APPLYING TO COLLEGE is a difficult process, and it’s often impossible to understand what goes on inside the minds of admissions officers. Story to College—an organization whose mission is to aid students’ writing of college essays through the creative process of storytelling—visited us last weekend to help our students find unique stories that will guide them through the college process and beyond.

TGS students already wrote personal memoirs in Thailand, so they were uniquely equipped to deepen their writing skills in this weekend-long workshop. In small groups and as a community, we shared important moments from our lives, recorded and transcribed them. We also used the writer’s process to edit these moments and turn them into evocative and realistic narratives that are sure to attract the attention of college admissions officers worldwide.

This week, students are completing the process through Skype conferencing with the dedicated Story to College staff. This will ensure that they take their essays through the final stages and give themselves a head-start in the application process.

As part of Creative Arts, I took the students to Art and Press at Martin Gropius Bau, an exhibition about several artists’ relationship to the media. The class is focused on new media and impermanent art works like performance, internet art, and digital-based works, so I thought it could be nice to see how artists were doing the opposite: taking throwaway newspapers and making them into permanent objects.

THE 25TH OF APRIL has been described by some as the birth of two nations: Australia and New Zealand. When the ANZACs were sent onto the beach at Gallipoli, no one foresaw the nationalism that would arise in the Antipodes. Those that had emigrated from Great Britain—whether forced or otherwise—saw that perhaps Britain wasn’t so [...]

One of our goals with the class was to focus on the ‘process’: to exercise taste and galvanize the students’ thoughts on art, pick components for a piece of collage, find an aesthetic and intention, and build on that. It was really interesting to see what images the students initially chose to work with and even more fascinating to see how they developed their ideas from there.

It was a long process with much anticipation on our end, but THINK Global School is proud to announce that it has been approved as an IB World school, and will begin offering IB level classes during the 2012-2013 school year. Receiving this authorization is a huge validation of our educational efforts, as all currently [...]