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TOK- Introduction

TOK- Introduction. How does TOK fit into the IB?. TOK Aims. Assessment Objectives. The IB Learner Profile. What is TOK?. How is TOK assessed?. Part 1 External assessment (67%) Essay on a prescribed title (1,200–1,600 words)

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TOK- Introduction

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  1. TOK- Introduction

  2. How does TOK fit into the IB?

  3. TOK Aims

  4. Assessment Objectives

  5. The IB Learner Profile

  6. What is TOK?

  7. How is TOK assessed? • Part 1 External assessment (67%) • Essay on a prescribed title (1,200–1,600 words) • One essay on a title chosen from a list of six titles prescribed by the IBO for each examination session. • Part 2 Internal assessment (33%) • The presentation (approximately 10 minutes per student) • One presentation to the class. • One written presentation planning document (TK/PPD) • The presentation should be an integral part of the TOK course.

  8. Knowing how to evaluate information, therefore, is arguably the most important kind of knowledge that education has to teach. Some schools offer courses in it, and there are a number of books about it on the market. But only the International Baccalaureate makes critical thinking ("theory of knowledge") a standard requirement, and in this as in so many ways it leads the field, because critical thinking and evaluation of claims to knowledge should always be right at the centre of the educational enterprise. • -A. C. Grayling

  9. “Test everything, hold on to what is good” • -1Thessalonians 5.21

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