All authorised workshops use the same pool of trained workshop leaders and follow common patterns of organisation.
All our workshop leaders are highly experienced IB educators who are approved by the IB to deliver training.
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Angeline has been a primary school educator since 1999. She graduated from the University of Sydney with a Masters of Teaching (Primary Education) and a Bachelor of Arts (English literature). Recently Angeline graduated from the Principal’s Training Centre (PTC) for international school leadership. Her career started in a state school in Sydney, Australia, before working in the IB Asia Pacific region at an IB World school, Nanjing International School, China. Currently Angeline is the PYP coordinator at Berlin International School, Germany.
Angeline has taught every grade ranging from 5-12 year olds as a classroom teacher and music specialist. Since April 2007 she has been an IB PYP workshop leader and school visitor. She has facilitated a variety of workshops including Making the PYP Happen, Collaboration, Assessment, Teaching and Learning, Mathematics and the Written Curriculum in the PYP. Angeline is also a progress report reviewer for the IB PYP in this region. Angeline recently led the Exhibition workshop at the regional conference in Paris, June 2011.
Darren has over 10 years working within the PYP framework in both Asia-Pacific and Africa, Europe and Middle East regions. Most recently, Darren was the PYP Associate Regional Manager based in Geneva.
In March 2011, Darren launched this exciting and innovative workshop with the developer, Ann Van Damme in Berlin. Darren is pleased to offer this workshop once again in the region.
Originally from Canada, Darren's international experience has kept him overseas for the past 17 years, as a student and as an international educator.
Monika is an experienced classroom teacher with over 20 years of experience as a class teacher of students from ages 5 through 12. With a Master’s degree form the University of Nevada, Reno, she began her teaching career in Reno, Nevada, USA. She has been directly involved teaching in an international setting since 2000 and has taught in Dumbarton, Scotland; Amman, Jordan; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and is currently in Munich, Germany.
Monika’s PYP experience began in 2000 in Amman, Jordan as English Programme Coordinator for Amman Baccalaureate School (then a PYP candidate school). She moved to the International School of Tanganyika (IB World School) as HoD for ESL/Special Needs. At Munich International School (IB World School), she has been a grade 5 and ESL teacher in addition to being a member of the PYP Steering Committee and holding various curriculum and administrative positions. Monika has been involved with the IB as a Workshop Leader since 2009.
Ingrid has been actively involved in curriculum and workshop development in the field of international education for many years. Presently based in Vienna, Austria, she also has teaching experience from the UK, Canada, and Switzerland. During her teaching career at Vienna International School she held several posts of responsibility in addition to classroom teaching. These included appointment as PYP Coordinator, and also Head of Year responsibilities in the Primary section of the school. Most recently Ingrid was the teacher-librarian and Head of the Primary School Library.
Ingrid’s involvement with the IB is extensive. She participated in two curriculum committees for developing PYP Primary Science; was an IB OCC Faculty Member (Online Curriculum Centre) for seven years; developed and lead several IB in-cooperation with Vienna International School workshops on the ‘Role of the library in the PYP’; and has been regularly called upon by the IB as workshop leader and school visitor.
Newest projects include consultancy work for international school libraries based on IB Standards and Practices; working on developing an IB Global ‘Librarians and Inquiry Continuum’ workshop and, on a personal level, improving own Web 2.0 competencies and understanding their applications for information literacy education.
Angela Steinmann has over 27 years experience in education, teaching every grade from early childhood to Year 7. She was also a specialist teacher of ESL and Learning support, before taking on the position of PYP coordinator at Munich International School in 2004.
Originally from Australia, she holds a degree in Linguistics, and is currently finishing her masters of International Education through Bath University. Apart from languages, Angela has a particular interest in cross cultural studies. She has been an IBPYP workshop leader for 8 years, facilitating a variety of topics including Inquiry, International-mindedness, The Written Curriculum, Assessment, Action and Language in the PYP.
Keith has extensive experience as an educator and has held many positions of responsibility in national and international education. Originally from Canada, he was nominated for a Prime Minister’s award for teaching excellence and was actively involved in curriculum development, overseeing the rewriting of science education. His experience includes the development and delivery of teacher professional development, including secondments to the Ontario Science Centre. He has been a consultant to university out-reach programs and teacher-resource suppliers.
Keith is presently the Head of Science at the International School of Geneva, where he supervises science education in both the Middle Years and Diploma Programs of the Campus des Nations. He has taught the full spectrum of the MYP, and both physics and chemistry at the DP level.
As well as teaching, Keith is currently a workshop leader for the IB and a consultant to IB candidate schools wishing to be authorized to teach the MYP. He has also been involved in authorization team inspection visits to see that schools align their programme with the IB-MYP standards and practices.
