Middle School Education

An International Perspective

Kevin Hawkins

IBO

International Baccalaureate

Organisation

568,000 IB students at

2,127 schools in

125 countries.

IBO:

•Primary Years Programme

(PYP)

•Middle Years Programme

(MYP)

•I.B. Diploma

“ The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect”.

“These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right”.

CIS

Council for International Schools

•“International”

•British International

•American International

•National/IB

•Innovative curricula

• Why Middle School?

• Arusha and Prague

• International Curricula, Approaches, Philosophies

“The Grain of the Brain?”

Understanding By DesignUnderstanding By Design

Wiggins and McTighe Wiggins and McTighe

UBD = Backward DesignUBD = Backward Design

Essential Questions Enduring Understandings Authentic Performance Assessment for Learning

Essential Questions Enduring Understandings Authentic Performance Assessment for Learning

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X= Grade 6 Band; 7&8 IT/ Exploratory; Support; EAP

H= 40 mins: Grade 6 IT; 7&8 IT /Health;; Exploratory; Support ; EAP35 mins: Study Hall

Grade 7&8 Band and Choir - 75 mins

“Too often we give children answers to questions rather than problems to solve”

"The method people naturally employ to acquire knowledge is largely unsupported by traditional classroom practice. The human mind is better equipped to gather information about the world by operating within it than by reading about it, hearing lectures on it, or studying abstract models of it."

Schank and Cleave

CoherenceConnection

Less is moreDepth not coverage

Putting Hands Around the Flame: reclaiming the radical tradition in state education

Alex Bloom, Pioneer of Radical State Education

MICHAEL FIELDING

•21st Century Learning Initiative www.21learn.org •ELMLE www.elmle.org•NMSA www.nmsa.org•IBO www.ibo.org•ISP www.isp.cz•khawkins@isp.cz

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