Diploma Programme

In this session, participants will be introduced to the ideas and strategies of teaching for understanding. Planning a course usually leads us to consider our aims, objectives, assessments, and the knowledge we wish our students to learn. Clarifying these ideas will help us prepare a more meaningful experience for our students.

The IB has recently collaborated with the Educational Policy Improvement Centre (EPIC) to document the Diploma Programme standards and align them with the Knowledge and Skills for University Success, standards for what students need to know to be successful in their first year of university.

The University of Tulsa (TU) received 60 full IB Diploma students in August 2007.

Major developments in the Diploma Programme Online have resulted in new opportunities for students to enroll in online courses starting this September. Pamoja Education, working in cooperation with IB, will be developing more than 30 new DP Online courses over the next few years.

Explore the interactive workshops developed by Engineers Without Borders Canada—Water for the World, Food for Thought, and Energy Matters—designed to connect scientific concepts to real world applications, and link directly to curricula.

In this session, participants will experience and learn how to utilize an easily accessible method to stimulate internationally-minded thinking in their schools. The method uses visual imagery drawn from a variety of sources and is designed to help participants engage in novel forms of thinking about the problems and issues facing the population of the world today.

In order for schools to encourage students to develop new ways of thinking for a new world, the faculty must first address the necessary change in school culture to create a sucessful IB programme. School improvement requires that teachers change what they think, say, and do. This workshop promotes the use of the IB Learner Profile as a means to develop a professional working community.

Learn about how to engage students in the classroom by drawing from practices of recent brain-based conference research. Join Wanda Bibb to explore these methods and learn how to implement them so that they are appropriate and are effective for all levels and students.

The session will detail techniques for a multi-faceted approach to building the IB in your local school, community, and state. Included will be techniques for approaching state departments of education, organizations of university presidents, chief academic officers, and state legislators.

Join IBIS administration and Coordinator Help Desk Staff from IB Cardiff as they demonstrate administration tasks on IBIS, carried out by the coordinator, which will include candidate registrations, IA/PG entry, setting up teacher accounts, and submitting other information.