Dissertations / Theses: 'International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme'

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Wikström, Nermina. "Alternative assessment in primary years of international baccalaureate education." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Education, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8012.

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The purpose of this study is to determine what alternative forms of assessments are being practiced in a public school with an international programme and to explore the teachers` attitudes towards the use of alternative assessment procedures. Various assessment models and strategies have been investigated and discussed, as pre¬senting a part of the educational practice in the primary classrooms that engage the International Baccalaureate/ Primary Years Programme at the elementary school level (age range 6-11) in the years 0-5.

While defining my research problem, I have started from hypothesis that practicing of alternative assessment has an important positive role in the international schools supporting, promoting and improving student learning.

International schools are facing both challenging and complexity of assessment pro¬cess while striving to apply both national and international programs` recom¬menda¬tions concerning the testing.

Alternative forms of assessments are being used in conjunction with other forms of assessment, such as standardised tests, in order to assess both student perfor¬mance and the intentions of the International Baccalaureate/ Primary Years Pro¬gramme.

This paper investigates what alternative assessment practices (portfolio, perfor¬mance assessment, Exhibition, self-assessment) are being applied and used in the same school where the standardised tests are also being applied and used (text book tests, teacher-made tests, local and national test).

The hypothesis was supported and the study findings suggest that various types of assessments are needed to be utilized in order to fairly evaluate students` needs as well as that alternative assessment has an important positive role meeting individual student’s needs supporting a process of learning.

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Hardwick, Gail C. "Teachers' Perceptions of Reflective Practices Within an International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6331.

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The International Baccalaureate (IB) standards recognize reflection as an integral part of the framework and the fabric of the Primary Years Programme school, as it is embedded in the foundational standards and practices of the inquiry-based IB teaching model. However, teachers in an IB Primary Years Programme school located in the southeast United States struggled with being reflective practitioners. Guided by John Dewey's reflective thought, the purpose of this bounded qualitative exploratory case study was to examine teacher perceptions of reflection practices in an IB Primary Years Programme school. Research questions were drafted to ask about teachers' perceptions of their reflective practices, how teachers' perceived reflective practices aligned with IB's teaching model, and beliefs about the school-based support and resources teachers needed to implement reflective practices. The selection criteria included teachers with at least 2 years of teaching experience who had been to at least 1 outside IB training. Ten teachers, chosen through purposeful sampling, completed a 2-week reflective journal and participated in a semistructured interview. Based on the open-coding and inductive analysis patterns emerged, leading to themes; including lesson reflections, planning, time, and training. Based on the findings, a project, a white paper, includes recommendations to address the teachers' perceptions of reflective practices that will be presented to the school as well as the district. This improved instructional change may provide positive social change in the culture of reflection for teachers and help them and to better differentiate instruction for students.

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O'dell, Kathleen Alyce O'Dell. "HOW PRESERVICE TEACHERS EXPERIENCEBECOMING INTERNATIONALLY MINDEDTHROUGH PRIMARY YEARS PROGRAMME CERTIFICATION." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1502679007714987.

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Redmond, Christopher Ian. "An exploration of the nature of democratic curriculum development in the context of the International Baccalaureate Organization's Primary Years Programme." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.446567.

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Oates, Susan Rosemary. "Does the International Baccalaureate's Primary Years Programme facilitate students' motivation toward self-regulatory, autonomous learning?" Thesis, Durham University, 2016. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11732/.

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The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether the International Baccalaureate’s (IB) Primary Years Programme (PYP) motivates students to become self-regulated learners. Boerkaert’s model of self-regulated learning is particularly drawn on through this research. Questionnaires were given to 20 teachers and their 404 students from twelve schools in eight countries. The student questionnaire was developed, piloted, distributed and analysed. The Problem in Schools questionnaire was given to the teachers of the students in the study to ascertain their stance toward autonomy support. Five of the schools were IB curriculum schools and the other seven comprised UK National Curriculum, South African and Nigerian schools. The study found that 83.5% of the total students surveyed attained a high total self-regulated learning score. Examining the data and the published curricula backgrounds of the schools demonstrated that, although the IB’s PYP does motivate students to become more self-regulated, other curricula schools also promote student self-regulation. The emphasis of the study shifted to the importance of the individual teacher in the development of self-regulated students. Teacher training is seen as of paramount importance in producing autonomy supportive teachers who encourage self-regulated learners. The data suggested a modification to Boerkaert’s model of self-regulation and a revision is proposed to include an emergent level of self-regulation provision for younger students. Aspects of the curriculum are also raised in the conclusion as to the components of a curriculum that supports the importance of student autonomy.

