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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I firmly believe that both AP and IB can prepare a motivated student for college, if the teachers are good. Quality of the teacher trumps curriculum differences. A teacher like the PP, with a chip on her shoulder can do a lot of damage no matter which program they are teaching.[/quote]

So basically, I am a poor quality teacher "with a chip on my shoulder" because 
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What other reason to post on a local forum with a very narrow focus while living and working in Europe, than a chip on the shoulder?[/quote]

If you moved to Europe for your job, would you stop posting on this forum?  Should one cease posting on this site after leaving American soil?

The irony of your sentiment is that it is very, very anti-IB.  The IB program's main foundation office is in Switzerland.  The original framework/pedagogy for the IB program was created by a French woman, Marie-Thérèse Dupuy, who worked at the Geneva International School, and the IB grew into maturity as it was used at multiple other International Schools (well before it was adopted in the US).  The promotion of "international mindedness" is intrinsic to the IB curriculum; I placed "international mindedness in quotation marks because this term appears over and over in the IB documents/materials that state requirements of approach and material to IB teachers.  In fact, there are very specific requirements about texts for Parts 3 and 4 of the IB English program, meant to ensure that multiple geographic locations are represented in literature choices.  The IB teacher training sessions and materials that were originally used to show American teachers in the US how to teach IB, and to introduce the curriculum, were developed by teachers who had been teaching IB in International Schools.  Yet you feel that the views of an educator who has been teaching IB at one of the those schools in which IB was "born", one of those schools that used IB long before it arrived in the US, are not welcome or relevant in your discussion of the merits of IB?  You know, a person with your attitude toward the validity/desirability of writing/viewpoint based on the author's geographic location is VERY anti-IB, and you yourself would struggle mightily with several IB courses because of your outlook. [/quote]
+1000.[/quote]

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