Middle School Education

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Middle School Education An International
Perspective Kevin Hawkins
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• IBO
• International Baccalaureate
• Organisation

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568,000 IB students at 2,127 schools in
125 countries.
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• IBO
• Primary Years Programme
• (PYP)
• Middle Years Programme
• (MYP)
• I.B. Diploma

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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.
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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.
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CIS Council for International Schools
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• International
• British International
• American International
• National/IB
• Innovative curricula

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• Why Middle School?
• Arusha and Prague
• International Curricula, Approaches, Philosophies

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The Grain of the Brain?
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Understanding By Design

• Wiggins and McTighe

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UBD Backward Design

• Essential Questions
• Enduring Understandings
• Authentic Performance
• Assessment for Learning

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X Grade 6 Band 78 IT/ Exploratory Support
EAP H 40 mins Grade 6 IT 78 IT /Health
Exploratory Support EAP 35 mins Study Hall
Grade 78 Band and Choir - 75 mins
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Too often we give children answers to questions
rather than problems to solve
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"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
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• Coherence
• Connection
• Less is more
• Depth not coverage

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Putting Hands Around the Flame reclaiming the
radical tradition in state education Alex
Bloom, Pioneer of Radical State Education
MICHAEL FIELDING
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• 21st Century Learning
• Initiative www.21learn.org
• ELMLE www.elmle.org
• NMSA www.nmsa.org
• IBO www.ibo.org
• ISP www.isp.cz
• khawkins_at_isp.cz