NEWSLETTER JVL IB Volume 1, Issue 1
January 2013
IMPORTANT REMINDERS PAGE 4
MUNA Model United Nations Alfrink 2013 Model United Nations Alfrink is a simulation of a United Nations Conference. Participating students represent a country in a United Nations Committee and investigate, consult and debate on global issues. Alfrink College has been organising MUNA for seven years now. MUN is an event that is organised worldwide. In the Netherlands, for example, international MUNS also take place in The Hague and Leiden. MUNA started in 2006 as a small MUN conference for Alfrink students only. JVL has been a participant since 2007 when Alfrink College went one step further and invited students from a few other schools, including schools from abroad. These successions led to the seventh MUN in 2012,
with more than three hundred students, many of whom from abroad, who participated in MUNA. I have witnessed, enthusiastic participants from Germany, France, Spain, India, China and the United Kingdom. Still, MUNA has remained a relatively small international conference and therefore gives students who are yet not familiar with debating global issues the chance to participate as well. This year as in the past JVL is sponsoring 10 delegates including those from 5 HAVO and 5 and^6 VWO. We will be representing France in all the committees as well as San Moreno in the Council on Economics 2.
The MUNA theme of MUNA 2013 is ‘Freedom from Fear’. ‘Use your freedom to promote ours’ Aung San Suu Kyi. Continued on Page 3.
MUNA theme 2013
Language Media and the Global Classroom Project A look at the possible influence of mass media on language, language learning and culture. Including its impact on today's youth especially those young people with complex language and culture profiles. Has the internet become a global class-
room and if so what are the consequences, both positive and negative. Students and teachers will engage in activities and collaborative projects in search of the truth… After the successful completion of our 2010—2012 project
In dit nummer:
Travelling Through Cultures Winner of both the European Quality Label and the British Councils Photo Journal Project Prize. We are busy again with our 4th and 5th Classes. Please watch for further info.
Interesting Information
Internationalization in Higher Education
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MUNA Alfrink February 6-8
Guest Lecturers
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Guest Lecturer
IB and Me
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Allison Whitehurst February 22nd
MUNA Delegates
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MUNA Freedom from Fear
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Creative Writing Challenge - Rights and Responsibilities page 4
Important Reminders
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Rights and Responsibilities
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Internationalization in Higher Education Who, what, when, where, why and how?
European and International Orientation
In 2004, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) wrote a policy briefing paper called Internationalization in Higher Education. It said: "Higher education has become increasingly international in the past decade as more and more students choose to study abroad, enrol in foreign educational programmes and institutions
in their home country, or simply use the internet to take courses at colleges or universities in other countries."
4.6%. Eleven countries hosted 71% of the world's mobile students, led by the US with 21.3%.
If that is too vague, here are some 2009 statistics from UNESCO: more than 2.8 million students were enrolled in higher education institutions outside their countries of citizenship in 2007. This represented 123,400 more students than in 2006, an increase of
And from HESA in 2010: in 2008/09, there were 388,000 students studying for a UK qualification outside UK. Of this, 83% were non-EU students. All that this means is that we better get going or we will miss the proverbial boat.
Guest Lecturers The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
Each year we try to invite different people, from different walks of life, to present their own views on different subjects and topics.
In the past these have included speakers from the International Court in the Hague, an English immigrant practicing dentistry in the Nether-
lands and even former students who have studied abroad. This year our first speaker is Allison
Whitehurst. Allison is currently the curriculum manager for the Language A courses for the International Baccalaureate Organization. She has had many years of international teaching experience including teaching in Finland. She will be joining us on Friday February 22nd 2013
IB and Me from the Times Higher Education Bar 'set higher' for IB students
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
Universities are failing to "value or even understand" the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IB) and prospective students taking the qualification are being unfairly treated as a result, two leading school heads have said.
Anthony Seldon, master of independent school Wellington College, and John Oakes, head teacher of Dartford Grammar School, a state school, said they were "constantly surprised" at the "unreasonably high" offers being made to students taking the alternative to A levels.
