International Schools Blog

Here are five strategies that you can use with your International GCSE students to help you become a more effective teacher.

Learn how you can prepare your students for exam season, with revision tips and techniques to help them cope with exam stress.

Learn about the benefits of the British education system and see if it's the right choice for your child.

Following on from Catrin Brown’s blog post about the changes to the IB DP chemistry subject guide, Randy McGonegal, one of the authors of Pearson’s Biology for the IB Diploma Programme series talks about what the changes mean for biology.

In this blog post, Catrin Brown, one of the authors of Pearson’s Chemistry for the IB Diploma Programme series, and contributor to the IB’s curriculum review team, talks about the changes to the DP chemistry subject guide for first assessment in 2025.

The IB has published the new Business Management Subject Guide. This will impact teaching and learning starting this autumn, with first exams in May 2024.

Preparing students for progression to university requires more than just a strong grounding in academic understanding, students also need to be equipped with the right developmental skills such as the ability to learn independent, critical thinking, communication and creativity.

The National Curriculum for Computing in England might be nearly ten years old but the subject matter is constantly changing with new computing terms and programming languages, so it’s important that teachers are kept up-to-date with changes and what these might look like in the classroom. With specialist Computing teachers not found within most schools, especially at a primary level, teaching Computing can often be feared by teachers.

One of the major challenges for teachers and school leaders is how to meet the challenge of the Computing curriculum, especially at Primary and Lower Secondary and provide a rounded, thought provoking and engaging curriculum for students to help prepare them for the world ahead and inspire more to take computing-based courses at Key Stage 4 and beyond.

My previous blog post went slightly off topic in terms of the physical delivery of the BTEC and peaked beyond the boundaries of a specification in order to highlight the opportunities available to schools and colleges outside of the classroom. As it turned out, the responses and reaction to that took me pleasantly by surprise as it clearly helped educators to start to think about the bigger picture and the potential of the esports offer to any curriculum. But this article sees a return to the teaching and the beast that is Unit 2!