Ibrahim Babatunde's podcast: Recent Episodes
Ibrahim Babatunde
Marie-France Labelle partage avec nous son expérience en tant que directrice du Centre STEM à l’Ecole internationale de Genève en Suisse. Elle nous explique comment l’apprentissage transdisciplinaire permet une pratique significative, créative et innovante. STEM/STIM signifie « science, technologie, ingénierie et mathématiques ». Cet outil permet de travailler les compétences liées à la recherche scientifique dans le monde réel.
Director of IB World Schools, Adrian Kearney, extends a warm welcome to the latest cohort of IB authorized schools, marking the 2000th PYP school since 1997.
In this episode of IB Voices, we are joined by Katherine Dix and Shani Sniedze-Gregory, the authors of "The impact of the IB Primary Years
Programme (PYP) on student wellbeing and other related social-emotional learning outcomes," to learn more about the research study and what we can glean from it as educators and parents.
Chantal Thomas partage avec nous le cheminement que son établissement en France a mis en place pour offrir à leurs élèves un double diplôme, à savoir le diplôme de l’IB et le diplôme du Baccalauréat français. Elle évoque les défis et les réussites que son établissement a rencontrés lors de la mise en œuvre de ce double programme.
Frédéric Bergeron partage avec nous la façon dont son établissement au Canada met en place les approches de l’apprentissage afin de soutenir les élèves et améliorer leur apprentissage. La discussion donne des exemples concrets que chacun pourra méditer pour son propre établissement.
This February marks the fifth annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science. We hear from astrophysicist and science advisor Erin Macdonald, who tells us about her role as a science advisor in the Star Trek franchise, the real (and fictional) role models that influenced her career and how she landed in Glasgow for her PhD. She is a Middle Years Programme (MYP) and Diploma Programme (DP) graduate based in the United States.
IB leaders from across the globe gathered for a roundtable discussion on working more closely together to support each other in the new landscape they are all facing and the new PSP focus on school culture to improve learning environments.
IB leaders from across the globe gathered for a roundtable discussion on developing agency for all leaders, teachers, students, and parents so that resilience, flexibility, responsibility, self-assessment, and adjustment are part of everyday learning.
IB leaders from India and Singapore gathered for a roundtable discussion on the importance of feedback across different grade levels; as students have been more responsible for evaluating their own work, how can schools continue to build skills for students and teachers in using assessment 'for' and 'as' learning.
IB leaders from India and Singapore gathered for a roundtable discussion on innovating assessment to better serve the needs of students, focusing on how schools are responding to the changing rules and the knock-on effect for end of year exams at all levels.
IB leaders from India, Singapore and Belgium gathered for a roundtable discussion on the employability of graduates and preparedness for the 4th industrial revolution.
Language development, which is one of the four components of the Career-related Progamme (CP) core, can be nurtured using diverse approaches. How can educators embrace this flexibility and support students to expand their own horizons? In the third episode of a series focused entirely on the CP, IB Voices sat down with Chad Lower, CP coordinator at North Kansas City High School (and member of the IB Educator Network (IBEN) whose roles include site visit team leader, consultant and workshop leader), to understand how language development works in his school and how educators can create meaningful learning experiences, also in the current context of distance, online or blended learning and teaching.
Understanding the Career-related Programme (CP) reflective project criteria is beneficial for supervisors because they can provide concrete advice and lead students through this exciting journey. IB Voices recently sat down with Wilma Shen, CP coordinator at Renaissance College in Hong Kong, who shared her schools’ strategies for the reflective project, supervisor training, and marking standardization in the second episode of a series focused entirely on the CP.
IB leaders from across the globe gathered for a roundtable discussion on what can be done to address current issues – the impacts on schools and whether the differences are regional or global. They also look at how markets are changing due to the extended changes in student and teacher movement and the impact on the IB’s preparation for university placement.