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This workshop is intended for MYP and DP counselors, ideally working as part of a continuum of the two programmes. This workshop will provide an understanding of the advantages of a DP/MYP backwards-planning model for counseling for access and success in the MYP and ultimately the DP. Participants will discuss in depth how counselors can identify potential and underrepresented students, how to further the success of students in IB programmes, and will leave with a plan of action encompassing all grades within a school to include outreach to students, parents, teachers and the community.

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Created for MYP and DP teachers, coordinators and administrators, this workshop will enable participants to discover how to incorporate international mindedness into the IB programmes. The workshop will attempt to challenge participants to reevaluate their understanding of international mindedness and help them move from an international/intercultural awareness and appreciation, to one of constructing knowledge and skills that will allow for attitudes to change and global interconnections.

Participants will strive to move from passive to active international mindedness in order to facilitate the authentic inclusion and practice of international mindedness in IB World Schools. Furthermore, participants will be challenged to view international mindedness through cognitive and affective lenses, to develop practical and authentic applications into subjects, and to integrate international mindedness into interdisciplinary activities. The learner profile and IB mission statement will be used as a catalyst for analyzing how international mindedness can be a means (vehicle) to strengthen the continuum between all the programmes. Using current world events and video analysis, modeling learner centered instruction, critical thinking and inquiry methods; participants will leave the workshop with knowledge, skills and an action plan to effectively lead international mindedness.