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IB Asia Pacific Newsletter

Quarter Two, 2008

Middle Years Programme

It’s that time of year … Asia Pacific schools on a northern

hemisphere academic year are drawing to a close and

numerous staffing changes are taking place.  MYP coordinators

are reminded to add incoming staff to the OCC and delete

remove departing staff. Workshop leaders who are changing

schools and/or departing the region are also requested to notify

the IB Asia Pacific office at ibapmyp@ibo.org.

 

IBAP MYP Schools Update

There are currently 103 authorized MYP programmes in the Asia

Pacific region. Interest in the programme continues to grow

steadily. Since 31 March this year, the majority of school visits

conducted by IB Asia Pacific staff and other team members

have been for schools’ first evaluation since authorization. This

reflects the MYP’s “coming of age”.  Three schools from across

the region  Australia and China) have also completed their MYP

pre-authorization/consultation visits and are looking forward to

their authorization visits in the coming academic year.

Forthcoming publications include:

  • The Principles into Practices Guide August 2008
  • MYP Coordinator’s handbook 2008-09 1 July 2008
  • Language A guide

The Maths guide is now being translated into Chinese, French

and Spanish.  January 2009

Draft documents were produced and consultation with interested

science teachers on the Science Review Forum on the OCC is

being carried out.

Professional Development

The 2008 MYP workshops in Jakarta, Adelaide and Sydney were

consistently well attended  with 550 MYP teachers attending 24

workshops.

MYP coordinators are reminded to register early and, if the

workshop is showing full, add teachers’ names to the waiting

list.  If the list warrants it, we will add an additional section.

The number of participants registered for MYP online workshops

is very high. Details of online workshops can be found at

http://tripleaworkshops.ibo.org

 

Languages and the MYP in Asia Pacific: An observation

A significant change has transpired over the past four years in

Asia Pacific. Schools have been developing significantly

improved practices reflected in the sophistication of their

language policies in general and, most importantly in their

practices in supporting second language acquisition and mother

tongue development.

A snapshot of this data is in the tables below. They indicate the

languages being offered in MYP authorized schools

Lang. B

No. of schools offering this lang.

French

33

English

32

Chinese

28

Japanese

14

German

14

Indonesian

15

Spanish

7

Italian

4

Greek

3

Hindi

4

Bengali

1

Thai

3

Tamil

3

Filipino

1

Dzongkha

1

Lang. A

No. of schools offering this lang.

English

58

Chinese

12

French

5

Japanese

3

Korean

4

Swedish

2

Indonesian

4

Thai

4

Vietnames

1

Hindi

1

Dutch

1

German

2

New IB publications: language learning across all three IB programmes (From the OCC)

Two new publications relating to language and learning in all three IB programmes have been published on the OCC. These are:

These documents relate to the following sections of the

Standards and Practices document: A2  9/10, B1 20, C1 14/15,

C2 3/7 and C3 9. 

They are intended to support the implementation and

establishment of these standards and practices and will be

linked with professional development courses.

For any further information, or if you have any comments or

questions please contact the second language learning advisor,

Carol Inugai Dixon at carol.inugai-dixon@ibo.org.

Patrick Ritter, MYP Regional Manager

Curtis Beaverford, MYP Associate Regional Manager

Frances Chia, Personal Assistant

Email: ibapmyp@ibo.org