IB Asia Pacific Newsletter

January - March 2006

Professional Development

We at IB Asia-Pacific Events would like to convey our appreciation to the IB School community for being so supportive of our efforts to provide continuous quality workshops and conferences. We are also very grateful for your patience and endorsement of the changes we have been implementing over the year as we strive to improve our services and support.

To continue our dynamic growth and to provide an exciting and elegant participant experience, we have lined up a series of events this year which we hope you will enjoy.

These workshops are currently available for registrations online:

St Paul's Grammar School, Sydney, Australia (10% late charge)
Overseas School of Colombo, Sri Lanka (10% late charge)
Somerset College, Gold Coast, Australia

Sign up for these workshops early to avoid disappointment and, as usual, please provide proof of payment to validate your registrations.

Global Convention on Language Issues and Bilingual Education

The inaugural Global Language Convention 2006 will be held in Singapore from 8 - 10 April 2006. Organized by IBAP, the focus of the event will be on Language Policies and Practice. The Convention will address issues such as:

1. Second language and Additional language Teaching Models
2. Fostering Additive Language Acquisition
3. Mother tongue maintenance/support

The Global Language Convention offers educators and teachers a unique opportunity to interact with their peers through breakout sessions, workshops, networking, job-alike sessions and plenary lectures by distinguished speakers. This event will bring together specialists, educators and language experts, vendors and sponsors in a professional and focused environment.

There will also be a “Networking Night Out!” for those who would like to mingle with fellow participants and get to know each other better in an informal setting. Take the opportunity to explore Singapore and have an adventure with the creatures-of-the-night at the Night Safari, or take a cruise and dine at the ancient and historic Imperial Cheng Ho Chinese junk, or hop on the double-decker Hippo Bus for a moonlight tour of Singapore.

Online registration begins 15 January 2006. Register by Tuesday, 28 February 2006 to enjoy early bird prices. Please visit http://www.ibo.org/ibap/conferences for more information and to download the brochure.

IB Asia-Pacific Events Registrations Go Online!

You have helped us with your loyalty and support and in return, we are giving back by starting a new online registration system. This will certainly ease confusion and questions with workshops capacity, payment, and confirmation of places. Online registration is now available for the Global Language Convention and we are currently working on workshops which start from July onwards. Here are six simple steps to online registration:

1) Visit our website www.ibap-events.com. Click on 1st Global Language Convention.

2) Download the Information Pack just below “Event Name” and the Hotel Reservation Forms at the bottom of the webpage.

3) Enter your IB Authorized/Candidate School Code (for IB Schools only*).

4) Fill in Coordinator’s Name, Address of School, Email Address of Coordinator, School’s Telephone and Fax numbers (please indicate country and area code).

5) Fill in participant’s names and email address(s) under Convention Package. If you wish to attend any of the three Networking Night Out! events, refill the names of the participants and email address(s).

6) Choose form of payment. If paying by Telegraphic Transfer or Bank Draft, please indicate and follow the Payment descriptors at bottom of webpage (please send us your proof of payment thereafter). If paying by credit card, please ensure that you have been registered as a member under Paypal. This is a secure online payment and registration with Paypal is free. Once you have a Paypal account, you can then make payment for all IB Asia-Pacific events online. To join Paypal, an eBay company, please go to http://www.paypal.com.

*For non-IB Schools, please download the Registration Form at the bottom of the webpage, complete the form and send it together with proof of payment copy to ibapevents@ibo.org.

Ed Lawless, Teacher Education Manager
Rosalyn Goh, Events Manager

Chanderni Devi, Events Associate

Email: ibapevents@ibo.org

Upcoming Workshops 2006

Please click here for a list of upcoming workshops in the Asia Pacific region.

New IB Asia-Pacific Email for all your events queries

As part of our transformation and growth to provide more workshops and conferences, we have revamped the Events Department with a new email address: ibapevents@ibo.org.

Please use this new email address for all communications. The current email address will still continue to work.

Introducing Edward Lawless

Originally from New York, Edward began his career as a Secondary English teacher in the New York State school system, and began his IB experience in 1987 as Head of English at the American International School on the Cote d’Azure. Since then he has worked as an IB English / TOK teacher at the United World College in Singapore, as Head of English at Hale School in Perth, and as Head of School at All Saints Anglican School on the Gold Coast. Edward looks forward to his new role and to working with the IB community throughout the Asia Pacific region.