As I write this, I'm waiting for our students to return from their weXplore, a five-day excursion that takes students beyond their host city for immersive cultural experiences. For the past two months, we as a school have called Maun, Botswana, our home. It's a small town on the edge of the Okavango Delta and, for many travelers, a doorway into Africa. But Maun is only one perspective, and it...
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AS OUR 9TH AND 10TH grade students move through their studies and creep closer to the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP), THINK Global School is providing opportunities like this one to help prepare them for the task ahead. Matthew Albert visited TGS and PTIS on February 17th, 2012 to talk about his experience with the IBDP and how his CAS project directed his life goals from that point on.
Students walked away with a better understanding of how their education can pave the way for their future endeavors. And with advice like “how to eat an elephant,” Matthew also provided perspective on how to tackle the incredible work load of the IBDP.
The only way that you can eat an elephant is to break it down into very small bits, eat each small bit, and eventually you will have gone through the whole thing.