Paul has been teaching internationally for ten years, including time in Bangladesh and Jordan. He has experience teaching both the IB MYP and IB DP and has been a Language A curriculum coordinator and CAS coordinator in the past. He is now IB MYP Coordinator at Pechersk School International in Ukraine where he oversees the implementation and development of the program.
Paul works with the IB regional team in a number of capacities. He leads workshops for new and experienced practitioners, provides in-school workshops, acts as a consultant to schools prior to authorization and is an authorization visit team leader.
Having taught in both paid and volunteer capacities in Japan, China, Guatemala, and Romania, Glen Johnson is the MYP Coordinator at Copenhagen International School where he teaches Mathematics and Design Technology and also runs a creative problem solving competition for teenagers. Glen has been an MYP workshop leader since for new, intermediate and experienced teachers since 2006, as well as conducting a number of school accreditation/ evaluation visits for the IBO. He also has a teaching background in Gifted and Talented Education and has a particular interest in learning styles, how the brain learns and curriculum development.
Leanne is the MYP Coordinator at ACS Hillingdon International School in London. Originally from Australia, Leanne has extensive experience teaching mathematics and sciences. She has taught all levels of MYP mathematics, and DP Physics. She has a particular interest in curriculum development.
Leanne has been an MYP workshop leader since 2009 and was one of the authors of the IB MYP Mathematics Taskbank.
Susanna is an IB Diploma graduate from the UWC of the Adriatic. She has been involved in CAS for many years. After graduating in political sciences and obtaining a Master's degree in mediation, she volunteered in Canada, East Africa, Sri Lanka, India, Slovenia and Italy.
Susanna was appointed as Service and Special Projects Coordinator at the UWC of the Adriatic and founded the college's Volunteer Work Association, Mondo 2000. She has been responsible for the training of high school teachers in Jordan and Israel as part of an educational EU project since 2007. Within the IB world, she has been involved in CAS monitoring and counselling and has led CAS workshops since 2002 - for the IB, Ibicus and IBSCA.
After a number of years working as a language teacher and administrator in Africa and Europe, Sue was IBDP Coordinator for eight years at Sevenoaks School, overseeing the transition to an exclusively IB sixth form. She taught French, Italian and ToK there, and subsequently at the Leigh CTC; she is a ToK examiner.
Sue is a member of the steering committee of IBSCA and has represented IB interests to UCAS besides leading sessions at IB conferences. She runs IB-authorised workshops for IBDP Coordinators and Administrators as well as for Italian Ab Initio teachers. She has advised a number of British schools on the introduction of the IB Diploma and leads Authorisation Visits. She is currently IBDP Coordinator with a faith school in west London, which started the programme in 2008.
Julian has taught IB Biology since 1988 and Theory of Knowledge since 1990. In the middle of his nine years at the International School Hamburg in Germany, he took leave to help set up the SOS Hermann Gmeiner International College in Ghana - a school mainly for African students funded by the charitable organization SOS Kinderdorf, and at that time the only IB diploma programme school in West Africa. He then returned to that coordination position in Ghana in 1999, since when he has remained, also as a member of the senior management team.
Julian was a member of the curriculum review group for ToK in the later 1990s that created the current overall structure of the programme, has been an examiner since 1996, was appointed Deputy Chief Assessor in 2005, and assumes the role of Chief Assessor in September 2010. Since 1995, he has led or co-led twenty workshops for the Africa, Europe and Middle East region.
After a teaching career in the People's Republic of China and the UK, Rémy is currently IB Coordinator at a candidate school in his native Switzerland. He has created ToK programmes and is a ToK examiner. When not involved in ToK, Rémy is also a teacher of IB languages (French, German and Mandarin). In addition to workshops for IBSCA, he has run workshops for IBAEM.
Rémy has participated in two Olympic Games (Athens, 2004 and Torino, 2006) as an interpreter in five different languages and is scheduled for London 2012. He is a keen fencer and is passionate about Chinese history - an area which he is currently studying whilst writing his PhD thesis. He is also a talented musician, playing the oboe in Swiss orchestras and bands and has also taught composition.
Bill Roberts has been involved with the Theory of Knowledge programme since 1993 and has taught and coordinated it in a variety of settings including schools in Cairo, Egypt and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He has worked as an Assessor for TOK since 1999, as a Senior Assessor since 2001 and was appointed as Deputy Chief Assessor in 2010. He is involved in the current curriculum review.
Bill has been active in training ToK teachers since 1999 and has presented at over twenty ToK workshops. He is also involved in considering how ToK can be promoted across the curriculum and has worked with schools on this.
