The blogging team for the Middle Years Programme is a high quality group of experienced MYP teachers.
Arts
Marcela Bidegain lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina was the senior moderator for MYP Arts from 2002 to 2009. She also mentors online MYP workshops both in English and Spanish. In addition, she runs teacher training workshops on MYP Arts, MYP In Action and the Areas of Interaction in the IB Americas region. Marcela has also been involved with the Diploma programme since 1994 and now she is a Team Leader, a DP Theatre Arts External Assessment examiner and an Extended Essay examiner.
In addition to her roles with the MYP and Diploma Programme, Marcela
- is a theatre critic and researcher in the Centro Cultural de la Cooperación in Buenos Aires.
- runs intensive week long courses for trainee teachers on the teaching of theatre arts for the Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago de Chile
- has been awarded a research grant to investigate the relationship between the arts and social development giving her the opportunity to participate both in national and international conferences related to these and wider issues
- published “Teatro comunitario: Resistencia y Transformación social” by Atuel (2007) and “Vecinos al rescate de la memoria olvidada. Teatro Comunitario” by Editorial Artes Escénicas (2008).
Language A
Adrienne is continuing her graduate studies in New York city. She has many years of MYP experience as a teacher of Language A in London, Qatar and in the Far East.
Language B
Robert Vanier lives in Montreal, Québec, Canada. He has been teaching in the MYP for 20 years and was actively involved in early developments of the programme at his school, one of the original pilot MYP schools. There he developed a successful cinema course for all year 4 MYP students that slowly lead to the development of Film as a fully accepted area of MYP study.
Robert has evaluated MYP schools worldwide and has trained school evaluators in various regions of the MYP world. He leads face-to-face workshops with the IB at all levels of MYP professional development, and provides regular consultancy services to a number of educational groups.
Over the years Robert:
- has been consulted by the IB and taken an active role in the ongoing development of the MYP Arts subject area
- has served as an MYP Language B moderator
- has been senior moderator in MYP arts and OCC faculty member since its inception
- guide writer of the Arts and Areas of Interaction publications for the IB.
Most recently Robert’s interests have turned to Web 2.0 technologies and online professional development as a way to better investigate the potential of the MYP model.
Mathematics
Gabriel Solari started teaching Mathematics in 1988 and his first contact with the MYP was in 1998 when he started working in St Xavier’s College in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Gabriel claims to have immediately fallen in love with the MYP philosophy; he claims there were many reasons but mainly “… to show that Mathematics is alive and connected with real life.”
In 2000 his school started with the IB Diploma and this gave him the opportunity to teach in both programmes. In 2004 he was appointed as coordinator of his school’s international programmes: the MYP, the IB Diploma and IGCSE.
During the last decade Gabriel has been involved in different MYP activities such as Moderation, leading workshops in Latin America and in Spain, and in the OCC as the Spanish-speaking faculty member for Mathematics.
Gabriel lives in Buenos Aires with his wife and three children.
Sciences
Barclay Lelievre has been teaching biology and physics for 15 years in Canada and for a time in Hong Kong. This is his fifth year leading MYP science workshops (face-to-face and online).
He is the lead author and series editor for the MYP Global Issues books being published by Oxford and IB based on the UN millenium development goals. I am also one of the co-authors of the follow up to MYP Interact – called MYP Assess.
Barclay is currently the Admissions Director at The York School in Toronto.
Technology
Kathy Snow has taught MYP Technology for just over 10 years, and worked as head of IT in her last school in Sotogrande, Spain.
As well as being an experienced online mentor, Kathy is also a face-to-face workshop leader for the IBAEM and a MYP Technology moderator. Her most recent work for IB is as part of the team revising the MYP Technology guide.
Kathy lives in Canada with her young family.
