International Schools Blog

Parents and educators are becoming increasingly wary of screentime. Read how schools can integrate and balance digital learning with traditional methods.

King’s College School, Murcia, is a premium private British school and part of the Inspired Group of schools.

Most educators would agree that concept-based teaching and learning is vital to any meaningful education. The IB programme, for example, aligns with concept-based teaching and learning through its emphasis on critical thinking, intercultural understanding, transfer of knowledge and the learner profile.

Accessibility in schools is about making sure that every student gets quality education, no matter what their needs.

It’s been a tricky year for IB Diploma Programme biology, chemistry and physics teachers. We’re out of practice when adopting new Subject Guides; the latest editions were released nine (rather than seven) years after the previous. We have had to teach two different courses to our current two cohorts. And I sense from my conversations with teachers that more and more schools combine Higher and Standard Level classes, making planning all the more difficult.

In the last twelve months, there has been a lot of debate around AI and assessment. Lots of educators have expressed fears that student use of generative AI such as ChatGPT would make cheating widespread.

Science provides learners with ways to understand the world in which they will grow up. What takes place in a science lesson is intended to be a smaller-scale version of what takes place in the scientific community worldwide. 

Global citizenship isn’t a new term, but it has become increasingly important in education in recent years. The term refers to people who believe that their identity goes beyond the location where they were born or grew up, and is instead defined by their connection to humanity as a whole. Global citizenship therefore promotes diversity, mutual respect, and equal access to high quality resources.

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.