The IB Mission Statement
"The IB aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect." The goals outlined by the IB for its schools really speak to the changing face of our globe and emphasize our need to become respectful, responsible citizens of our world. These ideals stand out as being relevant to our students and their families, we want our students to take their knowledge and use it to make a better, more peaceful world.
High Academic Standards
By centering our learning and exploration around things that are relevant, challenging and engaging-we can inspire our students to take responsibility for their own inquiries and learning. The PYP framework allows us to access the diverse prior knowledge and experience of all our students, we expose our students to different perspectives and questions while building off of what they already know. Using the transdisciplinary themes to organize our learning experiences, we place ideas and concepts into context for learning. These things all provide for a dynamic, interactive learning environment that helps students succeed and excel.
International Minded-ness
The IB provides a framework that allows students to explore concepts on both a local and global level. When we explore traditional topics such as water cycles we instead explore the availability of water as a resource around the world. Who has access? What affects this access? Who owns water? We take content outlined by our state and district standards and extend it to a wide exploration of concepts and big ideas.
Spicewood is proud to be an IB school! If you would like more information, please contact our PYP coordinator at doriane_marvel@roundrockisd..org
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My name is Tosca Killoran (http://www.toscakilloran.com/) and I am the Early Learning Team Leader and an EL5 teacher at Bonn International School in Bonn, Germany.
Last year, my colleague Jeff Hoffart, our Grade 5 teacher, (www.jeffhoffart.com) and I started a publishing company (http://www.ed-ucation.ca/) devoted to providing resources focused on inquiry-based education for teachers around the globe. At this point we are nonprofit and our resources are provided free and in the spirit of collaboration.
Over the past 13 years of being in both the Asia Pacific and Europe international IB school communities, we have noticed many parents and teachers new to the IB asking, "What is IB?" "What is the PYP, and what are these 'Transdisciplinary' things you keep talking about?" Each time the feedback we received was that the ibo.org and OCC were simply too difficult to navigate. Jeff and I decided to create an easy to navigate, straight-forward breakdown of the IB: PYP, MYP & DP programmes. We created the website as a precursor and conduit for the official IB and OCC sites. The site is a comprehensive compilation of the best resources we have found on the web. It has useful videos, blogs, websites and resources for students, parents and teachers.
As educators, we already follow your blog and are happy to have added you to the website whatisib.com as a recommended blog to follow. We would be really grateful if you could place a badge on your site that states you are featured on whatisib.com. Again, we are not making monetary gains from our work, we simply want to share the best resources we find with students, parents, and teachers around the world.
Additionally, we are interested in strengthening our content further by having contributing articles and helpful resources for teachers added to the site. If you have anything you are willing to contribute, we would be so appreciative!! If you are interested please contact us through http://www.ed-ucation.ca/. We admire, and are inspired by, your work in education! Thank you for everything you do to bring best practice to teaching and learning around the globe!
Kind Regards,
Tosca Killoran BFA MEd
Jeff Hoffart BEd
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