His subject specialisms are in Mathematics, Gender Studies and Sociolinguistics. Alongside his work with ToK, Bill is engaged in the development of mathematics courses in an online environment and he works with schools looking at teaching pedagogy in mathematics. He also holds a visiting lecturer/researcher position at the University of Newcastle where he lectures on communication and culture and conducts research on gender construction within an international school setting.
For 12 years, Michael taught ToK and English A1 at Munich International School. Based on his teaching experience and his experience as an IB examiner in both ToK and English A1 he wrote Ways of Knowing (1999, revised 2006) - an introduction to ToK, and Commentary Writing (2005) - a text preparing students for English A1 Paper 1.
During the last decade, Michael has led ToK workshops across the region and also acted as a ToK consultant to individual schools. He has been a ToK and English A1 teacher for OSC since 2000. He is also a regular member of IB Authorisation teams.
Phil has been teaching internationally since 1993, which included 11 years in China. Phil has previously been the Head of English, Head of Languages and IB Coordinator at various international schools. He has been teaching the IB Diploma Programme since 1999 and is an experienced A1, A2 and TOK teacher. He has worked as an assistant examiner for the IBO and a Language A1 workshop leader. Phil holds a doctorate from Durham University and is currently working at the UWC Atlantic College in Wales.
Conrad Hughes is the Diploma Coordinator at the International School of Geneva's Campus des Nations. He is a workshop leader, examiner and senior moderator for the IB. Conrad has taught in India, France, Holland and Switzerland and sat on the Diploma Programme curriculum board in Cardiff from 2008 to 2011. Last year, Conrad published an article on postcolonial thought and international education in the Journal of Research in International Education (JRIE). Conrad is an IB graduate and holds a PhD in English literature.
Elizabeth has a degree in English Language and Literature from Oxford and worked initially in publishing and journalism. She taught for 6 years in universities in the US and Japan, and later in a Government College in Nigeria. She was Head of English and Drama for many years at St John's International School in Belgium, teaching IGCSE, AP and IB A1 and A2 courses, as well as directing many theatrical productions. Drama has always been a major interest; she has acted and made professional recordings.
Elizabeth wrote a handbook for teachers (Teaching Language A1), followed by an Oxford Study Courses Revision Guide for Language A1. She has been an IB workshop leader for 19 years, has examined all the A1 components and is a Senior Examiner for Internal Assessment. She currently teaches at Hockerill Anglo-European College where she has also helped develop the Extended Essay programme.
Carolyn has a degree in German from London University and in English from the Open University. She has been a Senior Teacher and IB Coordinator at The Godolphin and Latymer School in London for 7 years, spent 10 years as a teacher and IB Coordinator at the Inter Community School in Zurich and prior to this, taught for the Open University. Carolyn has been an examiner for English A1 and she has led both English A1 and Language A1 Generic workshops at all levels for the IB for many years. In addition to this, she leads IB authorisation visits for schools entering the programme.
Brent teaches IB and AP Literature as well as TOK at TASIS-American School in England, where he chairs the English and IB Literature Department. He has helped schools in Switzerland and Hong Kong develop their SSST (school-supported self taught) literature programmes and looks forward to doing more of this. He has taught OSC summer courses and enjoys their intensity and camaraderie. Outside the classroom, Brent maintains an active research agenda in early modern drama; he also acts in panto productions and helps maintain two gardens.
Marie-Laure Delvallée has been teaching French at Sevenoaks School in the UK since 2002 and is Head of Additional Languages. She teaches French B at both HL and SL along with French A2. She has been involved in examining IB French as an Assistant Examiner / Team Leader in all components at both HL and SL, and is Principal Examiner for French B. She is also a trained and experienced workshop leader for both New Teachers to the Programme and Experienced Teachers.
For many years she has worked on the OSC Mid-IB Course at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University and the Spring Revision Course at St. Anne's College, Oxford - working with students on French B and French ab initio. Marie-Laure is also the author of the OSC French B Revision Guide.
Holly read Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge before completing her PGCE in 1998. Since then she has led the Classics departments at Bolton School (Boys’ Division) and Oakham School, Rutland, where she began to teach Classical Languages (Latin and Greek) in the IB programme. She is currently the Head of Classics at The Manchester Grammar School. She is also writing a commentary on Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Aulis for the CUP. As well as leading workshops for Classical Languages, she manages the Classical Languages Forum on the OCC.
Estelle Hughes graduated with a masters from the University of Montpellier (south of France) after a rigorous course in 'classes préparatoires aux gradnes écoles' (specialised in classical and modern literature, philosophy and Latin). Estelle now works at the International School of Geneva as IBDP and MYP French A and B teacher and CAS coordinator. Her career in international education started at the Mahindra United World College in 2001. Estelle subsequently co-founded the Cameroonian UWC National Committee. As an examiner for French B and a CAS monitoring specialist, Estelle collaborates closely with the IB. She leads her workshops with passion and collegiality.
