Two-day workshop for IB middle years programme held at RMS

Islamabad
An extensive two-day Workshop for International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme was held at Roots Millennium School, One World Campus, E-11/4, says a press release.
IB-authorised workshop leader Ms. Amanda Lenk, service learning coordinator at the Overseas School of Colombo, Sri Lanka, trained a group of 25 comprising IB MYP management and teaching faculty.
The participants were given a platform to delve into the depths of the IB philosophy, expediting the IB mission statement to discover how project-based learning, triangulated with conceptual inquiry and constructivism. The teachers, in this regard, were rigorously trained on drafting well-whetted lesson plans using a wide range of teaching methodologies that foster communication, collaboration, affection, reflection, cognition and research. Hands-on activities were an important part of the workshop that made participants discover how challenge-based, resource-based and reciprocal learning is helping schools to develop individuals with apt potential and profound intellect.
Ms. Amanda educated the participants about 3-D curriculum and how it is different from the traditional 2-D curriculum taught in many schools. The IB MYP Programme also addresses a wide range of approaches to learning (ATL) that nurture 21st century skills among students, enabling them to improve their preservance, mindfulness and emotional management. The MYP assessment criterion ensures well-designed formative and summative assessments aligned well with the IB goals and objectives. The participants enjoyed knowing about criterion-based assessment, which caters subject-specific objectives, timely self-assessment and flexibility.
Mrs. Sabina Zakir, director of the IB programme, witnessed the workshop on both days and assured effective implementation of the learnt IB inquiry-based methodologies in the curriculum at RMS One World Campus E-11/4, Islamabad, to facilitate students, enabling them to become life-long learners and internationally-minded global citizens.
Roots Millennium Schools Chief Executive Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq, TI, pledged the vision of offering latest and relevant international qualifications and professional development opportunities to students and teachers to embrace the upcoming challenges of the modern world. He also assured the commitment with IB qualifications in future by offering more IB programmes in campuses of Roots Millennium Schools in future.