As we wind down 2007 and look toward the new year. I am struck by how excited I am to come back from winter break. Sure, I am excited about the vacation, but am even more driven to get this IB program up and not just running, but fabulous. I know its going to be work, but I am totally up for it.
Something you might not know about me is that I am a music junkie and almost always have some song or another stuck in my head. For the last few weeks the song was Under Pressure by David Bowie (Vanilla Ice sampled this song for Ice Ice Baby). Right now, I am making a conscious effort to change my internal channel. Doing new things can be stressful. Doing new things under a time crunch even more so. Sometimes I think that we focus on the stress we are under rather than the excitement. We let that stress rob us of the opportunity to feel the joy of learning that we are trying to teach our students.
So that's why I am singing (in my head for the sake of all around me) Let's Get It Started. Let's get the excitement started, Lake Shore. Let's step out of our comfort zones and embrace the new; embrace the challenge! Below you will find a list of links. These links will take you to things that other schools have done with the IB MYP. There is a wealth of information out there.
What is your song?
http://www.aisb.ro/secondary/myp.pdf This is a general guide to the Areas of Interaction.
http://www.corningareaschools.com/ib/index_files/Page1975.htm Link to IB lessons in the classroom.
http://194.82.135.197/myp2006-01/myp_8_techn_guu_0601_1_e/2 WOWWIE!! If you didn't think our ESE babies could do this, click here and scroll all the way down!!!
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Valuable stuff!!!I have been using the term "explode the moment" quite a bit. But you know what, nothing else seems to fit. The more IB material I read, the more IB school websites I review, the more coordinators I speak with the more committed I become to this task. Never once did I waiver on the abilites of our students, but the more I more, the more I know that we are on the "WRIGHT" track. This is so who I am for our students. We are on target...our foundation is primed. How many activities have we done that involve at least one of the themes...without even knowing it. I believe the more informed we are the better prepared we are to challenge our students. LSMS will not ever be the same again. How about Expanding Minds....Expanding Horizons?
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