Pete has taught German at Sevenoaks School since 1989 and has therefore over twenty years of experience teaching German B HL and SL and also in recent years A2 German. He is Deputy Examiner responsible for German B and has assessed and moderated students' examination work for many years and also set papers. He was a member of the steering committee for the new Language B syllabus. Pete has led well over fifty German B workshops down the years all over Europe and North America and also in Singapore. He loves nothing more than talking to and sharing ideas and new developments with other German teachers.
After a teaching career in the People's Republic of China and Switzerland, Rémy was Head of Modern Foreign Languages at Wellington College, where he taught French, German, Mandarin and ToK within the IB. He is currently IBDP Coordinator at a candidate school in his native Switzerland. He has participated in two Olympic Games (Athens, 2004 and Torino, 2006) as an interpreter in five different languages! He is a keen fencer and is passionate about Chinese history - an area which he is currently studying whilst writing his PhD thesis. He is also a talented musician, playing the oboe in Swiss orchestras and bands and has also taught composition.
Eliana Maestri has been IB examiner for Italian Language Ab Initio and Language B since 2004. She is also examination setter for Italian B. She has led various generic Language ab initio workshops for teachers new to the IB and for experienced IB teachers. Eliana has taught Italian at the Universities of Bath and Bristol. She is currently Lector in Italian at the University of Oxford. She has designed and taught online modules for the MA in Translation, University of the West of England. She has also published a number of book chapters and journal articles, and presented internationally in the field of Translation and Gender Studies.
Rosa has been teaching Spanish at International College Spain in Madrid since 1990, gaining extensive experience of the IB Diploma Programme. She teaches Spanish B, A1 and A2. She was Deputy Chief Examiner for Spanish B for 6 years and is currently Principal Examiner with special responsibility for written tasks. Rosa is also a trained and experienced workshop leader for both New teachers to the Programme and Experienced teachers.Rosa is co-author of a Spanisg B book that will be published soon.
José is IB Coordinator in Swans International School, Marbella. He has been a Spanish examiner in different subjects and components for more than 10 years, including the Extended Essay. José is a workshop leader for both Spanish ab initio and Spanish B, having led workshops in Europe and the Middle East. His teaching experience covers IB, IGCSE and the Spanish national curriculum. He holds Masters degrees in different aspects of education from Spanish as a Second Language to Spanish Theatre.
José is IB Coordinator in Swans International School, Marbella. He has been a Spanish examiner in different subjects and components for more than 10 years, including the Extended Essay. José is a workshop leader for both Spanish ab initio and Spanish B, having led workshops in Europe and the Middle East. His teaching experience covers IB, IGCSE and the Spanish national curriculum. He holds Masters degrees in different aspects of education from Spanish as a Second Language to Spanish Theatre.
Ute is Head of the Language B Department at Copenhagen International School where she has taught IBDP German B HL and SL for 16 years. She is also responsible for the DP externally-tutored languages B and A2. She holds a Masters degree in German as a Foreign Language and Educational Science and has led IBDP German B teachers' workshops for the IBO, for InThinking and for many teachers at her school.
David studied English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. For 23 years he was Head of English B at St Clare's, Oxford, gaining extensive experience of the IB Diploma Programme. David has worked with the IB Organisation since 1990. He has led 50 workshops across the world. He was Deputy Chief Examiner for English B for 6 years and is currently Principal Examiner with special responsibility for Internal Assessment. David has also been on a number of IB Working Parties - including curriculum review.
David left St Clare's in 2002 to move to Catalonia with his wife. He now combines his expanding role in professional development and in consultancy with painting, increasing his knowledge of Spanish and generally enjoying life in Spain. A recent development is the creation of a highly authoritative website for English B.
Suso Rodriguez-Blanco has been teaching IBDP since 2002, when he joined St. Clare's, Oxford to take charge of Spanish A1, B and ab initio. He has also been Staff Development Coordinator and currently holds the position of Head of Modern Languages at the college.
Suso was closely involved in the last curriculum review. He is an examiner and team leader for Paper 1 and IA for Spanish B, in addition to being a member of the Standardization and Grade award team. Suso is co-author of the Spanish B Course Companion and Spanish B Skills and Practice for the new syllabus, both published by OUP.
Susanne is currently living in Brussels, Belgium and working as a teacher and teacher trainer. She has taught languages in Austrian, UK and International Schools. Moreover, she has done in-company training for Banks and Chemical Enterprises in the Brussels Area. She has been examiner and trainer for Cambridge ESOL and IELTS since 1998. She has been involved with the IB since 2002, as Examiner (responsible for German B, 2002 to 2004), and Workshop Leader for Ab Initio languages as well as Paper Setter and Standardiser. Since 2008 Susanne also lectures in English Linguistics at the Haute Ecole de Bruxelles.