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Mcleod, Mok Ham-wing Wendy. "Teacher learning in a context of comprehensive school change a case study of an international school in Hong Kong during implementation of the international baccalaureate primary years programme /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B4357208X.

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Haddock, Lucy. "A comparison of teachers' beliefs of the use of inquiry teaching, origin of knowledge of inquiry teaching, and student achievement between International Baccalaureate and non-International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme schools." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/6282.

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The goal of improving student achievement is of paramount interest to all public schools. The focus of this research was to determine the difference between inquiry based teaching strategies and student achievement. Additionally, the researcher investigated the origin of inquiry based teaching knowledge and International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IBPYP) affiliation. IBPYP affiliation was studied due to the nature of the IBPYP as an inquiry based philosophy of teaching. The McGill Strategic Demands of Inquiry Questionnaire (MSDIQ) was used to determine teacher beliefs of inquiry based teaching strategies. Student achievement was measured using Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test 2.0 (FCAT 2.0) levels. Results from the MSDIQ indicated strong beliefs among participants of inquiry based teaching indicators within three domains: planning, enactment, and reflection. The researcher recommended further research into the origin of inquiry based teaching strategies knowledge to determine accurate professional development from districts that require inquiry based teaching strategies in evaluation systems. In addition, further research was recommended to determine the relationship between IBPYP affiliation and student achievement.
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Robertson, John Eric. "An analysis of the role of International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme Coordinator." Thesis, University of Bath, 2011. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.555746.

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International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes are increasingly prevalent, yet lack systematic study of their implementation and leadership. This enquiry analyses the role of IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) coordinator in implementing the MYP in a variety of school settings. Empirical research involved interviews with experienced coordinators and case studies of an international private, a national private, and a national public school. It focussed on school setting and its impact on coordination, curriculum implementation, key functions of coordinators, and approaches to accountability and professional development. The research found, first, that a primary aim of MYP coordination, facilitating links between subjects and between middle and high schools, was viewed by coordinators as compelling though ambitious. Second, schools' pre-existing organizational, resource, and external accountability settings often presented coordinators, particularly in national public schools, with difficulties, primarily logistical. Third, the subject-based structure of respondents' high schools provided avenues for disciplinary implementation but also presented structural and cultural barriers to collaborative interdisciplinary planning. Fourth, coordinators typically had much responsibility with little formal authority. They sought therefore to overcome above barriers through key functions, termed 'guide alongside', 'facilitator', and 'professional developer'. These functions were effective in developing trust and credibility with teachers, fostering constructive discourse, and enlisting the authority and structural support of senior managers. Fifth, MYP's approaches to accountability and professional development were viewed as complementary and constructive. The MYP emphasized collaborative partnership with participating schools in the evolutionary development of its curriculum framework. Accordingly, coordinators demonstrated 'creative professionalism' with this nascent programme, taking leadership opportunities within their schools and for lB. This approach differs from many depictions in middle management literature, in which subject leaders struggle with conflicting, externally-imposed, responsibilities for collaborative school improvement and teacher evaluation. Significant implications of this study include: for middle management research, the importance of school setting for understanding structural and cultural barriers to curriculum implementation; for education policy, greater consideration of 'collaborative partnership' as a means for school improvement; and for practice, the value of 'creative professional' development opportunities.

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Kobylinski-Fehrman, Margaret J. "The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme and its Effect on Students in Poverty." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/eps_diss/104.

