IB World magazine, May 2006
The main articles are:
The Power of Partnerships
Following the December 2004 tsunami, IB World Schools organized a campaign to help schools in Sri Lanka and Indonesia recover. Its horizons are about to expand… More >>
Teaching from the heart
Launched this spring, the IB learner profile is a 10-point summary of the qualities IB students need to develop in order to be truly internationally-minded. It’s no stuffy charter, but a plan for action whose values are designed to reach every corner of the IB world. More >>
The IB’s new vocation
Everyone, it seems, is talking about the knowledge economy and the way in which it will change education in the years to come. As the demand for new, career-related courses grows, could international education be extended to a wider group of students? More >>
Profile: Izamar Alvarez
As executive director of FUNDACEA, of Simón Bolívar United World College of Agriculture, IB alumna Izamar Alvarez is helping to improve farming not only in Latin America, but in the developing world. More >>
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Also in this edition
Editor’s letter
Welcome to the May 2006 issue of IB World, and many thanks to everyone who wrote to tell us how much they enjoyed the new-look magazine. Please keep your letters, comments and submissions coming:
IB World is your magazine, whether you're a student, teacher or coordinator. We'd love to hear from IB alumni, too, so tell us what you've been doing since you left your IB World School.
In this issue, we catch up with the IB schools to schools campaign, find out how the new IB learner profile will work in the classroom and hear about a bold initiative in career-related education. Happy reading.
Ann Oliver, editor
In our next issue
Routes to IB education
The IB is developing ways to make IB programmes available to more students around the world. How is your school helping to fulfil this aim? What could we do to create more access to IB programmes?
New directions
Andrea Lucard is the IB's new development director. What question would you ask her about the organization's evolving strategies?
Copy deadline: July 7 2006. Send contributions to the editor at editor@ibo.org
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