The Mondrian Wall works in three timeframes - looking at what the curriculum has been, reflecting on what it is now and looking ahead to what we want it to be in the future. I realised that the term “curriculum planning” was insufficient to capture these paradigms and I decided to define the term dynamic curriculum (see below) to more accurately describe how the process the Mondrian Wall makes possible… Continue reading
This week we will be at the IB Regional Conference at the Hague, Holland.
Educationalists Richard Matthews and Phil Burdass from one of our pilot schools has been asked to lead a workshop on how the Mondrian Wall is revolutionising their curriculum planning.
Richard and Phil are renowned for their engaging talks and infectious enthusiasm for all things IB and curriculum mapping – so we’re really looking forward to their workshop!
If you’re at Den Haag let us know and we can meet up and talk about how the Mondrian Wall could fit in with your school – email info@mondrianwall.com
Details of the workshop:
WORKSHOPS, FRIDAY, SESSION FOUR @ 15:30 – 16:30
The Mondrian Wall
Richard Mathews
Director of IB Programme, Havelock Academy, Grimsby, UK
Phil Burdass
Director Of Teaching and Learning, Havelock Academy, Grimsby, UK
“The written curriculum is available to the whole school community”…in a dynamic, multidimensional interactive, online world in which students, teachers and parents fully engage with learning. That is how we interpret standard C2.2 of the IB Standards and Practice document!
In our presentation we will explain how our approach to vertical and horizontal planning finally makes the “pedagogical leadership” of IB coordinators a reality. Don’t miss this session in which we will finally unveil our much-anticipated curriculum mapping system “The Mondrian Wall” which makes this all possible.
Richard Matthews (left) and Phil Burdass (right) are well known in IB circles for their engaging presentations - so this should be a great workshop!
Full details of the conference can be found here:
http://www.ibo.org/ibaem/conferences/
More about Richard and Phil:
Richard Matthews
Director of IB Programmes and IBDP/CC Coordinator, Havelock Academy
Born and educated in England, Richard Matthews has recently returned to the UK after many years working in international schools in Europe, Africa and South America. Previous posts include Head of Secondary at Westwood
International School, Botswana, as well as being the founding Principal at
Colegio Euroamericano, Peru.
Phil Burdass
Director of Teaching & Learning and MYP Coordinator, Havelock Academy
Born and educated in the UK, Phil Burdass has a highly successful career in British state school education. Recently given the opportunity to work with the
IB programmes he has taken on board the philosophy of the IB with great
enthusiasm and has successfully guided teachers at Havelock Academy in taking
up the MYP, IBDP and IBCC.
We’ve put together a short preview video of a prototype of the Mondrian Wall showing some of it’s main features.
I’m really excited to be able to make this post to show people some of what we’ve been working on for so long! View post
We attended the RSA Opening Minds Conference today and it was an excellent and thought provoking event. It was great to meet so many enthusiastic teachers and see so much enthusiasm for the Mondrian Wall.
Interesting student feedback
You can’t beat getting real feedback from students and teachers – I find you always learn someting valuable.
We speak to a range of students from different years asking questions without telling them too much about what we are building so as to avoid influencing their answers.
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Today was an exciting day for the Mondrian Wall – we previewed the first prototype of the new system to two of our design consultants at Havelock Academy. Read full post