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The achievement gap between middle class white students and black or Hispanic students living in low income households continues to be a persistent problem in education even ten years since the authorization of No Child Left Behind in 2001. This study examined the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme and how students from low income households preformed on the Criterion Referenced Competencies Test (CRCT) mathematics and reading subtests when compared to similar students at a school with a traditional instruction program. Analysis of covariance was employed using scores from students’ fifth grade composite Cognitive Abilities Tests as the covariate. The analysis did not detect a significant difference (p=.410) on the eighth grade adjusted means reading CRCT scores, but did detect a significant difference (p

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Bell, Andrew. "Inquiry-Based Methods in the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program Art Room." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5378.

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The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program [IB PYP] is a student-driven, inquiry-based elementary school level educational program that has grown rapidly in the United States since its creation in 1997. This study explores how IB PYP art teachers define and implement inquiry-based instructional methods in their art rooms through a nation-wide, online survey of art teachers, coordinators, and administrators. The Survey consists of 22 questions which ask respondents to describe their classroom practices and provide examples of how they make use of inquiry-based methods in the art room. The responses to this survey were then value coded for four different phases of inquiry and three degrees of student-centeredness to analyze understandings of these practices. This study concludes that conceptions of these instructional methods vary greatly in occasionally contradictory ways. There is need for more robust lesson plans examples and increased frequency and access to subject specific training, in both physical and online settings.

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Hutchings, Gregory C. Jr. "Effective teaching practices and teacher efficacy beliefs of International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme teachers." W&M ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539618531.

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This study compared the teaching practices and efficacy beliefs of traditional middle school teachers and International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IBMYP) teachers in an urban school district using the framework of Stronge's Model of Effective Teaching (2007), Stronge and Tucker's (2003) Teacher Effectiveness Behavior Scale, and Tschannen-Moran & Hoy's (2001) Teacher's Sense of Efficacy Scale. Recommended practices for effective teaching were extracted from the following four categories of Stronge's (2007) Model of Teacher Effectiveness: classroom management and organization, implementing instruction, monitoring student progress, and construct of teacher's sense of efficacy.;A stratified random sample of teachers was selected from four middle schools in a large urban district. There were approximately 10 teachers selected from each school which gave a total of 40 teachers who participated in the study. There were 20 (n=20) IBMYP teachers and 20 (n=20) traditional middle school teachers who agreed to participate. A total of 18 IBMYP and 16 traditional teachers completed the online TSES questionnaire.;There was a significant difference (p<.05) in instructional differentiation, assessment for understanding, classroom management and encouragement of responsibility for International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme teachers compared to traditional middle school teachers. However, there was not a significant difference (p<.05) in efficacy for student engagement, efficacy for instructional practices, efficacy for classroom management, instructional focus on learning, instructional clarity, instructional complexity, expectations for student learning, use of technology, quality of verbal feedback to students, classroom organization, caring, fairness and respect, and enthusiasm for International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme teachers compared to traditional middle school teachers.

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Cochrane, Michael. "The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme : an inquiry into global citizenship in policy and curriculum documents." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19894/.

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The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IB MYP) is a curriculum framework for students aged 11 – 16 that ‘aims to develop active young learners who are internationally-minded’. It is popular in international schools around the world and is currently used in 1,356 schools in 108 countries, more than half of which describe themselves as international schools. The ‘global’ is ever present in MYP policy and curriculum documents, and discourses around global citizenship feature strongly, yet only one IB publication directly addresses global citizenship education. This study explores global citizenship education in MYP policy and curriculum documents. It provides critical reflection on concepts of global citizenship evident in the programme’s main framework policy document for the MYP, an IB position paper on global citizenship, and two case study unit plans. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is used to examine language structures around global citizenship, investigating configurations of global citizenship constituted within Western, neoliberal-oriented concepts associated with globalisation. Four key findings emerged from the analysis: first, that ‘international education’ may be understood as a platitude for private education; second, the programme has evolved into a curriculum framework that can be used in any kind of school setting globally in which the school can afford to pay the IB’s fees. Third, the programme blends the language of progressive education with the language of neoliberal globalisation in its promotion of global citizenship education. Finally, the study concludes that the IB, by subtly fusing the language of Western oriented neoliberalism with that of global citizenship, orientates its focus towards growth in numbers of schools using the programme, attracting ever greater numbers of customers and expanding its influence.

