Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is for administrators, coordinators and teachers who wish to enhance their understanding of international mindedness.
The overall purpose for the workshop:
In our highly interconnected and rapidly changing world, IB programmes aim to develop international-mindedness in a global context. This workshop aims to help teachers and whole schools develop learning environments that value the world as the broadest context for learning. It is not a workshop for the faint hearted. Teachers will be challenged to critically explore their own belief, practices and ways of knowing around intercultural understanding, multilingualism and global engagement. They will explore aspects of local and global issues and how these may be addressed through all IB programmes. They will be challenged by a range of current thinking on what it means to be internationally minded.
Conceptual Understandings:
By the close of the workshop, participants should be able to discuss / reflect and explain or show examples of the following concepts:
This workshop is for administrators, coordinators and teachers who wish to enhance their understanding of international mindedness.
The overall purpose for the workshop:
In our highly interconnected and rapidly changing world, IB programmes aim to develop international-mindedness in a global context. This workshop aims to help teachers and whole schools develop learning environments that value the world as the broadest context for learning. It is not a workshop for the faint hearted. Teachers will be challenged to critically explore their own belief, practices and ways of knowing around intercultural understanding, multilingualism and global engagement. They will explore aspects of local and global issues and how these may be addressed through all IB programmes. They will be challenged by a range of current thinking on what it means to be internationally minded.
Conceptual Understandings:
By the close of the workshop, participants should be able to discuss / reflect and explain or show examples of the following concepts:
- Our personal and cultural identities influence who we are as teachers.
- International mindedness starts with understanding yourself in order to effectively connect with others.
- In an IB school, teachers and students are making connections between life in school, life at home and life in the world.
- International-mindedness is about recognizing and reflecting multiple perspectives.
- An inclusive ethos values, supports and reflects the diversity of cultures and perspectives within and beyond the school community.
- The IB documents offer a rich perspective on international education.
- An internationally-minded person strives to demonstrate the attributes of the IB learner profile within and beyond the school community.
- The IB curriculum and frameworks provide opportunities for learning about issues that have personal, local and global relevance and significance.
- A global perspective has a substantive, a perceptual and an action component.
- Internationally-minded learners actively demonstrate responsibility for and commitment to making a difference in the world.
- Critical literacy supports international mindedness.
- Language defines our common humanity and our cultural differences.
- All IB teachers in all subjects respect and promote multilingualism.
- There are other IB PD workshops to further explore international mindedness: Beyond symbolism: Indigenous ways of knowing; Bilingual and multilingual teaching and learning.