【世界播資訊】What is Individuals and Societies like at ISNS | ISNS人文社會(huì)學(xué)學(xué)科詳解

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Individuals

and Societies

At ISNS, Individuals and Societies (I&S) is a multi-disciplinary subject that students take in MYP and DP. We plan teaching and learning in a fun and engaging way to ensure that our students from G6 all the way to G12 are fostered their inquiry and investigation skills, as well as critical thinking, and communication skills.

This week, we interviewed our Individuals and Societies (I&S) Head of Department Mr. St Germain to find out about the DP I&S subject and how it cultivates those important skills.

Framework andcurriculum plan

Individuals and Societies (I&S) incorporates disciplines traditionally studied under the general term “the humanities” (such as history and philosophy), as well as disciplines in the social sciences (such as economics, business management, geography, and sociology).

MYP

In MYP Grade 6, 7, and 8 student study diverse topics that fall within the humanities and social sciences. The focus is on creating units that allow students to engage with exciting, stimulating and personally relevant topics and issues. The units are designed to build students’ inquiry and investigation skills as these are a strong focus of Individuals and Societies.

As the students progress through Lower MYP, the tasks and the assessments of the units become increasingly more complex and encompass a strong focus on real-world examples that allow students to build their research and analysis skills.

DP

In Grade 9 I&S, we start to offer courses to prepare students for the DP program, including units in Business Management, Economics, and Geography. These are intended to introduce students to some of the I&S courses we offer in the Diploma Program and help them build knowledge and skills that will help them succeed in the DP.

In Grade 10, I&S focuses on History as this is a requirement of New Brunswick curriculum and allows students to further develop their inquiry, critical thinking, and communication skills in preparation for the DP.

The DP subjects we offer:

Business Management

Economics

Geography

Psychology

How to ensure the connection is there from LMYP to UMYP to DP?

In MYP we develop units specifically in order to develop the student"s knowledge critical thinking, communication, and research skills. These skills that we focus on developing in the MYP help students transition into the I & S subjects at DP. It also helps students across all their DP subjects because it helps them with the Investigation skills for their internal assessments and the research skills that they develop help them with their Extended Essays in the DP program.

How does teaching and learning focus on for DP?

In DP I & S inquiry is at the heart of everything we do. For example in economics there are nine key concepts that the students need to understand and they apply those concepts to everything. They learn in the course, theory models, and tools that they apply and then they have to connect them to different key concepts. Another major important thing for students is integrating real-world examples into their learning.

Nine key concepts

A Typical Unit

A typical unit in DP economics would be currency exchange.

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We start the unit by doing some basic knowledge building where the students learn how the factors affect currency exchange and learn how to diagram those things.

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After that, they research a real-world example and see how the depreciation of a currency affects an economy.

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Once the students have built sufficient knowledge and they have real-world examples, they"ll be given some practice papers from past exams, which include real case studies and students can apply their knowledge and practice to prepare for these external exams they"ll have at the end of the year.

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The final wrap-up is a large inquiry task where students have to research two countries and the relationship between their currency and determine the impacts that the changes in the currency have on their two countries" trading relationship.

Tips for Learning I&S

“The most important thing a student can do before entering I & S in the DP is to be aware of current events. It means watching the news, reading newspapers and magazines and very importantly outside their own country and making sure they are aware of global issues and things that are affecting the world right now. ”

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人文社會(huì)學(xué)

在ISNS，人文社會(huì)學(xué)科(I&S)是學(xué)生在中學(xué)和高中階段學(xué)習(xí)的一門多元學(xué)科。我們以有趣和引人入勝的方式規(guī)劃和教授科學(xué)，以確保培養(yǎng)6到12年級(jí)學(xué)生的探究和調(diào)研研究技能，以及批判性思維和溝通技能。

本周，我們采訪了人文社會(huì)學(xué)科組長(zhǎng) (I&S) St Germain 老師，了解高中預(yù)科 I&S 學(xué)科及其如何培養(yǎng)這些重要技能。

人文社會(huì)學(xué)課程框架大綱

人文社會(huì)學(xué) (I&S) 包括傳統(tǒng)上在通用術(shù)語(yǔ)“人文學(xué)科”下研究的學(xué)科（如歷史和哲學(xué)），以及社會(huì)科學(xué)學(xué)科（如經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)、商業(yè)管理、地理學(xué)和社會(huì)學(xué)）。

MYP 6-8年級(jí)

