The session is designed to bring secondary school humanities teachers to grow the working group and collaborate on issues and changes that impact humanities. Participants will share examples of best practice in planning, teaching, assessment and collaboration.
The structure of the full-day session should be based on the following timeline: 08:30-9:00 Welcome Coffee 9:00-12:45 Morning Session
Feedback on the past year
Updates on developments
Finalisation of the agenda
Break
Roundtable: first impressions of the new IB EE syllabus
Roundtable: MYP planning and resource sharing
12:45-13:45 Lunch 13:00-15:45 Afternoon Session
Subject-specific breakouts
Cross school and cross curricular field work and field trip planning
break
The city as a classroom: using Potsdam as an example of teaching various humanities disciplines
Final decisions on the focus for the school year 2026 - 27
Supervising IB Business Management Internal Assessments can be one of the most time-consuming responsibilities for teachers. This practical workshop will demonstrate how to use Artificial Intelligence responsibly to help teachers review IA drafts, generate criterion-aligned feedback, and write final supervisor comments more efficiently. Participants will learn how to analyse student work against IB assessment Criteria A–E, identify strengths and areas for improvement, and generate professional feedback while maintaining academic integrity. The session will focus on reducing workload, improving the quality of feedback, and ensuring alignment with IB assessment standards. Attendees are encouraged to have a ChatGPT subscription that allows for document uploads.
How do we move literature from the page into the body, the voice, and the lived experience of our students? Literature in Action is a dynamic workshop inspired by the IB’s Literature and Performance curriculum. It is designed to equip educators with practical performance-based strategies to deepen literary understanding. This workshop bridges literary analysis and dramatic practice, demonstrating how performance techniques—such as hot seating, tableaux, choral speaking, and scripted adaptation—can unlock character motivation, theme, context, and language. Using extracts from widely taught texts and plays (from Shakespeare to contemporary fiction), participants will actively explore how embodiment, voice, and staging choices sharpen critical thinking and textual interpretation. Teachers will leave with adaptable lesson frameworks, rehearsal-style questioning techniques, and assessment strategies that lean towards performance that align with curriculum goals while energising classroom engagement. No prior drama experience is required—only a willingness to step into the ‘drama’ of the written work.
