TOK Essay land - August to February, reflections
This year's journey with the essay component of the TOK course we co-taught was rather remarkable - in part due to the opportunity to engage with students in a classroom setting, and largely in part to the assigned topics/prescribed titles themselves. In a nutshell, the group of 6 titles that are customarily assigned to students sitting exams in a May session proved really conducive to having productive in-class discussions, around approaches to the central knowledge issue question itself, in each. For example, our Math-minded students took delight in having a chance to write a fully formed essay in a non-Math discipline that gets to the heart of the matter about the role of mathematics in human culture. By the same token, our Arts-appreciative students thrilled at the prospect of bouncing off ideas in regards to the role of interpretation in artistic endeavors. And of course, there were the more "cryptic" titles, so to speak, in true TOK fashion - partnered with TOK in
