Presenting
the
IB ARMS 2012 Symposium
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General Information - blue
Disclaimer - green
Continuum Sessions - yellow
DP Sessions - brown
MYP Sessions - pink
PYP Sessions - green
How to Register – light beige
General Information
• Date: Saturday, November 10, 2012
• Location: Aurora Hills Middle School
1009 So. Uvalda St.
Aurora, CO 80012
• Time: 8:30 AM – 2:50 PM – 5 hours credit
Registration opens at 7:45 AM
• Cost: $50 per person includes continental
breakfast and box lunch
• Note: This conference will take place in a wireless environment.
Participants need to bring a laptop or tablet to use in their session.
Disclaimer
This symposium is not an official IB training, but is an opportunity
for IBARMS member school teachers to network, share best
practices, and discuss approaches to curriculum, instruction, and
assessment in this subject area. This does not take the place of a
required IBA-approved workshop.
IB ARMS views a symposium as an opportunity to focus on a
"specific topic (e.g. "Inquiry in the PYP," "Integrating the Areas of
Interaction", "Group 4 Internal Assessment") and is usually
geared toward more experienced teachers.
Continuum Sessions
Coaching IB Through
Lesson Study
The Five Year Evaluation
Suzi Geimer, Leader
Heide Pace, Leader
In this interactive workshop, participants will learn how to
maximize professional collaboration to immediately impact
student learning. While educators realize the benefits of
collaboration, they may lack the specific skill set to be
effective. Participants will learn several protocols to use in
working with teachers along with specific coaching
techniques. Based on the assumption that teaching can be
empirically and objectively studied and improved, lesson
study is a professional development process that teachers
engage in to systematically examine their practice. Through
lesson study the classroom becomes the teacher's laboratory
for continuous improvement resulting in better teaching and
learning.
Are you facing program evaluation soon?
The program Evaluation symposia is designed as
an opportunity to understand the evaluation
process across the continuum.
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investigate the parts to the evaluation,
standards and practices, and develop a better
grasp of the scope and requirements of program
evaluation. You will look at your program’s
practices, share best ideas, and reflect on the
connections between the three programs and
their common elements.
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Diploma Sessions
Clarifying CAS
Theresa Biggs, Leader
As we all know, CAS is fraught with
challenges. This one day session will
address the challenges of the
reflection process, strategies CAS
Coordinators may use to motivate
both students and advisors, and
explore what IB is looking for when
monitoring CAS. Please come with
questions as this is a day built around
conversation.
Theresa Biggs is the Senior CAS reader for
North America.
Extended Essay Success -Supervision and Management
of the EE
Tisha Allan
The IB Extended Essay too often is a roadblock
for the IB Diploma Candidate. The path through
this independent project can be smoothed and
student success increased. This session provides
• an understanding of the role of the
Extended Essay in the Diploma Programme
• a look at requirements and strategies for
facilitating student success and minimizing
supervisor frustration
• opportunities to discuss problems and
develop solutions
• guidance in developing a workable
Extended Essay school plan
You will discover that with a minimal time
investment, you can have greater success and
less stress for both you and the IB Diploma
students.
Diploma Sessions (cont.)
Visual Arts – Electronic
Submission
Travis Krause, Leader
"Will the world end in 2012? Who
knows… But, we do know that the IB
Visual Arts submissions for grade
awarding will be done electronically for
the May 2013 session. As your students’
leaders, you will need some tactics for
thriving during these changes and
maintaining your sanity. Participants in
this symposium will be given the
background and an overview of the esubmission process and strategies for
navigating this new system. It is
important for you to note that this year
all submissions are due April
10th!!! Bring your Curriculum and
exemplars of best practices."
Middle Years Sessions
HOS/Coordinator 101
Ryan Masciotra, Leader
This symposium session is intended for
new MYP coordinators and
administrators. The objectives of the
session include understanding the
philosophical and administrative
requirements of the MYP and how to
implement/sustain them with an MYP
program. This will include identifying
requirements for upcoming verification
and/or evaluation visits, monitoring the
unit planning process, supporting staff on
globally connected curricula, and utilizing
the MYP Assessment Criteria.
Integrating Technology
in the MYP
Joe Smith, Leader
The goal of this workshop is to explore the
structures necessary for teaching MYP
technology with integrity at schools where
MYP technology is not time-tabled as a
separate subject group in one or more years
of the programme. Participants will explore
strategies for planning the integration of
learning objectives from MYP technology with
the content of another subject group.
Participants will consider school-based
supports and structures that are necessary for
coordination of an integrated MYP technology
programme.
Middle Years (cont.)
