IB community theme: sharing our humanity

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IB community theme sharing our humanity

• July 2008

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International Baccalaureate

• The IB community -
• a global community of
• 2,378 schools
• 644,000 students
• in 128 countries
• 70,000 teachers plus parents, staff, examiners
  and other colleagues
• . and growing

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IB community theme

• aims to bring together and strengthen the whole
  IB community
• students, teachers, parents, IB staff, and all
  who are connected with IB
• while engaging with and taking action on a
  number of global issues.

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IB community theme sharing our humanity

• The IB community theme 2007 2010
• sharing our humanity
• includes

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IB community theme sharing our humanity

• Global poverty

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IB community theme sharing our humanity

• Education for all

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IB community theme sharing our humanity

• Peace and conflict

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IB community theme sharing our humanity

• Global infectious diseases

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IB community theme sharing our humanity

• Digital divide uneven access to information and
  communication technologies

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IB community theme sharing our humanity

• Disasters and emergencies

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How do we engage with the community theme?

• Encourage IB World Schools to share current work
  and activities that relate to sharing our
  humanity
• The IB will highlight current work and activities
  in schools that relate to sharing our humanity

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How do we engage with the community theme?
The IB encourages and facilitates schools to
explore and address the theme further through

• Regular classroom teaching
• Special projects
• Community service
• individually and/or collaboratively with other
  IB World Schools

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How do we engage with the community theme?
Schools can explore and address the theme

• by adjusting the focus and slant of normal
  classroom work
• not by adding to it
• and within the existing curriculum frameworks

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In the Primary Years Programme

• Within the transdisciplinary themes.
• Examples
• Global infectious diseases
• within how the world works
• Global poverty within
• Sharing the planet

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In the Middle Years Programme

• Within normal subjects and requirements
• Examples
• Selection of relevant literature in languages A
  and B
• Global infectious diseases within sciences and
  technology
• Selection of appropriate relevant material in
  statistics
• Selection of topic of personal project

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In the Diploma Programme

• Within normal subjects and TOK
• Examples
• Relevant books within language programmes
• Studying global infectious diseases within the
  science group project
• Using statistical examples relating to ICT
  access, income levels, disease infection rates
  etc in Maths.
• Ethical aspects of global poverty within TOK

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Coordination between programmes

• The community theme can engage
• students on two or three IB programmes
• IB and non-IB students
• on a common topic, e.g. global poverty.

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Special projects / service

• Work beyond or different from regular classroom
  teaching e.g. research, special days, assemblies,
  conferences, action, service
• within schools
• between schools
• The IB provides opportunities for
• networking
• posting projects
• recognition

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Sharing our humanity objectives

• By the end of the community theme sharing our
  humanity, in April 2010, we hope the following
  objectives will result
• Enhanced student knowledge and understanding of
  global issues relating to the theme
• Greater understanding within schools of how
  global issues can be addressed within IB
  programmes
• Practical actions relating to the theme topics

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Sharing our humanity objectives

• A bank of resources and materials for future use
• A web platform for future themes
• A strengthened IB community

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IB community theme sharing our humanity

• Examples of how the whole IB
• community is engaging with
• the community theme

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Sharing our humanity IB actions

• IB is addressing the community theme
• at conferences
• in conference themes,
• keynote speeches and
• presentations
• in features
• in IB World magazine
• and on the website

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Sharing our humanity IB actions

• The IB is facilitating the community theme
  through
• the new dedicated website
• http//communitytheme.ibo.org
• recognition of activities and projects

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The IB community theme website

• Online environment for students, teachers,
  parents, IB staff and others, related to the
  community theme.
• First opportunity for students and parents to
  contribute to an IB website.

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The IB community theme website

• Separate areas
• For students
• For teachers
• For everyone (including teachers and students)
• To report actions taken by the IB community

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The IB community theme website

• A developing collection of
• Information and resources
• Ideas and opinions
• Suggestions for action
• on global issues
• with contributions
• posted by the whole
• IB community

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The IB community theme website

• Publication of projects and reports of actions by
  the IB community
• Notice board for collaboration between schools
• Forums
• Free posting, moderated by the IB

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Sharing our humanity community actions

• Sub-regional associations are reflecting the
  theme in their conferences and meetings.
• Schools are reporting what they are already doing
  and engaging further with the theme.
• Some schools are basing the PYP exhibition on
  issues of the theme.

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Community actions Education for all

• Students from Regiopolis-Notre Dame Catholic High
  School in Kingston, Ontario, Canada built a
  childrens playground in the Dominican Republic.

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Community actions Education for all / digital
divide

• Students at Bali International School, Indonesia,
  have developed the Taman Bacaan Community
  Library in Bali, providing books and computers
  for the local community
• opened February 2008.

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Community actions Global poverty

• Bahrain School students
• studied poverty in development economics in class
  as part of their IB Diploma Programme economics
  course.

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Community actions Global poverty

• Bahrain School students
• did something about it in the local community
  by improving living conditions for poor local
  expatriate workers through
• Raising funds
• Decorating an apartment for 37 people, providing
  drinking water and a new bathroom

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Community actions Global poverty

• and brought back their experience and knowledge
  to the economics classroom in considering
  economic theory.

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IB global lessons on poverty
Encourage IB World Schools to teach a common
lesson on ethical aspects of global poverty in
October 2008 in the Diploma programme - in
TOK in the Middle Years Programme - in
Humanities
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IB global lessons on poverty
September 2008 Lesson outlines available on the
community theme website, with suggestions for
extension work in other subjects October 2008
Lessons taught October 17 International
Day for the Eradication of Poverty October until
mid-November 2008 Online discussion on the
community theme website
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IB community theme sharing our humanity

• Next steps.
• If you havent done so already, visit
• http//communitytheme.ibo.org
• Read what is there see what other people are
  doing
• Contribute yourself
• Take up / develop the theme in your school
• Tell others about the theme and website
• Get others involved