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Quarter One, 2008
China and Mongolia
The IB in China Symposium & Bilingual Teaching Demonstration in Guangdong Country Garden School were successfully held from 8-10 December 2007
Wang Hong presented the latest development of the IB in China to all the participants. Representatives from DP, MYP, and PYP schools reported recent programme development in their schools respectively. Job-alike meetings were held in groups for principals, DP, MYP and PYP coordinators.
Participants also toured at the host school on the first day and observed the school’s IB classes and bilingual ones. This event has been very helpful to the IB world schools and interested schools in this region.
Job-alike Seminar for TOK Taught in Chinese
The pilot schools that are doing TOK in Chinese met again on 10 December 2007 after their last meeting in Beijing in April the same year. Chen Zhen who is the leader of job-alike team gave a presentation. There were demo-classes from pilot schools and sharing TOK resources.
Working with Associates and Universities
On 2 February, Wang Hong, IBAP Regional Representative for China and Mongolia visited Mr Tao Xiping who is the Adviser to the Chinese National Chief Inspector, President of Asian Pacific Federation of UNESCO Clubs and Associations, Vice President of the World Federation of UNESCO Clubs, Centres and Associations, Vice President of the Chinese Society of Education and Honorary President of Beijing Association of Societal Sciences Circles.
They discussed the ESD (education for sustainable development) in IB world schools and UNESCO Club schools in China, as well as possibilities in cooperation for IBAP conference that will be held in Beijing.
Network
Chinese TOK Teachers’ Network
Since the job-alike meeting on 10 December 2007 at GCGS, there has been more communication among the Chinese TOK teachers. The number of registered members for the website http://www.chinesetok.com/ has increased to 96. There are 257 messages left on the website up to now. There were once 173 teachers on-line at the same time. The leader of the Chinese TOK teacher network, Mr Chen Zheng, is thinking about developing this website for better service to the teachers within the region.
IBSCM schools
PYP
Central Area Schools
The PYP Coordinators met at Suzhou, Eton House on 21 January 2008.
They discussed the role of Single Subject teachers within the POI and how they were facilitating the use of the PYP planning approach with Single Subejct teachers. They shared some unit planners by single subject teachers. In addition, they also read and discussed some articles related to single subject teaching.
As a result of this meeting they set dates in the future for job-alike meetings for single subject teachers in PE, Art, Music and Chinese.
Southern Area Schools
An Early Years Network for Inquiry met on 14 January at Kingston International Kindergarten. Around fifty teachers from K3 to Year 2 participated at this meeting.
The South China Teacher Network was held on 20 February in two locations, Quarry Bay for Hong Kong Island Schools and Renaissance for Kowloon and NT schools. Like-minded professionals were invited to meet up with other teachers who taught the same year groups to exchange ideas and strategies.
According to Kassandra Boyd, PYP coordinator from Hong Kong Academy, they were scheduled to meet on 27 February at Hong Lok Yuen. Mario Gauci from the Asia-Pacific office would be able to attend. They would discuss sub-group meetings coming up and perhaps review what had taken place at the last meeting.
John has invited class teachers who would be involved in their P6 (or in some cases P5) Exhibition to join them for a sharing meeting / sub group session at Kingston International School. The meeting was scheduled for 28 February.
MYP
Northern Area Schools
Beijing City International School held this area’s AOI Festival for the MYP students and teachers on 28-29 Februray. An update will be given.
DP
Northern Area Schools
Susan Hall, the DP coordinator from International School of Tianjin, did a survey among the IB schools in the region in order to organize meetings on 21-25 January, 28 January – 1 February and 11 – 15 February. These meetings are designed for the moderation of Internal Assessment, and the subjects identified for this were: English A1, Chinese A1, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and TOK. As such, these meetings are most appropriate for teachers who are currently teaching the programme, and who have student work for assessment.
Central Area Schools
On 15 December, Suzhou Singapore International School hosted
a job-a-like day for all IBD Chinese/Mandarin subjects. According to its DP coordinator Kevin House, around forty teachers attended with a view to sharing good practice and forming stronger relationships between schools in the region.
Southern Area Schools
According to Mr John Green from Li Po Chun UWC, Hong Kong, the Southern China group of IB DP coordinators had a meeting on 25 January 2008. Participants were from King George V School, Hong Kong, Canadian IS, Hong Kong, Li Po Chun UWC, Hong Kong, Sha Tin College, Hong Kong, Renaissance College, Hong Kong, Utahloy IS, Zeng Cheng, Australian IS, Hong Kong, Victoria Shanghai Academy, Hong Kong, Xiamen IS, American IS, Guangzhou, and Guangdong Country Garden School, Shunde.
Many of those present felt that there was a need for more Chinese language workshops at all levels (A1, A2, B and ab initio) and maybe the association should arrange some in a similar way to the TOK workshop of about 18 months ago.
They discussed many issues such as core curriculum implementation, ESL students language A1 choice or English level improvement, workshop registration and demonstration lesson in IB workshop, recruiting experienced IB teachers, and etc.
Wang Hong, Regional Representative China and Mongolia
Xia Juan, Personal Assistant
Email: china@ibo.org
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Guangdong Country Garden School student giving a presentation
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