MYP Summative and Formative Assessment:
creating, grading, recording, and reporting
Lou Marchesano, Leader
Participants should bring copies of MYP Unit planners that they are getting ready to teach
with copies of the summative assessment tasks designed for the unit. Participants will review
how to align summative assessment tasks with MYP objectives, create formative assessment
tasks and learning activities to prepare students for the summative task and differentiate
instruction according to the different levels of achievement described in the assessment
criteria rubrics. We will also examine how MYP assessment criteria align with common core
standards as seen through the command terms and student understanding. We will also
review how to use formative and summative assessment scores to determine MYP
achievement levels for reporting as required by IB for authorized MYP schools and how to
begin to move the school's grading system in accordance with MYP grading practices and
current literature on standards-based grading.
Participants should bring with them a copy of their subject guide, MYP Command Terms
document, and MYP unit planner with assessments. Participants will have opportunity to
create and share assessments so bringing a laptop is expected.
Middle Years (cont.)
Service Learning
Personal Project
Don Marsh &
Vicky Virnich, Leaders
Anne Frazier, Leader
Session Description Pending
The MYP Personal Project is a
significant student-directed inquiry
produced over an extended period,
completed by all students in the final
year of the MYP. It holds an
important place in the MYP and
reflects the student’s experience in
the program. This session will
provide an opportunity to learn
about the Personal Project itself as
well as provide suggestions for
implementation for your students
and teachers.
Primary Years Sessions
Common Core Standards & PYP
Digital Portfolios
Michael Schooler, Leader
Maureen Shields, Leader
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“Discriminate
and justify a position using traditional
lines of rhetorical argument and reasoning” --
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“Articulate the position of self and others using
experiential and material logic”…From the 5th
grade Colorado State Standards.
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IB Mission Statement: The International Baccalaureate
aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young
people who help to create a better and more peaceful world
through intercultural understanding and respect….
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These programmes encourage students across the world
to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who
understand that other people, with their differences, can
also be right.
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The IB Mission statement calls for us to facilitate the
growth of students who can articulate another person’s point of
view and understand that they might be right. In order to that we
first have to understand and develop our own points of view and
the skills necessary to communicate them. The Common Core
Standards have student expectations aligned with our mission
and beliefs and inquiry questions built right in. Come to the
symposium and explore the standards and see how they align
with what we are already doing in PYP.
What are Digital Portfolio’s?
What would you like to know and learn about Digital
Portfolios?
What is the purpose of Digital Portfolios? Are they a
way to celebrate learning, capture and store evidence,
reflection, feedback, and goal setting? Want to know
more?
Geared toward PYP teachers for use with students and
professional development.
In this one-day workshop we will explore several
different tools that are user friendly and student
appropriate. We will be working with Google doc,
Google sites, Livebinder and Dropbox to show how
Inquiry, IB attitudes, use of technology, and writing
samples can be collected and stored to show evidence
of learning. This workshop also is appropriate as a
professional learning documentation of your teaching
abilities and skills.
Primary Years (cont.)
Evaluating POI
Erin Gaskins, Leader
As PYP schools, our task is to ensure that “our
POIs remain the definitive experience from
the student’s perspective.” Why is this at the
core of the PYP approach? How can we
engage in meaningful evaluation of our POIs
to lead to a more cohesive, focused
experience for our students? How can we use
content area standards, assessments and
ideas to strengthen, rather than distract from
our transdisciplinary approach? What does IB
have to say about aligning the Common Core
State Standards with our POIs? This session
will provide participants the opportunity to
discuss challenges, consult anchor documents
and share ideas to increase our ability to use
POI evaluation to bring the POI to the
forefront of the experience for our students.
Learning Language and
the Language Policy
Christina Allem, Leader
In this one day symposium, we will study the
role of language and the PYP language policy.
We will start by examining language learning
as related to popular myths and what the
professionals have to say about them, and the
IB standards as related to language. Then, we
will study the criteria and rationale of PYP
language policies, and view examples of
school’s policies. Finally, we will share some
practical classroom strategies that we do as
practitioners in the language classroom. This
symposium is open to any PYP educator
whether in the regular classroom, second
language classroom or ESL classroom.
Primary Years (cont.)
Single Subject Planner
Development
Jane Wisner, Leader
This workshop is designed for single subject
teachers including music, P.E., art, and media
teachers as well as special education teachers
who teach in a self-contained classroom. The
workshop will review the essential elements of
the PYP and the inclusion of these elements
within the planner. Participants will have an
opportunity to examine existing single subject
planners and work with job-alike colleagues to
develop planners to be used in their classrooms.
Registration Information
REGISTRATION will be available on the IB ARMS website
beginning Friday, October 5. Go to www.ibarms.org.
Note: It is critical that the participant name and email be
entered at the time of registration. Our conference is
wireless and all communications will be via mail.
HOTEL accommodations are available at the
DoubleTree by Hilton
13696 E. Iliff Place Aurora, CO 80014
303.337.2800
Reservations can be made through: 800.446.8667 or
http://doubletree3.hilton.com/en/index.html?WT.srch=1
Reservation Code: IBA Cost: $89.00 per night (includes breakfast)
Pay with official school check or credit card & Bring tax exempt certificate to
waive taxes