在中學(xué) 6、7 和 8年級(jí)（MYP），學(xué)生學(xué)習(xí)關(guān)于人文和社會(huì)科學(xué)的各種主題。重點(diǎn)是創(chuàng)建單元，讓學(xué)生參與令人興奮和個(gè)人相關(guān)的主題和問(wèn)題。這些單元旨在培養(yǎng)學(xué)生的探究和調(diào)查技能，因?yàn)檫@些是人文社會(huì)學(xué)的重點(diǎn)。

隨著學(xué)生通過(guò)中學(xué)低年級(jí)取得進(jìn)展，單元的任務(wù)和評(píng)估變得越來(lái)越復(fù)雜，并且非常注重現(xiàn)實(shí)世界的例子，讓學(xué)生能夠培養(yǎng)他們的研究和分析技能。

DP 9-10年級(jí)

在9年級(jí) I&S課，我們開始提供相應(yīng)的科目為學(xué)生準(zhǔn)備DP課程，包括商業(yè)管理、經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)和地理單元。這些旨在向?qū)W生介紹我們?cè)谖膽{課程中提供的一些人文和社會(huì)的課程，幫助他們建立知識(shí)和技能，在高中預(yù)科 （DP）學(xué)習(xí)中取得成功。

在10年級(jí)，I&S側(cè)重于歷史，因?yàn)檫@是新不倫瑞克省（加拿大）課程的要求，并允許學(xué)生進(jìn)一步發(fā)展他們的探究、批判性思維和溝通技巧，為DP做準(zhǔn)備。

我們提供的DP科目：

商業(yè)管理

經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)

地理

心理學(xué)

從中學(xué)到高中是如何銜接的？

在MYP中學(xué)階段，我們專門開發(fā)單元以發(fā)展學(xué)生的知識(shí)、批判性思維、溝通和研究技能。我們?cè)贛YP重點(diǎn)培養(yǎng)的這些技能可幫助學(xué)生過(guò)渡到DP的人文社會(huì)科目，還可以讓學(xué)生順利完成所有DP科目。因?yàn)樗梢詭椭麄冋莆諆?nèi)部評(píng)估的調(diào)查技能，而他們培養(yǎng)的研究技能可以在完成DP的擴(kuò)展論文時(shí)起到很大作用。

高中預(yù)科的課程側(cè)重點(diǎn)是什么？

在 DP的 I & S課上，探究是我們所做一切的核心。比如經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)，學(xué)生需要理解九個(gè)關(guān)鍵概念，并將這些概念應(yīng)用到所有事物中。他們?cè)谡n程中學(xué)習(xí)他們應(yīng)用的理論模型和工具，然后需要將它們與不同的關(guān)鍵概念聯(lián)系起來(lái)。對(duì)學(xué)生來(lái)說(shuō)，另一件重要的事情是將真實(shí)世界的例子融入到學(xué)習(xí)中。

9個(gè)關(guān)鍵概念

典型單元

舉個(gè)例子，DP經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)中的一個(gè)典型單元就是貨幣兌換。

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我們通過(guò)建立一些基本知識(shí)來(lái)開始本單元，讓學(xué)生了解這些因素如何影響貨幣兌換，并學(xué)習(xí)繪制圖表來(lái)表示。

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之后，他們研究一個(gè)真實(shí)世界的例子，看看貨幣貶值如何影響現(xiàn)實(shí)世界中的經(jīng)濟(jì)。

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一旦學(xué)生建立了足夠的知識(shí)并且他們有了真實(shí)的例子，我們會(huì)做一些舊的練習(xí)試卷，包括真實(shí)的案例研究，學(xué)生可以應(yīng)用他們的知識(shí)和實(shí)踐，來(lái)為年底的考試做準(zhǔn)備。

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最后的總結(jié)是一項(xiàng)大型探究任務(wù)，學(xué)生需要研究?jī)蓚€(gè)國(guó)家及其貨幣之間的關(guān)系，并確定貨幣變化對(duì)兩國(guó)貿(mào)易關(guān)系的影響。

學(xué)習(xí)I&S的小建議

“在進(jìn)入高中預(yù)科的I&S課程之前，學(xué)生可以做的最重要的事情是了解時(shí)事。比如看新聞、閱讀報(bào)紙和雜志，非常重要的是了解在他們自己國(guó)家以外的地方發(fā)生的事，確保關(guān)注了解全球問(wèn)題和正在影響世界的事情。”