CAS (58 total posts)

Professional Development Opportunities for IBDP CAS Teachers

September 17, 2013
Triple A Learning’s highly successful Online IB Teacher Workshops are available through OSC, providing teachers with an ideal and cost-effective professional development opportunity for teachers and school staff who cannot take time away from school. From October...

creativity

August 14, 2013
In my school days my left-handed friends were hounded by the good sisters of St. Joseph in Elementary School and later bullied by the De La Salle brothers in Middle and High School. To be left-handed was considered a sign of the devil they argued. There seemed to be...

The Vacation Question

August 9, 2013
This week and throughout this month schools resume and students and teachers return after their summer, or winter, mid-year break. While we most often associate vacations with fun and not learning, Matt Davis is an educational blogger for Edutopia and he explores this...

“The noble heart”

July 24, 2013
Last night I downloaded my most recent copy of Rolling Stone. It was eagerly anticipated. I knew that this edition had been ‘a sellout’ largely due to a controversial, albeit clever-marketing, decision to put Jahar Tsarnaev on its cover – usually a place of fame. I...

Courage

July 18, 2013
On Friday July 12 Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban for attending classes, addressed hundreds of young people at the United Nations, urging them to use education as a weapon against extremism. We should not forget that she just...