Exploring...personalization, localization and globalization...in an IB World
IB Africa, Europe, Middle East regional conference
Welcome to the web page for the Regional Conference for IB Africa, Europe and Middle East. From October 6-8, well over 600 members of the worldwide IB community came together, in Marrakech, for three days of inspiration, collaboration, and reflection. IB turns 40 in 2008, so we also celebrated four decades of progress.
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Available presentations
- A professional learning model making teachers learning visible by Jenny Little
- A useful conceptual model for connecting international classrooms by Phil Morgan
- An inquiry into School PYP Induction programmes for teachers new to PYP by Angela Steinmann
- An international perspective on school leadership by Nicholas Tate
- Authenticity and assessing learning in Diploma Programme group 2 languages by John Israel
- Becoming Truly International: The IB at 40 by Monique Seefried
- Building learning power: a project in Personalization by Colin Hall
- CAS Activities and International Organisations: A Case Study of SEK Schools + UNICEF by Andrew Atkinson and Nieves Segovia Bonet
- CAS, now integrating the IB Learner Profile into the IB Diploma by John Cannings
- Core values: The new TOK, Extended Essay and CAS by Sue Austin and Nick Lee
- Creating a Culture of Thinking that supports IB Programmes by Jan Humbleby and Susan Loban
- Desperately Seeking Sudan: Challenging the Mind, Challenging Stereotypes by Mark Exton
- Developing performance management system by John Birchall
- Developing Real Learners - using the IB Learner Profile to develop a better world by Robert Thorn
- Developments in Diploma Programme assessment-academic, technical and structural by George Pook
- Developments in the Diploma Programme by Tristian Stobie
- General introduction to the Diploma Programme by Proserpina Dhlamini-Fisher and David Newsam
- General introduction to the Middle Years Programme by Luz Maria Gutierrez and Heleen Tims
- Global Students Embrace Global Perspectives through Language by Twyla Bright
- How can we prevent cultural prisms from becoming 'cultural prisons'? by Eugene Stevelberg
- IB Professional Development in the future by Victoria Pierlot and Anthony Tait
- IB Programmes: 2008 and beyond by Judith Fabian
- Internationalising Curriculum: Framing theory and practice in international schools by Michael Wylie
- Iraq - The destruction of education by war and occupation by Mike Powers
- Minus 24: Students who do not achieve the Diploma by Roz Trudgon
- Model United Nations: developing students’ soft skills to meet university’s admission requirements by Veronica Sullo
- Promoting IB programmes to your school communities by Jenan Al-Haddad and Caroline Revol
- Talk together weaving reality out of idealism by Andrew Brown and Alistair Robertson
- The Diploma Programme Authorization Process by Proserpina Dhlamini-Fisher and David Newsam
- The IB Community theme: sharing our humanity-introduction and update by Boyd Roberts
- The International Global Citizen's Award by Boyd Roberts
- The organisation and implementation of a local IB school network by Philip Herrick
- The role of faith schools in the IB community by Sue Austin
- The role of scope and sequences in the written curriculum by Sandy Paton and Ann Le Diraison
- The role of the Ombudsman by Tony Flatley
- Update from the Director General: The Global Story by Jeffrey Beard
- Vygotsky's cultural historical ideas in IB MYP candidate school by Nataliya Kurdina and Olga Yakovleva
Plenary sessions keynote speakers
JoAnn Deak
Peter Dalglish
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Kimmie Weeks
"Weeks is deliberate, soft-spoken and reflective, at peace yet teeming with ambition, a product of unrelenting violence and remarkable circumstances."
- The Amherst Student
Read the Kimmie Weeks feature in IB World magazine
Thank you again to all participants and presenters who contributed in making this edition of the Africa, Europe, Middle East regional conference a great success.
