Join in the first ever IB global lesson

The IB community spans 128 countries, including over 2,300 schools and over 600,000 students. As the IB celebrates its 40th anniversary, we invite IB World Schools all over the world to come together in our first IB global lesson on one of the key challenges facing the world—global
poverty.

Schools are invited to teach the IB global lessons at any time during the month of October 2008. (International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is on October 17).

Outline lessons, on ethical implications of global poverty will be available for Theory of Knowledge, and for humanities within the Middle Years Programme. Each will be for about 60 minutes, and will not require extensive preparation from teachers. Schools may wish to make global poverty a theme across programmes, and there will be suggestions for how other subjects can also consider global poverty.

Outline lessons plans will be posted to the IB community theme website in early September 2008.

Schools wishing to develop their own lessons will be welcome to share these with the IB community on the website.

We would then like to encourage students, teachers and parents to share their responses to the lessons, and to continue their discussions on the issue of global poverty in online forums on the IB community theme website, from 1 October until 15 November 2008.

The IB community theme aims to strengthen the whole IB community (students, teachers, parents, IB staff and others) as we look together at global issues and how we respond to these.

IB community theme website:  http://communitytheme.ibo.org