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2009Presentations and Handouts Available for Download.Please find below a list of the sessions for which the presenters have provided copies of their presentations and handouts. What's Happening in IB: The Global Perspective Join us on the 9th of July for one of our Exciting Pre-conference Sessions!IB Orientation Seminar Reaching All Learners: Making Differentiation Work, Grades K-8 Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction for the Thinking Classroom, Grades K-12 MIRACLE IN RWANDA to be Performed at the 2009 IB Conference of the AmericasLeslie Lewis Sword The true story of Rwandan Genocide Survivor Immaculée Ilibagiza Speakers Announced for the 2009 IB Conference of the Americas!Each year, the IB Conference of the Americas features provocative speeches from a variety of thought leaders in the fields of education and international issues. This year is no exception. We are pleased to announced that the 2009 IB Conference of the Americas will feature speeches from the following invited guests: Welcome to the 2009 IB Conference of the Americas!Welcome to the website for the first ever IB Americas Conference. Our region now includes IB World Schools from South America, Central America, North America and the Caribbean. It is with this significant development that we will draw from the experience of nearly 1,500 schools and many others seeking authorization to offer an IB programme. This year’s theme, New Thinking for a New World, reflects this change and challenges the IB Americas community to explore this enormous opportunity. We expect well over 1,000 members of the worldwide IB community to participate in the four days of inspiration, collaboration, and reflection at the Québec City Convention Centre. The 2009 IB Americas conference will bring together IB coordinators, teachers, administrators, counselors, school district officials, school board members, ministers of education, parents, researchers, and university representatives. Young Women in Countries of Conflict
Since the end of the Cold War, a distressing number of countries around the world have fallen into chaos and have become failing states. More often than not these countries have been torn by civil war based on religion, ethnicity, tribalism, power sharing, or a combination thereof. One of the terrible consequences of these conflicts has been massive humanitarian crisis.
New Ways of Thinking about Citizenship Education
Teaching has always been, to a greater or lesser extent, a way of building bridges between the past, the present and the future. This challenge requires a critical reading by teachers of the conditions under which their duties are performed and the influence of their actions.
Current Brain Research and How it Informs Teaching
The last five years has provided an onslaught of knowledge about the functioning of the human brain. This work has confirmed some long standing theories and disproved others. Because of the significant steps in scanning techniques that can image a brain while it is working, we can make more informed and accurate recommendations for anyone involved in working with the owners of the human brain.
A New Mind for a New World
Doctors. Lawyers. Engineers. That's what our parents told us to be when we grew up. But were Mom and Dad right? Actually, the future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind, people like artists, inventors, storytellers, and caregivers. These right-brained people are the next business elite – the women and men who will power your organization.
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