The first meeting of the 2008-2009 school year:
Monday, September 8th
The IB community spans 128 countries, including over 2,300 schools and over 600,000 students.
As the IB celebrates its 40th anniversary, we invite IB World Schools all over the world to come together
in our first IB global lesson on one of the key challenges facing the world - global poverty.
Schools are invited to teach the IB global lessons at any time during the month of October 2008.
(International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is on October 17).
Outline lessons, on ethical implications of global poverty will be available for Theory of Knowledge, and
for humanities within the Middle Years Programme. Each will be for about 60 minutes, and will not require
extensive preparation from teachers. Schools may wish to make global poverty a theme across
programmes, and there will be suggestions for how other subjects can also consider global poverty.
Outline lessons plans will be posted to the IB community theme website in early September 2008.
Schools wishing to develop their own lessons will be welcome to share these with the IB community on
the website.
We would then like to encourage students, teachers and parents to share their responses to the lessons,
and to continue their discussions on the issue of global poverty in online forums on the IB community
theme website, from October 1st until November 15th, 2008.
The IB community theme aims to strengthen the whole IB community (students, teachers, parents, IB staff
and others) as we look together at global issues and how we respond to these.
IB community theme website: http://communitytheme.ibo.org
Community and Service
It is part of the IB program that is strongly recommended, but not tracked, and not mandatory.
IB MYP wants to promote in students the intrinsic feeling of seeing beyond doing a limited number of hours, as just
something else they have to do. It needs to come from the heart.
Some suggested activities include Clothes drives, Food banks, prisoners families – bringing in stuff, Seniors in Engelwood.
Contact and meetings.
Idea will not come from teachers – better if it comes from the students (it has to).
Parent comment: best service is led by professionals (it needs a bigger organization, such as a school or church group
to go into the food bank, not just individuls).
Student Led Conferences
The school is working to set it up with 6th grade teachers.
Students and parents sit together with checklist - teacher is facilitator.
Planning first conference at end of 1st report card - after which will be scheduled
Seot 22nd + 4 wks. = Oct 23rd
Format of conference would be, for example:
---this is why I got this grade,
The conference is scripted;
IB Community Theme
Ms. Helme - Chile, IB school
IB, MYP, DP - joining the schools, their language B is English - working to get their students online interact/communicate
Pen Pals share experience and education, and get to know someone from another country.
Lowe’s Grant for School Beautification Grant
Need someone to write a proposal for a grant; Come up with idea - up to $5,000 - anything that Lowes sell to fix up the school
Anyone interested?
Feedback:
Question to IB parents: What do you think of the program so far? What are your expectations?
What is your vision of what students should possess?
Internationalism – what can we do to focus on this?
Ask the students – what are they working on, what they want to do, how they would like to help…
Story about the person who went to Afghanistan - invited into a home for 3 cups of tea – he was so motivated that he
eventually built ten schools in Afghanistan.
Homework - parents ask your child what is their learner profile
Inquirer
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asks questions, such as why, how, when
Communicator
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can communicate in different ways
Caring
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feelings of others
Principled
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doing right even if no one is looking
Balanced
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each part
Knowledgeable
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student
Risk taker
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do it anyway (do it a different way)
Reflective
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look at past to do better in future
Thinker
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take time, think through
Open minded
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open to new challenges, idea and people
Dr Mohapatra expressed Dr Miller’s regrets that he couldn’t be here.
So happy to see how many parents attended
We need to recognize how fortunate we are to be here, and to have our kids in such a program, with all the facilities …
We need to be aware globally…
Parent Comments
Parent 1
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coming in at last quarter - didn’t get the picture, didn’t really get engagement
Need an orientation for anyone joining midstream.
Link to IB website and community theme…
Delila Hernandez - explained, nothing new, in existence since 1968…IB consists of Best Practices
(best ways to teach a chlild + intnl awareness + holistic awareness)
Parent 2
Magazine - IB World - quarterly; shares what they are doing in different parts of the world. Can we get this magazine?
Parent 3
Progress Book - website and password - getting issued next week
7th and 8th grade parents – will be the same as before
Understand that it takes some teachers a while to get the results online
If delayed – communicate with teacher they will be helpful.
Depends on class – generally keep the test papers, available for conferences
Do understand that some teachers have a lot of students…so response
Any issue – cal Dalila anytime
Parent 4
Word of Praise - parent very pleased with engagement between 5th grade and 6th grade
Emails responded within 20 minutes (credit to 6th grade teachers)
Parental Involvement
To participate in events and after school programs the County has to check you out - background check - ADDitions
Go to https://www.ocps.net/lc/central/hjo/parents/Pages/ADDitionsVolunteers.aspx
Home --> Parents --> Parental Involvement --> Become a school volunteer --> On line application.
Meetings
Agreed time - 6:30pm for future SAC meetings, 2nd Monday of the month.
Next Meeting
Monday October 13, 2008 at 6:30pm