Block 5: Saturday 2:00 to 3:15

At 40, it is time for the IB to assess the impact of its educational mission on the lives of its. Three former IB Diploma students, one of whom also completed the IB Middle Years Program, will come together in this session to reflect on their IB experiences. These are three people from very different backgrounds, who are at different places in their ongoing education.

The IB celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2008, and has come a long way since Alec Peterson first developed and introduced the concept of the Diploma Programme in 1968. The goal back then was to facilitate the international mobility of students by providing schools with a curriculum and qualification recognized by universities around the world.

While university admissions officers are increasingly actively recruiting IB Diploma students, there remains a good deal of tension between their desire to attract prepared students, both academically and socially, and student and parent expectation that course credit be awarded for the rigorous SL courses they have taken.

This session will explore a researched model for online collaborative learning and examine ways to integrate enhancements into your science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) curricula. Discover how informal STEM learning projects are characterized by high levels of self direction, open-ended challenges, and self-motivated decision making.

Most educators have heard of the multiple intelligences and how important they are to effective education. The challenge comes when one tries to incorporate them into the classroom.

Presenters will share their plan for an interdisciplinary unit featuring the technology design cycle model as the vehicle. At Silver Spring Middle School, sixth grade students traditionally participate in an outdoor instructional unit that combines multidisciplinary objectives in a woodland setting.

As students become increasingly sedentary and learning disorders increase, it is important to understand the link between movement and brain function. This interactive presentation will explore the concept of embodied cognition as it relates to new categories of educational tools, and actively engage the participants to experience how and why these tools work.

Have you ever had difficulty describing the IB and our programmes to your community? Come learn how to describe the benefits of an IB education to your constituents - from parents, to students, to the community at large.

In recent years, considerable energy has been devoted by IB to developing both an understanding of and a classroom approach to fostering international mindedness in IB students, a central component across the continuum of IB programmes.

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