What is TOK?

• TOK is about exploring possibilities and opinions.

• The fundamental understanding for TOK is the value of experience. 

• The primary goal is for students to develop habits of mind rather than body of content.

• Students will learn how to think as opposed to acquiring knowledge.

• TOK will instill the importance of how to make choices, rather than what is right or wrong.   

Students are given opportunities to:

• Reflect upon knowledge and experience, and the validity of the claims made about knowledge.
  
  
• Recognize limitations on the degree of certainty possible in all areas of knowledge.
  
  
• Be aware of subjective and ideological biases in themselves and others;
  
  
• Develop a personal mode of thought based on constructive examination of evidence and expressed in rational argument.
  
  
• Explore the relationship between belief and contrasting worldviews.

The course will be divided into 7 “topics.” However, the topics are actually frameworks for discussion, observation, and research.  Each topic will build upon the others and promote a synthesis of interdisciplinary knowledge and an international perspective. 

Theory of Knowledge Coordinators -
Mr. Marc Trzaskos (mtrzaskos@bscsd.org) and  Ms. Tricia Dillion (pdillon@bscsd.org)