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Moore, John Murphy. "TEACHER MOTIVATION MATTERS: AN HLM APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING MOTIVATION TOWARDS THE INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAMME." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1501155644984555.

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Culpepper, Marlene Cabrera. "Teaching Culture in Foreign Language Classrooms of International Baccalaureate." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2117.

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There is an increasing number of International Baccalaureate programs in the United States that require instruction in an additional language to prepare culturally responsive global citizens, but there is little research on how the teaching of culture is addressed in elementary additional language programs. This study was guided by Vygotsky's and Dewey's social constructivism and investigated how the teaching of culture is integrated in additional foreign language classrooms in the State of Georgia's International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programs (IB PYP). It also investigated how personal, professional, or organizational factors such as values, beliefs, teacher training, or time constraints impact the integration of culture and language. This qualitative multiple-case comparative study examined the experiences of 3 teachers in Georgia who taught in K-5 additional language classrooms, using curriculum maps, student work samples, lesson plans, and semi-structured interviews as the data sources. Data were analyzed using Atlas.ti software and coded using constant comparative methods; the inductive qualitative content analysis included open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. The study findings showed that a variety of factors impacted program goals including the attitudes of school community, teacher isolation, philosophy, Georgia Standards, and practices of the IB PYP. Findings are applicable to additional language teachers for further discussion on the current state of elementary language programs in Georgia's IB PYP and for informing choices on program design. This study contributes to social change by expanding the body of professional literature in the field of foreign language education and on the issues that affect teachers in additional language classrooms in the IB PYP.

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Stobie, T. D. "A consideration of the extent to which Middle Years Programme and Diploma Programme of the International Baccalaureate Organization provide a coherent and consistent educational continuum." Thesis, University of Bath, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.425435.

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Christoff, Andrea J. "LOCATING TEACHERS PERCEPTIONS AND PRACTICE OF GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: A CASE STUDY OF THREE TEACHERS IN THE INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAMME." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1595237572025469.

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Mcleod, Mok Ham-wing Wendy, and 莫涵穎. "Teacher learning in a context of comprehensive school change: a case study of an international school inHong Kong during implementation of the international baccalaureateprimary years programme." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4357208X.

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Wolch, Philip. "An examination of the effect of risk-taking as defined by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) Primary Years Program (PYP) on students' active participation in their own academic learning /." San Rafael, Calif. : Dominican University of California, 2002. http://www.ibo.org/.

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Cheung, Kai-fai, and 張佳暉. "The relationship between morphological awareness and lexical ability of International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme students in Hong Kong = Xianggang guo ji wen ping ke cheng zhong xue xiang mu xue sheng de yu su yi shi yu ci hui neng li guan xi yan jiu." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/209677.

