International Schools Blog

Sue Bastian, the architect of the original Theory of Knowledge curriculum, has devised a series of lesson plans to help you familiarise yourself and your students with the four elements of the new compulsory IB Knowledge Framework.

The winners of the International School Awards 2021 were announced on Monday 18 January 2021, in a live-streamed ceremony. Pearson is delighted to support these awards and offer our congratulations to all of the winning schools, who were selected from 264 nominations from international schools in 62 countries.

Alongside the many other events of 2020, we also released our new core English, Maths and Science courses for learners aged 11-14. Inspire English International, Maths Progress International and Exploring Science International are designed to support an age group we all too often overlook – and a school stage that some educationalists have called ‘the lost years’.

The biggest change since the Industrial Revolution is unfolding in the global industrial sector. To equip themselves for this new world, today’s learners are realising that in order to stay in the race for employment, they must grow, demonstrate and evolve their talents. Educationalists acknowledge that, to help them do this, education systems across the world must evolve rapidly to support them.

Setting New Year’s resolutions is a popular tradition. They allow us to reflect on the previous year, and optimistically move into the year ahead. Perhaps your students didn’t meet their goals for 2020. But this January, we all have an opportunity to start afresh.

The 11th annual BTEC Awards are your chance to recognise and celebrate the outstanding achievements of BTEC learners and educators around the world in an unprecedented year.

We hoped you enjoyed running your in-school Twist on a Tale competitions this year and if you didn’t get a chance, you can still organise your own writing challenge for the new year using the resources in this post.

If you’re wondering what we’re talking about, esports is simply short for ‘electronic sports’, a term coined to describe competitive video gaming. There’s a common misconception that esports is a ‘playful’ qualification, but this couldn’t be further from the truth, so we’ve teamed up with our partners at the British Esports Association to answer some of the most common myths people believe about esports and education.

Despite being a year of global upheaval, 2020 brought about a number of major developments in digital solutions in education, such as the widespread switch to online schooling, the rise in the use of apps and hybrid learning. It’s likely that teaching will continue to make use of digital technology for the foreseeable future. With this comes new challenges and developments.

Since its launch 10 years ago, Bug Club, our blended whole-school reading programme, has been capturing the imagination of almost 2 million children across the globe, helping them to develop a love of reading and with it, nurturing lifelong readers.