Writing in this week's Times Higher Education, they say there is a failure among university staff to appreciate how "intrinsically challenging" the IB courses are compared with A levels. The IB diploma, the students of which take a broader range of subjects than is standard
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IB and Me continued practice at A level, has been held up by some politicians and experts over the past 10 years as a better model for post-16 education. Dr Seldon and Mr Oakes say that recent research by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, carried out on behalf of the International Baccalaureate Organisation, shows "compelling evidence"
that those taking the IB are more likely to go on to achieve firstclass honours degrees at university. "Universities in the UK should be trumpeting the IB diploma," they write. "Our experience, however, is that not all of them value or even understand it. University staff all too rarely visit schools beyond 'introduction to
higher education' events and talks. Thus, they do not appreciate quite how hard the IB students work over two years; nor do they really grasp how much more intrinsically challenging the courses are than A levels."
http:// www.timeshighereducati on.co.uk/story.asp? storycode=416113
For the full article go to:
MUNA Delegates 2013 After a long process of solicitation, interviews and deliberation the following delegates have been chosen to represent Penta College CSG Jacob van Liesveldt in Zoetermere for the 7th annual MUNA.
Congratulations Maartje van den Hurk
Kirsten Dubbeldam
―From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.‖
Femke Kok
Kofi Annan
Lis van Gastel Philip Bierkens Sven van Betuw Naftali Feddes Romy Bakker Samuel Abu
Daniël Veerman
‘Freedom from Fear’. continued ‗Freedom from Fear‘ is the title of a famous speech written by Aung San Suu Kyi in 1990 . A speech in which Aung San Suu Kyi states that ‗it is not power that corrupts but fear‘. In her speech she refers to Gandhi and her father Aung San to show a path away from fear towards a courageous fearless state of mind that fights
for human dignity. The feeling of hope surrounding Suu Kyi‘s release in 2011 and her election to parliament in 2012 does not only reflect the hope for change in Burma but for many other parts in the world as well. ‗Freedom from Fear ‘ might also well be the name of a recipe to fight the pessimistic state of
mind that haunts the world at the moment. ‗The only thing we have to fear is fear itself‘ were the famous words of president Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fight the economic crisis in the 1930‘s. The MUNA staff of 2013 feels it will be worthwhile to discuss what this recipe for world economic recovery might be.
Most of all ‗Freedom from Fear‘ is a call to each and everyone to fight for human dignity. At MUNA 2013 we will discuss what we can do – and what the United Nations could do – to empower people to solve the problems they are facing in their everyday life and struggle for survival.
Where The World Goes to School
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
Required Sites www.jl.penta.nl www.digitalanguage.org Moodle for 5 IB
There will be times when either you or your teacher is unavailable for class. Does this mean that everything ceases to be? Of course not. We live in the digital age and one of the requirements of the IB course is to work in an Electronic Learning Environment. (www.digitalanguage.org and/or Moodle) . This means that at times your lessons will be offered in a digital/virtual format. (i.e.. A flipped lesson where you will be presented something to view and some tasks to preform before, during and after viewing. The outcomes of which will be discussed in class during the first lesson after the absence. Hopefully by now you are becoming used to distance and blended learning so as to achieve full success in your IB course and in the future. This and other info can be found in the JVL Handbook for the IB course found on www.ditial anguae.org.
The Individual and Society Do you think following responsibilities leads to following human rights? Why or why not? Do you think you are respectful of others RIGHTS and RESPONSIBILITIES? Why? Or Why not?
What are your answers to the following Questions: What is the difference between a right and a responsibility? Do you think people can agree on what is a human right? What is a group right?
How important are your own rights? Why? How important are the rights of others? Why? Take the challenge and write a short story, article or letter to the editor containing your answers to the questions and your own opinion on how this is represented in your community, school and country.
Submissions must be at least 300 words and the deadline for submission is on or before the 28th of February 2013.
Send you submissions to k.schuck@Penta.nl