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近年來，香港有不少國際學校和直資學校開辦國際文憑課程（IB，International Baccalaureate），很多非華語學生選擇學習中文作為第二語言。然而，當中很多學生在使用詞彙上產生偏誤，而在二零零八年，香港教育局發布了《中國語文課程補充指引（非華語學生）》諮詢文件中，指出漢字的字形、聲調、語彙都是中文第二語言學習者的難點（香港課程發展議會，2008），這些難點均涉及語素。以往曾有不少研究，探討語素意識與詞彙知識習得的關係，因此，研究者期望以中文第二語言學習者作為研究對象，探討漢語語素意識與詞彙能力的關係。本研究為量性研究，以語素意識與詞彙能力測驗和單元評估試卷來蒐集數據，並採用相關度測量研究方法分析數據，從而探討國際文憑課程中學項目學生在詞彙上的偏誤類型以及漢語語素意識與詞彙能力的關係，並提出建議以提升中文第二語言學習者的詞彙能力。本研究目的有三：（一）探究香港國際文憑課程中學項目學生在詞彙上的偏誤類型；（二）探究香港國際文憑課程中學項目學生的漢語語素意識與詞彙能力的關係；（三）歸納研究結果，並就教學和後續研究上提出具體建議，作為對外漢語教學之參考。研究結果顯示，中文第二語言學習者的詞彙偏誤類型以「語音」為主，發展同音語素意識對於減少詞彙偏誤相當重要，此外亦需要加強發展部件規則的意識以及組字規則的概念，幫助他們掌握字形，對於減少詞彙偏誤亦有相當重要的作用。在漢語語素意識與詞彙能力的關係方面，中文第二語言學習者的語素意識對於詞彙能力有預測作用，同音語素意識對詞彙能力的預測作用大於同形語素意識的作用；而心理詞彙的語素意識、心理詞彙的數量及用詞能力三者有互相影響的關係，但仍需要進一步的研究。 International Baccalaureate (IB) Curriculum is adopted by more and more international schools and direct-subsidy schools in Hong Kong. At the same time, more and more non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students choose to study Chinese Language as a second language in IB curriculum. However, the vocabulary learning is one of the difficulties when they learn Chinese. The Education Bureau has published ‘Consultation Paper on Developing a “Supplementary Guide to the Chinese Language Curriculum for Non-Chinese Speaking Students” ’ and points out those NCS students encounter difficulties in learning Chinese graphemes, tones, vocabulary, etc. These difficulties are related to morpheme. Many researchers have conducted to study on relationship between morphological awareness and lexical knowledge. This dissertation aims to study on the relationship between morphological awareness and lexical ability of IB Middle Year Programme (MYP) students in Hong Kong. This is a quantitative research. Data collection includes two tests of the morphological awareness and lexical ability paper-pencil tests and one summative unit test of Chinese Language subject in a school. IB MYP students of two classes participated in this study and their morphological awareness and lexical ability were tested and analyzed by the statistical analysis software. The objectives of the study are: (1) Analysis on the types of lexicon errors of IB MYP students in Hong Kong; (2) Analysis on the relationship between morphological awareness and lexical ability of IB MYP students in Hong Kong; (3) Suggestions on developing of morphological awareness in learning Chinese Language as a second language. The results find that most of the lexicon errors were related to the tones and radical components of Chinese character, it is suggested to develop the homophone awareness and the orthographic awareness of Chinese character to reduce the lexicon errors. The morphological awareness of students has influence on student’s lexical ability. The homophone awareness has a closer relationship with lexical ability. The morphological awareness of the mental lexicon has an influence on the amount of mental lexicon and the ability of using lexicon. It is suggested to develop the morphological awareness of students in teaching Chinese as a second language to further study the relationship between the development of morphological awareness and mental lexicon in the future.
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Rose, Miranda. "Creating a learning community through a PE teacher's exploration of inquiry: A collaborative autoethnographic study." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1034.

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This study was an autoethnography about inquiry learning and teaching through extraction and construction of meaning from experience. Using a collaborative autoethnography methodology I explored experiences in my past with others in the field through a “critical friend” Blog, to unpack what may have enabled me to value inquiry-based teaching as a physical education teacher. I created narratives from my autoethographic data and again shared them with my Blog members, inviting critical responses. Over an eight month period I created a community of learners with purposefully selected colleagues working in an International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme curriculum school in the Middle East. I shared my narratives with my colleagues in order to support, question, connect or contrast my personal findings. Through our dialogues we came together to unpack our understandings of learning, who we were as learners, teaching, who we were as teachers and inquiry. As a community of learners exploring our experiences and perceptions, our understanding of constructivism evolved. This study revealed the tensions that exist between what teachers know about learning for meaningful understanding and the disabling learning and teaching environments they are and have been a part of.

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"The impact of an International Baccalaureate primary years curriculum on intermediate grade girls' and boys' perceptions of their learned global citizenship attributes." UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA, 2009. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3329814.

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