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Quarter Two, 2008
Japan and Korea
Congratulations
Dr Thomas Penland, Head of Taejon Christian International
School, South Korea received an authorization letter dated 24
April to offer the PYP. This is the second authorization letter that
Dr Thomas Penland has received as he, together with Ken
Gunther, DP Coordinator led Taejon Christian International
School to Diploma authorization in 2004.
Mr Robert Risch, Head of Nagoya International School, Japan
received an authorization letter dated 13 May 2008 to offer the
Diploma Programme.
PYP East Asia Network Meeting
Mr Clarence Combs, Chair of the PYP Network Group and PYP
Coordinator at Osaka International School, organized and
hosted our Spring PYP East Asia Network meeting on 4 April.
The group shown in a photograph below discussed such agenda
items as hosting of workshops, sharing resources and ideas,
single subject teachers, language programs in PYP, portfolios,
and action at schools.
As a result, on 24 April Toni Bell, PYP Coordinator at Yokohama
International School, together with the Japanese language team
organized and hosted a PYP sharing session for Japanese
teachers. 16 teachers who came from six schools attended the
session and shared their practices.
Likewise, Kelli Holm, PYP Coordinator at Tokyo International
School, together with the P.E. team, will host a sharing meeting
for P.E. teachers on Monday 27 October.
Hiroshima International School will host our Fall PYP Network
meeting on Monday 6 October. Mario Gauci, IB Asia Pacific PYP
Associate Regional Manager, will be attending this meeting.
MYP East Asia Network Meeting
Mr Gwyn Underwood, Chair of the MYP East Asia Network group,
organized the spring meeting and it was hosted by Mr Darryl
Mann at Katoh Gakuen on 25 April 2008. The meeting was
attended by coordinators from seven schools. The meeting
covered such areas as the accessing issues of MYP materials,
bilingual in-school trainers, standardization exercise, academic
honesty and a presentation on “Creating Student-centered
Assessment” given by Caroline Rennie, MYP Coordinator at
Osaka International School.
The fall meeting is scheduled to be held either on 30 October or
3 November at K. International School Tokyo.
Diploma Coordinators’ Meeting
Mr Peter Heimer, Chair of the DP Coordinators Meeting/ Osaka
International School, is organizing the May DP Coordinators’
meeting which Mr James Hatch, DP Coordinator at Fukuoka
International School FIS is hosting on 27 May. In addition to the
two DP coordinators meetings a year, DP coordinators are
actively involved in the sharing of the know-how and expertise
throughout the year.
Kyoko Bernard, Regional Representative Japan/Korea
Email: japan@ibo.org
Snapshots
PYP East Asia Network Meeting
MYP East Asia Network Meeting
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