by admin | Jun 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
For a long time education bothered itself about the detail. Not that it shouldn’t, details are important, but it saw them as the purpose of our teaching. Revision for tests requiring the memorization of facts, with the best grades reserved for those with the...
by admin | May 10, 2019 | Approaches to Learning, ATL, Pedagogy
By Kevin Hawkins Mainstream schools, for historical reasons as well as somewhat self-serving societal demands, traditionally focus on cultivating a very limited range of skills and competencies in their students. But if we want to support the growth and maturation of...
by admin | May 1, 2019 | Pedagogy, Self Management, Service
By Muzna Akbar The International School in Karachi is the first IB World School in Pakistan yet the apprehensions regarding this “new” system become clear when introducing CAS. The way that the program is run at my school is that we integrate it through DP to PYP....
by admin | Apr 13, 2019 | Approaches to Learning, ATL, Pedagogy, Uncategorized
By Camilla Cook I was once locked in a room with a class of thirteen year olds for over two hours. This disturbing situation occurred because Alissa had worked out that she could steal the door handle, leap out of the room, and slam the door behind her, leaving the...
by admin | Mar 1, 2019 | Leadership, Pedagogy, Self Management, Uncategorized
Handling Criticism With Grace and Honesty by Kare Anderson A client just called us to order 5,000 copies of a slender book I wrote years ago. He said that he wished he’d called sooner, before the sides had hardened between the people in his...
