IBDP aims to produce students who excel in both breadth and depth of knowledge—physically, intellectually, emotionally, and ethically. Handong Global University's IBEC DP program allows teachers to deepen their theoretical understanding of the elements of the DP curriculum based on their understanding of IB philosophy, and to learn and apply practical methods for designing and implementing a meaningful DP curriculum according to the context.
This course explores the philosophy, rationale, and methods for delivering the IB curriculum to students. It explores the knowledge and skills teachers need for effective and diverse teaching approaches, with an emphasis on developing a deep understanding of the relationship between teaching and learning in all IB programs (PYP, MYP, DP).
This course will teach how to design a curriculum that reflects students’ diverse learning needs, cultural values and backgrounds, and language proficiencies. It will also cover the approach, strategy, and system used by IB World School to design a written, assessed, and delivered curriculum to be taught. The course will focus on developing practical knowledge of how IB DP is designed and conducted, and how it is assessed to support student learning.
This course prepares educators to evaluate and reflect on teaching and learning within the IB DP. It places an emphasis on developing an understanding of the interrelationship between teaching, learning, and assessment, and provides an overview of the different assessment approaches applicable in IBDP. The course will also consider the assessment approaches that support the learning needs of diverse students. The examination of the process of reflective practice for both students and educators in the context of international education and its role in enhancing teaching and learning will serve as the major focus of this course.
Collaboration, investigation, and reflection are three ways that can improve the quality of teaching and learning in schools. In particular, continuous reflection serves to improve the educator’s quality of teaching for the sake of achieving learning goals. Teachers who reflect individually and with their peers can model effective learning strategies for their students and deepen their understanding of good teaching practices. Through the process of reflection, educators in this class may share their thoughts on various issues, policies, and developments in the IB Program.
Handong Global University's IBEC PYP program encourages teachers to deepen their theoretical understanding of the elements of the PYP curriculum based on their understanding of the philosophy of IB. Candidates will also learn and apply practical methods of designing and implementing a meaningful PYP curriculum according to their contexts, and provide opportunities to do so with feedback from IB practitioners.
This course explores the philosophy, rationale, and methods for delivering the IB curriculum to students. It explores the knowledge and skills teachers need for effective and diverse teaching approaches, with an emphasis on developing a deep understanding of the relationship between teaching and learning in all IB programs (PYP, MYP, DP).
International educators must focus on the learner's learning in order to develop their students' knowledge, understanding, skills, and attitudes. These factors are important for IB World Schools as they design and deliver the curriculum. This course will help teachers design and evaluate a curriculum according to the learner's diverse learning needs, cultural values, background, and language proficiencies, while focusing on the IB’s approach, strategy, and structure for establishing a curriculum. The course also focuses on developing practical knowledge about how PYP programs are designed, interpreted, and implemented in IB World Schools and how they are assessed to support student learning.
This course focuses on the interrelationship of teaching, learning, and assessment for the development of skills necessary to assess teaching and learning within IB PYP. Students will learn various assessment methods applicable to IB PYP and will cover examples of assessing the learning needs of various students. The process of identifying processes of assessment and reflection that enhance teachers’ and students’ teaching and learning will be the primary content of this course.
Collaboration, investigation, and reflection are three ways that can improve the quality of teaching and learning in schools. In particular, continuous reflection serves to improve the educator’s quality of teaching for the sake of achieving learning goals. Teachers who reflect individually and with their peers can model effective learning strategies for their students and deepen their understanding of good teaching practices. Through the process of reflection, educators in this class may share their thoughts on various issues, policies, and developments in the IB Program.
Professor Eun-Sill Rhee is currently the head professor at Handong Graduate School of Education and a Handong TEP supervisor. She developed the holistic global citizenship curriculum of “Ban Ki-moon Institute for Global Education in Support of UNAI (IGE),” established to continue education in global citizenship, and served as the director of the Handong Education Development Center. She will be teaching the course “Developing Professional Learning Communities” with Professor Jenny Kim.
Professor Jenny Kim is currently an assistant professor at the Handong Graduate School of Education, Handong TEP supervisor (for English speakers) and the director of IBEC programs. She worked at Taejon Christian International School as an IB DP/MYP teacher from 2005-2014 and from 2018-2019 and is currently an active IBEN member as an IB Workshop leader, Visual Arts Examiner (English portfolio), DP course outline and AFA Reader, DP Consultant, and School visit team leader/member. Professor Kim teaches “Approaches to Teaching & Learning in the DP” and “Developing Professional Learning Communities.”
Dr. Wrightson has been an international educator since 1999 and started her IB career in 2001, working in education settings in the United States, Slovakia, Brazil, China, and Korea. She holds a Master’s in English education, a post-master’s in educational leadership, and an Ed.D in Educational Leadership and Management. Dr. Wrightson has served in a variety of roles throughout her IB teaching career, including IB Workshop leader, School visitor team leader/member, Consultant, Supervisor, and Curriculum reviewer. Additionally, as an international educator, she has held the positions of a MYP teacher (for ages 11-16), MYP coordinator, DP teacher, DP coordinator, CP coordinator, and PK-12 IB administrator. She has served as a school administrator at two IB schools located in South Korea: Taejon Christian International School and Chadwick International School in Songdo, and teaches the ‘Curriculum Design and Delivery’ and ‘IB Assessment’ for DP in English.
Professor Jeong-Suk Yoon has worked at Branksome Hall Asia in Jeju, as well as other international schools in Indonesia and China. She is currently an MYP/DP Korean Language and Literature teacher, but is also an IB DP Korean Examiner, IB MYP Korean Moderator, IB Korean Subject Specialist/Consultant, IB Official Translation Consultant, and curriculum-related roles. Professor Jeong-sook Yoon teaches ‘Curriculum Design and Delivery’ and ‘IB Assessment’ for DP in Korean.
Professor Kwang-Mi Shin worked as an ELL teacher in Maryland Public Schools since 2007 and as a PYP educator at an international school in Korea since 2013. Currently, she is the PYP ELL Program Coordinator but also has experience as a PYP Interim Co-coordinator. She holds a master’s degree in English education and is currently pursuing a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction at Kyungpook National University’s Graduate School of Education. As for her IB experience, she is an IB workshop leader, consultant, school visit team leader, and currently consults PYP candidate public schools in Korea. Additionally, she translated the book ‘Concept Based Inquiry in Action’ co-authored by Carla Marschall and Rachel French into Korean. Professor Kwang-Mi Shin teaches the courses “PYP Curriculum Process” and “PYP Learning and Assessment”.
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