John has taught IB Diploma Geography at both Higher and Standard Level for the last 16 years at the Inter Community School in Zurich and has been an assistant examiner for both the Extended Essay and Paper two for since 1998. In the past he has also been employed by the IB to set exam questions. In addition to this, he has been a CAS Coordinator and IB Diploma Coordinator and taught ToK. He has taught Geography in Australia, the UK and in Switzerland. Since 2005 he has been a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is a Chartered Geographer. He has organized seminars for IB Geography teachers within Switzerland.
John has been a workshop leader for the IB in both Geography and CAS. He has led workshops at categories 1, 2 and 3 in Europe, the Middle East and the US. From 2005 to 2007 he was involved in the curriculum review for CAS and has been currently engaged by the IB to co author a book on CAS projects.
Sarah Dayal has a Masters in Psychology with a Bachelors in Education. She has more than 25 years of teaching experience. As an IB Psychology teacher she has taught all components of the syllabus, supervised Extended Essays, internally moderated the IAs and prepared both HL and SL students for the Diploma Examinations. It is with pride in her students that she claims to have achieved above world average results throughout her teaching career. She contributed towards the development of Online Psychology SL as a subject matter expert in 2010.
Sarah has conducted IB Psychology workshops throughout the IBAEM region. As an IB Psychology Examiner since 2006, she marks Extended Essays and IB Psychology Paper 2 exam scripts. Since May 2010 she has been Team Leader for examiners of IB Psychology Paper 2 marking.
Sarah enjoys every aspect of Psychology and calls it a ‘cerebral love affair’ where she has still so much to learn! Along with the academic aspect of Psychology, she is involved with ‘Psychology in Action’, where she puts the principles of the study of behaviour into practical and professional aspects of life with a focus on Positive Psychology. She conducts training programs and personal effectiveness workshops for professionals. She freelances as a Counsellor on reference basis and has had a counseling program on an Asian television program called ‘Ask Sarah’.
John is currently Deputy Head and IB Coordinator at King Edward's School, Birmingham. He was IB Coordinator at Fettes College for four years and Head of History at Oakham School before that. He has been a workshop leader in History for the IB, Ibicus and IBSCA for four years and an IB examiner and team leader for six years.
Stephen has taught at Malvern College since 1990 and been Head of Economics, Politics and Business since 2001. He has taught IB Economics, at higher and standard level, in parallel with ‘A’ levels since 1992 and has examined at both standard and higher level. He is currently a senior examiner and team leader for HL paper 3. This involves being part of the team that generates the markschemes and which this year managed the process of emarking HL3 for the first time.
For many years Stephen taught on the OSC Easter revision courses and is the author of the OSC HL and SL revision guides (currently being revised for the 2011 syllabus).
Stephen is also an ISI School Inspector and a school governor.
Shannon is originally from Vancouver, Canada where she received her double major in History and Political Science from the University of British Colombia. She has been teaching IB History since 1991, initially in Canada and at the International School of Prague since 1998. She is a Paper 2/3/IA/Extended Essay examiner and DP History/ToK workshop leader for IBAEM, Ibicus and IBSCA. She was commissioned to write a companion History IB Europe text for the new IB History course, parts of whcih are used in her workbooks. Shannon has also written companion educational materials for the 1989 Czechoslovak Velvet Revolution documentary, "The Power of the Powerless".
Gareth taught IB Economics at Atlantic College in Wales for 26 years following ten years of university lecturing. He retired in 2009 after ten years as university guidance and IB Co-ordinator and seven as Vice Principal. He was IB Deputy Chief Examiner in Economics from 1997 to 2002 and has been Chief Examiner since September 2010. He has led Economics workshops for nearly twenty years, and also IB Co-ordination and University Guidance workshops for the last three years. When Development was introduced as a compulsory part of the Economics syllabus, with Charles Smith he wrote Development Economics, Macmillan, 1998. Recently he has been working on curriculum development, on the World Studies Extended Essay and the proposed new Global Politics course at Higher and Standard Level. He is also an IB Diploma Authorisation Team Leader.
Alistair has been IB Coordinator / Academic Director at the Red Cross Nordic UWC since 2001. His IB teaching stretches back to 1986 and covers Environmental Systems, Biology and ToK. He has been an examiner for Environmental Systems since 1989 and team leader for marking Paper 2 since 2000. He was part of the exam setting team for Environmental Systems and Societies in 2009 and leads IB workshops on Environmental Systems and Societies as well as IB Coordination.
