Year 12s TOK Exhibititon impressed all visitors with their well-thought projects
All the core elements of the IB diploma are designed to encourage different aspects of student reflection on learning, focusing on the Theory of Knowledge being a metacognitive reflection or for students to reflect more deeply on how they can claim to know. As part of this course, the students are required to prepare an exhibition, which is an Internal Assessment component in which students are asked to show how ToK manifests in the world around us. They have to choose three objects with a real-world context and link them to one of 35 different prompts or knowledge questions, such as “What counts as knowledge?”. Understanding how knowledge questions, in connection with the acquisition, search for, production, shaping, and acceptance of knowledge, is at the heart of this thought-provoking course.
The exhibition is a celebration of the final work and an opportunity for students to showcase their explorations of the knowledge questions. In preparation for this, students in Year 12 have covered a variety of themes, including knowledge and the knower, technology, politics, indigenous societies, religion, technology and language. In year 13, the students will go on to explore areas of academic knowledge in more depth and write their final ToK essays on titles set by the IB in September. This challenging course should not be underestimated in its importance, helping students to more deeply and critically explore all of their studies and providing a skill set highly valued by Universities. Students returning to talk to teachers at school often remark on the significance of their studies in ToK and of the great value it gives them in making a smooth transition to undergraduate courses.
Congratulations to all the students who committed and delivered great projects and presentations.
Mr Adrian Palmer, Head of TOK
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