tech mentor meeting – See here for the slides adapted from 24slides.com:  Collaboration in Learning.

I have since adapted some broader questions to frame them towards an IB Psychology task:

Consider the following questions as you complete this task:
– What does effective feedback look like?
– How does the experience of interacting with another piece of work, inform your own writing of SAQs?
– How can we use this space to help each other develop better study habits?

One aspect I hope that this platform provides is discussion between my HL and SL students as I can see different strengths and styles of writing that would be beneficial for all to read. I also hope this will create an opportunity in which students from classes of different teachers can come together and identify examples of good practice in writing. By reading a range of work, this will help students to see that there are many ways on which questions in IB Psychology can be answered beyond a set methodology.