Barbara has been involved with the IB Diploma Programme since 1982 and ITGS since 1989 when the proposal for ITGS was first drafted. She has been active in ITGS through teaching ITGS, ITGS curiculum development, OCC faculty mentoring, online training for examiners, being Principal Examiner (Extended Essays, Projects and Paper 2) and is currently Chief Examiner. She has conducted ITGS workshops since 1998 - both face-to-face and online. She also initiated the development of the online resource, ITGSopedia, to support students and teachers.
Barbara was Head of ICT at Vienna International School for over 25 years and continues to maintain a primary interest in professional development. In addition to ITGS, her main focus is the integration of ICT across all IB programmes and Web 2.0 in the IB Classroom. She co-authored the online workshop of the same name and is also the OCC faculty member for the topic. Additionally, she has been involved in the Continuum through the development of the IB Learner Profile wiki and is a member of the IB Virtual Community faculty mentors' group. Newest projects include integration of ICT technologies with mobile devices in the IB classroom which matches well with ITGS, Web 2.0 and travel.
Dave has taught IB for eight years, while working at UWCSEA in Singapore. In addition to Chemistry, he taught ToK and a school-based syllabus called Science and Technology in Society. He is an IA moderator and examiner for SL and HL Chemistry. He also moderates and marks UK exams for OCR and AQA.
Dave has run face-to-face workshops in Kuala Lumpur and Birmingham as well as nine online workshops, specifically aimed at developing teachers' assessment of lab work. Recently, Dave became an Associate Director from TripleALearning.com where he is involved in writing the Chemistry blog and developing new resources for teachers.
Chemistry aside, Dave values highly and is very passionate about CAS. He worked in Aceh after the 2004 tsunami, is involved in the Blair Forster Memorial Trust supporting East Timorese students and runs Community Service at his current school in the UK.
John is a Chartered Physicist who has been teaching Physics, Mathematics and ICT for over 25 years. He has a PhD from Imperial College, London in condensed matter physics and worked for GEC-Marconi for 8 years as a Research Physicist before moving into full-time teaching.
John has been an Associate Lecturer at the Open University since 1987, teaching Physics, Astronomy and Planetary Science. He is presently Head of Physics at Oakham School, Rutland and is an AS/A2 Examiner for OCR. For the IBO, he has examined, moderated IA and marked Extended Essays.
Rhevatee has been involved with the teaching of Biology for IGCSE and IBDP since 1993 at Le Bocage International School in Mauritius. She has also taught at the Mercedes Benz International School in Pune, India - including MYP Biology. She is an experienced teacher of ToK. She has been an IB examiner and Internal Assessment moderator since 1997 and a workshop leader since 2006.
Rhevatee is a member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius and has a strong interest in nature conservation. She is fully trilingual - English, French and Hindi.
Chris teaches IB Higher and Standard Level Biology at Malvern College, an independent boarding school in Worcestershire, UK where he is also Head of Science and Head of Biology. He has been teaching the IBDP for about 15 years.
Chris is also a senior examiner for Biology HL Paper 3 as well as marking HL Paper 2. He is a senior moderator for IA (the internally assessed coursework) and writes and edits feedback reports - including reports for schools that wish to have the assessment of coursework explained in detail (IMRs). He sets IB exam papers and attends mark scheme standardisation and grade award meetings in Cardiff.
Beyond the IB, Chris is also an ISI Schools Inspector and is one of those called upon to inspect schools that offer the IB Diploma Programme.
Joe has extensive experience of teaching around the world. He is a Senior IB Biology examiner having marked HL paper 2 but has been for a number of year a Team leader for SL paper 2. He has moderated Biology IA assessment since 2000, and is a senior moderator. He also sends detailed feedback to schools via the IMRs on their internal assessment.
As well as teaching, Joe has been involved in IB revision courses for OSC for many years and in leading IB teacher workshops since 2004 at all levels, including workshops to introduce the current subject guide in 2007.
Joe is also a Diploma Consultant, a role that requires him to guide school seeking authorization to offer the Diploma.
Currently, Joe is IBDP Coordinator, as well as teaching Biology at ISL Qatar.
Diana trained as an Industrial Designer and worked in industry for 13 years before coming into teaching. In industry, she designed consumer products for mass production and worked for the Design Council. Diana has taught the IB Diploma for 8 years and is Head of Design and Technology at King's College School, London, where she teaches the Design and Technology Diploma and supervises Extended Essays and Group 4 Projects. She is Deputy Chief Examiner for IB Diploma Design and Technology and both writes and marks Design and Technology examination papers.
