IB Community Theme: Sharing our humanity

IB community theme: sharing our humanity

Join in the first ever IB global lessons

The IB community spans 128 countries, including over 2,000 schools and over 600,000 students. As IB celebrates its 40th anniversary, we invite IB World schools all over the world to come together in our first IB global lessons 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 for 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 lesson plans will be posted to this 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 (please use the tag: "global lessons").

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.