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June/July 2007
Volume 1, Issue 3
Past Issues: Vol 1, Issue 1 / Vol 1, Issue 2

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Should cellphones be permited in classrooms?

Yes(53.5 %)
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Open to the world
By: Irene Davy, Director, Sunnybrook School

It allows our children to acquire global knowledge, skills and attitudes while engaging in a relevant, challenging and engaging curriculum.

Our world is rapidly changing. Globalization is creating new challenges for educators, resulting from the new and complex demands of communication, culture and many other aspects of human interaction. Alongside the challenges are the wonderful new opportunities the new reality presents. The International Baccalaureate (IB) provides a framework for educating students from age 3 to 18 years that embraces these opportunities and rises to the challenges.

Global education is best characterized as an approach to learning. It allows our children to acquire global knowledge, skills and attitudes while engaging in a relevant, challenging and engaging curriculum.

The IB applies progressive teaching and learning methods to a carefully crafted curriculum. Culture and perspective are the basis of an education that fosters understanding and open-mindedness. Students explore culture in their lives, beginning with their family, school and community, before they explore other cultures. As they progress through the global curriculum, they develop the habits of mind that will enable them to view the world with a critical eye and an open mind.

The IB global curriculum is future oriented, exploring the challenges of social, political and environmental issues and their possible solutions. World-mindedness is pursued with careful attention to the students' need to learn actively and joyfully. IB educators are attuned to the importance of delight and wonder in the development of the young child.

Discover all that the IB curriculum offers at Sunnybrook School