Nick has worked with the IB Diploma as a Chemistry and ToK teacher since 1976 when it was introduced at the United World College of S E Asia in Singapore. He has been an examiner since 1983, mainly for Chemistry HL Paper 2, where he served a term as Principal Examiner, and for the Extended Essay. He has also set questions. In addition, he is an assessor for Theory of Knowledge. Nick was one if the team involved in the 1996 revision of the Chemistry Guide when the present structure of Core and Options was introduced. Over the years he has led many workshops for the IB - for Administrators, Coordinators and for Experienced and New Chemistry teachers.
Nick now works half-time for the IB and IBSCA as University Liaison Officer, and spends the other half as an independent educational consultant, which naturally includes running even more workshops!
Erin teaches IB Standard Level Sports, Exercise & Health Science at Malvern College, an independent boarding school in Worcestershire, UK where she is a teacher of Physical Education.
Erin has been IB SEHS course leader since its inception and has gained valuable experience through working with colleague Chris Hall who is a senior examiner & moderator for IB Biology and·also Head of Science at Malvern College.
Erin and Chris jointly delivered the first SEHS workshop in Africa, Europe & the Middle East.
Alistair has been IB Coordinator / Academic Director at the Red Cross Nordic UWC since 2001. His IB teaching stretches back to 1986 and covers Environmental Systems, Biology and ToK. He has been an examiner for Environmental Systems since 1989 and team leader for marking Paper 2 since 2000. He was part of the exam setting team for Environmental Systems and Societies in 2009 and leads IB workshops on Environmental Systems and Societies as well as IB Coordination.
Mark has over 25 years' experience of teaching Information and Communications Technology and Design Technology at schools around the world. He is currently Head of Department for DT & ICT at Cairo American College, Egypt. His interests are many, but particularly include technology integration across the curriculum - especially web 2.0 technologies.
Mark has been very closely involved in IB developments since 2000. He has been an examiner for DP Design Technology and a workshop leader for both Design Technology and Group 4. He has also been involved in many committees such as those relating to Group 4 curriculum review, students with learning difficulties, etc.
Györgyi Bruder's teaching career began in Budapest, Hungary at the Karinthy Frigyes Bilingual School where she taught Mathematics and Physics from 1990. She has been teaching IBDP Mathematics SL and HL since 1993. She also taught Mathematics at the University of ELTE for some years before moving to Switzerland.
Györgyi has been an examiner, team leader for IBDP Maths SL since 2000 and workshop leader for IB Mathematics HL since 2008. She has been working in Switzerland for five years which includes three years at the Swiss International School Basel as a teacher of Mathematics and IB Diploma programme coordinator.
For nine years, Jane was Deputy Head and IB Diploma Coordinator at Rotterdam International Secondary Schoo. Now she is Head of school. As well as teaching Mathematics at all three levels of the IBDP, Jane has also taught ToK. She was Deputy Chief Examiner for Mathematical Studies for 5 years, has been involved in the last two curriculum reviews and is a member of the IA curriculum review for the new syllabus. She is Principal Moderator for Projects and Team Leader for Paper 2 marking. She also marks Paper 1 scripts.
Jane has given many workshops in Europe, Africa, America and Latin America and is co-author of the Mathematical Studies Course Companion and the IB Prepared Mathematical Studies SL revision book.
Anton has taught all levels of IB Mathematics since 1990. Most of his teaching has been at the UWC of the Adriatic in Duino, but he also spent three years teaching at UWCSEA in Singapore. For the last 14 years he has also taught ToK.
He has been an examiner since 1998, initially moderating IA for Maths SL, but now concentrating on HL Paper 1. For the last three years he has also marked Extended Essays in Mathematics. Anton has led IB workshops for teachers of Mathematics HL in Europe, Africa and New Zealand.
Peter Hamer-Hodges has been teaching on the IB Diploma Programme since 1977. From 1979-1983, he taught all levels of DP maths at the United Nations International School in New York. From 1983-2010 he was Head of Mathematics and Dean of Administration at the Armand Hammer United World College in Montezuma, New Mexico. He has been a teacher trainer workshop leader since 1984.
Peter has been an examiner for the IB since 1985 and was a deputy chief examiner for Maths HL from 2001-2006. During the period 1993-2001, he also worked very closely with the Teachers Training with Technology group on the use of appropriate technology in teaching mathematics.
Josip Harcet has taught all four Mathematics subjects at various schools within Europe since 1992. He has been an IB assistant examiner for SL and HL since 1998. He has marked Paper 2 and Paper 3 and he has been an IA moderator. Josip held a position of a Deputy Chief Examiner for Further mathematics SL from 1999-2004. Since 2005 he has been a member of a Senior Examiner Team, a team leader for Paper 3 HL. Since 1998 Josip has been leading IB workshops in Mathematics SL, HL and Further mathematics SL within Europe, Africa, Middle East and North America. He has also led workshops for graphic display calculators and student revision courses.
