Teach iBacc introduces the iBacc framework to teachers, with the aim of equipping you with the knowledge, skills, and experience you need to begin practising the three-screen method in your own classroom, so that you can support the pupils you teach to grow in leadership, scholarship, craftsmanship, and citizenship.

When you take the course you will:

• experience your own leadership tendencies against the nine modes of mindful leadership, and get a hands-on feel for a Scholarship, a Craftsmanship, and a Citizenship habit

• theorise about the iBacc framework — its four pillars, the three-screen method, the seven habits, and how the nine modes sit within Screen Three

• plan lessons across all four strands, including how habits reinforce one another and when to hand a learning-habit objective to a student themselves

• facilitate a student’s own self-leadership, using John Heron’s six categories of intervention as your working model

• evaluate learning using iBacc’s existing co-curricular accreditation — Scouting and Duke of Edinburgh awards, graded exams, formal qualifications, leadership viva — alongside your own day-to-day observation

• apply iBacc to your own subject and your own pupils’ needs

Minimum 4, maximum 40 participants.

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12 directed hours (six 2-hour modules), plus 2 x 2 self-directed hours needed minimally for the post-course  Deliver and Demonstrate modules — 16 hours in total for the complete course leading to the Certificate of Achievement.

There are four formats for Teach iBacc:

2 days (09.00–16.00) ≈ 12 hours
3 half days (09.00–13.00) = 4h × 3 = 12 hours
1 day + 3 twilights = 7h + 6h = 13 hours
6 twilights (15.30–17.30) = 2h × 6 = 12 hours; the format for individual teachers joining a scheduled public online cohort

Each course follows the same structure: Experience, Theorise, Plan, Facilitate, Evaluate and Apply iBacc.

Module One: Experience iBacc

• What are the nine modes of mindful leadership as I experience them?

• What is it like to embody the learning habits of Scholarship, Craftsmanship, and Citizenship?

Module Two: Theorise iBacc

• What is the iBacc framework — the four pillars, the three-screen method, and the seven habits?

• How do the nine modes of mindful leadership show up in students?

Module Three: Plan iBacc

• How do I plan a Scholarship, a Craftsmanship, and a Citizenship lesson?

• How do I plan for student-determined learning habits?

Module Four: Facilitate iBacc

• How do I facilitate a student’s self-leadership through the nine modes?

• What questions support a student’s own self-facilitation?

Module Five: Evaluate iBacc

• How does iBacc use existing co-curricular accreditation as evidence?

• How does a learner evaluate their own progress?

Module Six: Apply iBacc

• How do I apply iBacc to my own teaching in the next unit of work?

• What will I evaluate and record, and what is my commitment to Deliver?

Learn more about assessment below.

As PDFs: 

• Teach iBacc course handbook 

• Deck of key slides (in handout format)

Dr Tim Saunders

Demonstrate iBacc is the final self-directed module and constitutes the course assessment. Assessment involves providing short reflective answers to the key questions associated with the Experience, Theorise, Plan, Facilitate, Evaluate, Apply and Deliver modules, assessed against four criteria:

• Engaged — you have made a genuine attempt to try iBacc out in your own practice

• Understood — you use accurate and relevant iBacc vocabulary (the seven habits, the nine modes, Screen One/Two/Three) correctly

• Assimilated — you can connect what you tried to the wider iBacc framework, not just describe it in isolation

• Reflected — you show genuine reflection on what went well and what you’d do differently

The course outcomes are as follows:

• Certificate of Attendance (100% attendance, i.e. 6/6 modules)

• Option to catch up via video and assessment for those with >66.67% attendance (4/6 or 5/6 modules)

• Option to retake the course for those with <66.67% attendance (1, 2, or 3 modules)

Those with a Certificate of Attendance may apply for a Certificate of Achievement, obtained after completing Deliver and Demonstrate and passing the assessment. You have 12 weeks from the end of Teach iBacc to do this.