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

“ 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”.

“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”.

CIS Council for International Schools

“International” British International American International National/IB Innovative curricula

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

“The Grain of the Brain?”

Understanding By Design / Wiggins and McTighe

UBD = Backward Design / Essential Questions / Enduring Understandings / Authentic Performance / Assessment for Learning / Essential Questions / Enduring Understandings / Authentic Performance / Assessment for Learning

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

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

"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

Coherence Connection Less is more Depth not coverage

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

21st Century Learning Initiative ELMLE NMSA IBO ISP