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January 13, 2012

project managers

Filed under: CAS — Tags: , , — Steve Money @ 8:57 am

“Students should be involved in at least one project involving teamwork that integrates two or more of creativity, action and service, and is of significant duration. Larger scale activities of this sort may provide excellent opportunities for students to engage ‘with issues of global importance’…. (The CAS Guide, 2008, pg.12)

Project managers, be they students or adults, need to draw upon a skills-set that includes the 10 traits that are elucidated in the IB learner profile and more viz. the skills associated with those of a human resource manager –  counseling, motivating, inspiring, managing, and problem solving.

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March 6, 2011

Personal Engagement (part II)

Objective D refers to attitudinal values. Most of the aspects of this objective are linked to the IB Learner Profile.

Let´s have a look at the four aspects of criterion D:

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September 11, 2010

Design Tech: There’s an app for that!

Filed under: Language A — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — Adrienne Michetti @ 10:54 pm

I wanted to quickly share with you a new app that you might be interested in, particularly if you are a teacher of Design Technology and your school or students have access to an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.

iDT

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April 7, 2010

Micro-finance and Building Empathy in the IB Economics Classroom

Providing students of IB Economics with opportunities to enhance their understanding of the real world remains a challenge for all teachers. At a recent Apple Education Leadership Summit held in Prague, Steve Pape of the International School of Prague (ISP) presented an activity that not only helps students understand Development Economics first hand but helps build empathy as well.

Steve challenges students to personally confront issues of development by becoming microfinance lenders. The Kiva website provides students not only with an opportunity to support a microfinance project but a means to think critically about development issues.

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