IB Community Theme | Sharing our humanity

IB students - welcome to your own area

Here you will find information about the global issues of the community theme, as well as resources and materials, suggestions for ways in which you can respond to the issues, and links to other relevant websites.

This is the place for you to find out more, to share your understandings, and to turn your newly acquired knowledge into action.

The area For everyone contains postings of general interest.

If you wish to discuss issues relating to the community theme, then visit the forums. Whether you're a PYP, MYP or Diploma student, you can have your say in a forum dedicated to your programme.

Featured posts for students - selected by the site moderation team

"You can bomb the world into pieces, but you can't bomb the world into peace!"

"You can bomb the world into pieces, but you can't bomb the world into peace!"

Michael Franti, Spearhead

Pen Pal

My name is Jennifer Roberts and I'm an American IB DP candidate. I'm a senior and I've taken Spanish for 6 years. I can't seem to learn anything else. I literally can't take it much farther. The fact that I never use it outside of the classroom doesn't reinforce it and I'm not retaining much.

Let's read!!!

we, as students, must encourage everybody we know to read more! nowadays, people don't read as much as they should. i live in Mexico, and there's a bookstore with great advertisements in which they don't want to sell, but tell the people to read more.

i'd like to share it with all of you, so you can also encourage people to read within your community. i'll translate it:

"read. it feels funny"

Institute for Humane Education

The Insitute for Humane Education, located in Surry, Maine USA, is dedicated to creating a humane world through humane education. The institute has been training humane educators since 1996, created the first training and certificate program in the US, and was the first to offer an M.Ed. in humane education. The website has more information about training, workshops and the Master's program as well as numerous resources addressing issues of global concern. A monthly Humane Edge newsletter is also available electronically.

Celebrating the Joy of Easter

Le Jour de la Terre - 22 avril 2008

N'oubliez pas de dire à vos élèves qu'aujourd'hui c'est le Jour de la Terre! Naturellement nos amis canadiens ont des sites super sur Internet. Regardez le Site web officiel du Jour de la Terre. Il y a un vidéo clip sur le thème et la chanson "Joyeux anniversaire..." où l'on voit une usine avec des cheminées qui laissent échapper de la fumée (en guise de bougies)... quand on souffle... l'air pollué va partout... Regardez et passez le à vos classes de français, ça vaut la peine!

Bien le bonjour des classes de français de l'école Ammons à Miami!

Eradicating Poverty

Everyone talks of eradicating poverty but few recognizes the real problem. We're engaged in an economic deadlock, or rather, a monetary deadlock. Equal distribution of wealth is dependent on a neutral monetary unit, but the monetary units in our world are far from neutral, especially the USD. Action needs to be taken in the near future to take out the USD, which is the world's core currency for certain reasons, and establish a Global Monetary System (GMS), and thus permanently eradicating the problem of poverty.

To Japanese students

Hi my name is Aliza
I'm currently attending an I. B. high school in the United States and my school has chosen Japan as our country of the year. I was wondering if you would be kind enough to answer a few questions for me such as:
-what do you think the typical american is like?
-what do we eat?
-how do we dress?
-what do we look like?
-how do we act?
I would also like for you to confirm whether or not the typical American steroetypes of the Japanese are true such as:
-all Japanese are polite
-all Japanese are hard workers

japanese stereotype research for ib

dear ib japanese students,

hi my name is Martin Vue and Im a ib student here in california

im doing a research on what japanese students thinks of american stereotypes for example

what clothes do we wear?

how do we look?

what do we do?

what we like?

how tall are we?

thank you for reading this and please reply asp for this is due soon and i need to finish it thank you if you reply and read this

japanese people reply sooon!!

Dear IB students and teachers,

Japanese IB students

Hi my name is Susan Vang. I am a Sophmore in the IB program at Luther Burbank High School. I'm doing a research on Japanese IB student in Japan, I would like to know what type of stereotypes the Japanese students has about the American people.

For example: