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Save instruction time, incorporate standards, and increase high-level thinking by using open-ended learning experiences with multiple applications. This practical session invites participants to select from a repertoire of modeled strategies and activities that encourage students to excel while minimizing teacher preparation time.

What happens to a school community when a school begins the journey towards being an authorized IB World School offering the Primary Years Programme?

The Diploma Programme Online project aims to help IB World Schools extend subject choice and reach out to students unable to attend an IB World School. The project will enhance intercultural understanding and help students develop the 21st century skills necessary for life after school.

Bring learning to life with Service Learning 101!

Through a project funded by the US Department of Education, IB North America is working to increase the number of students both participating and succeeding in IB programmes by piloting new structures to support greater access. A key strategy for achieving this goal is a coaching model that is being developed with the Great Schools Partnership.

This presentation demonstrates the nature, purpose, and application of Theory of Knowledge using a model classroom activity. Participants will explore how people and societies perceive and shape history. Visual imagery will draw participants into group discussion as we consider the difficulties inherent in the evaluation of historical relevance.

Through this session, coordinators will be able to develop a continuum of higher and deeper thinking methods for their teachers to personally advance as practitioners in the PYP. As teachers of teachers we must provide challenges and engaging strategies that allow a greater understanding of how to teach knowledge in depth, theory, evidence, and application.