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Middle School Education An International Perspective Kevin Hawkins

Middle School Education An International Perspective Kevin Hawkins. IBO International Baccalaureate Organisation. 568,000 IB students at 2,127 schools in 125 countries. IBO: Primary Years Programme (PYP) Middle Years Programme (MYP) I.B. Diploma.

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Middle School Education An International Perspective Kevin Hawkins

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  1. Middle School Education An International Perspective Kevin Hawkins

  2. IBO • International Baccalaureate • Organisation

  3. 568,000 IB students at 2,127 schools in 125 countries.

  4. IBO: • Primary Years Programme • (PYP) • Middle Years Programme • (MYP) • I.B. Diploma

  5. “ The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect”.

  6. “These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right”.

  7. CIS Council for International Schools

  8. “International” • British International • American International • National/IB • Innovative curricula

  9. Why Middle School? • Arusha and Prague • International Curricula, Approaches, Philosophies

  10. “The Grain of the Brain?”

  11. Understanding By Design • Wiggins and McTighe

  12. UBD = Backward Design • Essential Questions • Enduring Understandings • Authentic Performance • Assessment for Learning

  13. X= Grade 6 Band; 7&8 IT/ Exploratory; Support; EAP H= 40 mins: Grade 6 IT; 7&8 IT /Health;; Exploratory; Support ; EAP 35 mins: Study Hall Grade 7&8 Band and Choir - 75 mins

  14. “Too often we give children answers to questions rather than problems to solve”

  15. "The method people naturally employ to acquire knowledge is largely unsupported by traditional classroom practice. The human mind is better equipped to gather information about the world by operating within it than by reading about it, hearing lectures on it, or studying abstract models of it." Schank and Cleave

  16. Coherence • Connection • Less is more • Depth not coverage

  17. Putting Hands Around the Flame: reclaiming the radical tradition in state education Alex Bloom, Pioneer of Radical State Education MICHAEL FIELDING

  18. 21st Century Learning Initiative www.21learn.org • ELMLE www.elmle.org • NMSA www.nmsa.org • IBO www.ibo.org • ISP www.isp.cz • khawkins@isp.cz

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