Conceptual Learning in the International Baccalaureate Science in Kazakhstan Programme

1. Conceptual Learning in the International BaccalaureateScience in Kazakhstan Programme SauleRamazanovnaAkhmetova Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Astana

2. Democracy of the mind demands changes in our mindset, which will make it possible for [global] citizens to solve global problems appropriately. The requirement for the radical reform of education, which not only analysis, but the interconnectedness of knowledge makes possible, comes from this. Edgar Morin.

3. Two- and Three-Dimensional Curricula • Concepts • Skills • Skills • Content of • learning • дағды • Content of • learning

4. Conceptual Learning Feldhusen ‘concept-based programs have varied and attractive activities, because students’ interest in new knowledge is stimulated’   Van Tassel Baska‘the idea behind conceptual learning is that it is better to develop several concepts at a high level, rather than consider many concepts superficially’   Shaq ‘conceptual learning increases student and teacher interest in knowledge questions, creates interesting scenarios’ {Paraphrases}

5. Relevance of the Curriculum – Global Context • Objective: • Investigate connectedness with real life • Improveintercultural understanding; • Requirements: • Six global contexts should be covered during the year • Every unit should have one global context • Identities and relationships • Scientific and technical innovations

6. Global Contexts

8. Key and Related Concepts • Key concepts: • Building questions for research with global contexts: • Broad, organizing, powerful ideas • Relevance within and across subjects and disciplines • Provide connections that can transfer across time and culture • • Related concepts: • Explore key concepts in greater detail • Provide depth to the programme • Provide a focus for inquiry into subject-specific content

9. Unit plan. Topic of the unit : Middle Age states on the territory of Kazakhstan

10. The Structure of Education (L. Erickson) Cooperation and conflict open the way for new opportunities or large changes • Change • Migration • Conflict • Cooperation Turkic states in the Middle Ages Migration of Turkic tribes Education in Turkic states Blossoming of Turkic states

11. Guiding Questions • What thoughts come to your mind when you think about the changes? • What subjects and concepts may be changed? • How are the changes related to place? • Whether changes occur at intervals of time? • Can we predict the changes? • Can a person change his life on his or her own?

12. Place-based Positive and negative • Time-based Change Systematic or accidental • Natural and human-made

13. Guiding Questions • What is a border? What types of border are there? • Can a person feel free without any borders? • Does interaction affect borders? • What are the causes of cross-border conflicts? • Can the change of power affectto changes in border? • How do changes in borders affect people? • Is migration inevitable? • What is the impact of migration on the internal politics of any state? • What is the impact of medieval migration on the present day?

14. Guiding Questions What is power? What is your association with the word "power"? How can you link your personal life with power? What are the positive and negative aspects of power? What changes can have an impact on power? How are the concepts of "conflict" and "cooperation“ connected with government? What qualities does a person with power have? Can one person change the world?

15. Project Title: The Turkic peoples: yesterday, today and tomorrow. Inquiry questions: How does the migration of Turkic peoples in the medieval period affect modern development? Prove that the Turkish people have a common origin. What are the common signs preserved? Modern Turkic peoples: the Turks, Bulgarians, South Siberian peoples, Azeris, Turkmen. Guidingquestions: When, why and how did Turkic peoples form? How did cooperation, internecine conflicts and power change the development of the Turkic peoples? How did the migration of Turkic peoples influence the world civilization? What are the most important historical events and personalities which influenced the development of medieval Turkic states?

16. Conceptual Learning