TOK encourages critical thinking about knowledge itself and aims to help young people make sense of what they encounter. Its core content focuses on questions such as:

• What counts as knowledge?

• How does it grow?

• What are its limits?

• Who owns knowledge?

• What is the value of knowledge?

• What are the implications of having, or not having, knowledge?

TOK activities and discussions aim to help students discover and express their own views on these questions.

Together, the EE and TOK combine together to avail students of a possible 3 bonus points as part of their Diploma. The following matrix demonstrates how the two work together.

TOK ESSAY

Every year students choose 1 title from a list of 6.

These titles are published in September of G12.

Students complete a 1600 word essay worth 33% of the final IB grade

TOK lessons are focused on exploring Knowledge Questions

TOK lessons occur once every four-day-cycle

These lessons are delivered by a TOK teacher

DP teachers at CDNIS integrate TOK into their lessons.

Exploring TOK in subject lessons helps develop subject expertise.

Here, DP ESS teacher Josh Arnold uses TOK in a lesson on sampling before students engage in fieldwork.