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2023

IB Global Conference 2023 - Adelaide, Australia

As the CISH’s MYP Coordinator, I had the pleasure of attending the IB Global Conference in Adelaide Australia last week thanks to the efforts of Dr. Francis Pang and Madame Du Juan. It was the first face-to-face global conference for the Asia-Pacific region since the pandemic and it was a wonderful opportunity to get together with my peers to discuss and learn about the future of IB and best practices for students, teachers, and schools moving forward in our rapidly changing world.

The conference was book-ended with two engaging and relevant keynotes. The introductory keynote was “Taking An Inclusive Approach to Support Wellbeing in Schools” by Dr. Helen Street and it focused on Contextual Well-being. Contextual Well-being supports an inclusive approach to whole school well-being and learning engagement through the development of a healthy school context. She discussed the importance of shifting our understanding of ‘being well’ from the individual to the collective; and our understanding of ‘acting well’ from the self to the social. The closing keynote was “Teaching for tomorrow: How to future-proof our schools, students and educational systems” by Michael McQueen and it looked at the rapidly changing face of technology in education framed around educationalist John Dewey’s warning of “if we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.” It highlighted new technologies, how to implement them effectively, and how to effectively prepare our students for their future.

I also attended several breakout sessions that looked at school culture and identity, transitioning from the PYP into the MYP, shifting pedagogical mindsets, rubrics, assessments, and validity in the MYP, constructing teacher performance indicators, and how school systems and cultures inhibit learning. Most importantly, I attended 3 sessions with the lead MYP curriculum designer Nat Erbes on the upcoming changes to the MYP program through Enhancing the MYP. Instead of subject-specific changes, the IB is looking at the MYP holistically as a whole to enhance it in order to: prepare all learners to shape their future with transformational IB learning experiences, empower educators to adapt, design and deliver a dynamic future-facing curriculum, and support schools to cultivate inclusive learning communities and realize the full value of the MYP.

- MYP Coordinator - Sean Miller

2023年IB 全球會議--澳大利亞阿德萊德在Francis Pang董事長和Du Juan女士的大力支持下，我有幸以CISH的MYP協調員的身份參加了上周于澳大利亞阿德萊德舉行的IB全球會議。這是自疫情爆發后，亞太地區首次面對面的全球會議，讓我們有機會與IB其它教育者一起，共同討論和了解IB的發展前景，以及探討如何讓學生、教師和學校更好地適應這個瞬息萬變的時代。會議以兩篇有吸引力和相關性的主題發言作為開場和結尾。開場白是Helen Street教授的“采取包容性的方法促進校園快樂”，其主要內容是“環境幸福”。環境幸福提倡以全面方式，營造健康發展的學校環境，支持采取包容性的方法使全校師生都能享受到快樂，并積極參與到學習中來。她談到了將我們對“健康”的理解從個人轉移到集體的重要性；和我們如何看待“表現良好”這個概念，從自己到社會。大會的結束語以Michael McQueen的“為明天教學：如何證明我們的學校、學生和教育系統的未來性”為題，討論了教育中技術的快速變化，圍繞著教育家約翰·杜威的一句話為例，即“如果我們像教昨天的學生一樣教今天的學生，我們就會剝奪他們的明天。”，指出了如何有效地實施，以及如何有效地為學生的未來做好充分的準備。此外，我也參加了幾次分組會議，其中包括：討論了學校文化和認同，從PYP過渡到MYP，轉變教學心態、準則、評估和MYP的有效性，構建教師績效指標，以及學校制度和文化對學習的影響。重要的是，我與MYP首席課程制定專家Nat Erbes一同出席了參加了3個會議，關于MYP項目的變化。為了使 MYP真正的價值得以體現， IB并不因特定的學科而有所變化，相反， IB把 MYP看作一個完整的整體，使所有的學習者都做好了用改革后的 IB學習經驗來塑造他們自己的將來，使教育人員能夠適應、設計并提供具有活力的、面向將來的課程，并且幫助學校建立一個包容的學習共同體。

- MYP 協調員 - Sean Miller