Addressing the IB Learner Profile Through Global Citizenship

Room: Mayfair

presented by Boyd Roberts, Director, International Global Citizen's Award

Humanity faces unprecedented global challenges. This session (presentation and discussion) considers how schools can address the IB learner profile, and help to develop students as active global citizens now, responding personally to these challenges. Currently being piloted, the innovative International Global Citizen's Award (www.globalcitizensaward.org) encourages and recognizes development of individual students (13+) as "caring", "principled" global citizens. Participating schools cooperate globally and act locally to implement their own versions of the common international model. Although it can build on and incorporate elements of MYP and Diploma Programme, the award can also be offered to non-IB students in IB World Schools.

Boyd Roberts, Director, International Global Citizen's Award
Boyd Roberts has over 30 years experience with the IB in many capacities, including as head of a national IB school in Jordan (during the first Gulf War), and of St Clare's, Oxford. He has served on the IB Africa, Europe, Middle East regional heads' committee, and the UK IB Schools and Colleges Association committee. An Oxford graduate, in 2005 he was a visiting fellow at the Klingenstein Center, Teachers College. He has written and spoken widely on international education and global citizenship and is consultant on internationalism for the series of IB diploma course companions published by Oxford University Press. His experience and thinking led him to devise the International Global Citizen's Award, now in its pilot stage.