Caroline taught HL, SL and Mathematical Studies at Oakham School from 2001 until 2008. She has acquired a particular interest in teaching Maths Studies and the wide range of students who opt for that syllabus. She is currently a member of the Curriculum Review team who are checking and revising this cycle. She also enjoyed being part of the Oakham "Thinking Matters" team teaching ToK alongside the different maths syllabi.
Caroline is currently writing a study guide for international students transferring into English language schools. The emphasis is on the language used in mathematics as well as the content. An IB assistant examiner since 1996, Caroline has marked both paper 1 and paper 2 for Mathematical Studies. She has led workshops and revision courses within the UK and Europe.
Esther has taught IBDP mathematics at three levels: HL, SL and Studies. She is an IB examiner and was DP coordinator until transferring to the position of Professional Development Coordinator at the Aga Khan Academy in Nairobi. She has led workshops on Mathematics SL and Implementing the DP.
Suzanne is a Maths teacher with twenty years teaching experience, having taught IB Mathematics at Standard Level, for the past 15 years. She has also been involved in teaching the MYP during her time spent as IBMYP Coordinator at the International School of Dusseldorf, Germany. She has been in the UK for the last six years after teaching internationally for 14 years (Verdala International School, Malta, Amman Baccalaureate School, Jordan and the International School of Dusseldorf). In the UK she taught at Felsted School, a boarding school offering IB Diploma alongside A levels. Suzanne has since returned to mainland Europe and has taken up a new teaching post this year at the International School Hannover Region Germany, where she is teaching Maths in the Diploma and MYP. Suzanne is married and has a 6 year old daughter.
Suzanne has been an IB examiner for the past 12 years, during which time she held the post of Deputy Chief Examiner for Mathematics SL. She is currently a senior examiner for IA and script marking in the role of team leader for IA and Paper 2 for this examination session. Suzanne also teaches IB revision courses for the OSC in Oxford each Easter, and has done so for the past 5 years.
Bill is an experienced educator of Mathematics and has taught the subject at high school level for over twenty years. Most of that experience has been with the IB Diploma Programme in Cairo and Dar es Salaam. He has extensive experience of teaching Mathematics HL, SL and Mathematical Studies. He has worked as an examiner for Mathematics HL since 1996 and as Deputy Chief Examiner since 2005.
Bill is also an experienced workshop leader and has been training teachers for both Mathematics HL and SL since 2000. He also works for the IB as a senior examiner for ToK and as a leader of Authorisation Visits. Bill currently lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and lectures at the University of Newcastle.
Palmira is an enthusiastic mathematics teacher with 24 years of experience. She has taught various levels of Mathematics in different educational systems. Palmira joined the IB community in 2001. Since then she has taught all IB MYP and IB diploma mathematics courses. Currently she teaches at Vienna International School.
Palmira is also an experienced workshop leader and examiner. She has been Deputy Chief Examiner for Mathematics HL for five years and a member of the recent curriculum review committee for this subject. She is co-author of the new Mathematics Higher Level Course Companion for the new syllabus.
Maria is an experienced educator and has taught mathematics at high school level for almost 25 years. After completing a master’s degree from Uppsala University, Sweden, she began her teaching career in 1986. She has taught mathematics within the Swedish national schools program, at international schools in the Stockholm area and at a national secondary school in Tanzania. For the past five years, Maria has enthusiastically taught IB Mathematical Studies at Åva Gymnasium, Sweden, bringing new meaning to the concept of “Little Boxes” and other inspiring ways of bringing maths to life in the classroom. To that end, she has also been piloting new technology in the teaching of mathematics.
Maria has been an IB examiner for Paper 1 for three years. She is also an experienced workshop leader for T3, Teacher’s Teaching with Technology, which she has been involved with for the past five years in Sweden. Last year, she also added leading workshops in IB Mathematical Studies to her range of mathematical knowledge pursuits.
Richard has been a teacher of Media, Film, English and Drama fir more than 30 years. He is Chief Examiner for the IB's Film programme and was fully involved in its development through the pilot stages. He is also an Associate Tutor of the bfi. Richard is a former Chief Examiner and Chair of Examiners for A Level and AVCE Media Studies; Principal Examiner and Moderator for A Level Media Studies and AVCE Media Communication and Production. He has written and edited several textbooks and study guides for GCSE and A Level Media and Film Studies.
Richard has also lectured on many aspects of Film and the Media, not only in the UK but also in North America and Australasia. He has led IB Film workshops in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Athens and the UK. Most recently he has also returned to acting appearances in UK television series Casualty, Down to Earth, Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Doc Martin.
Heather has taught IB Diploma Visual Arts for 13 years and was Head of Art at the International School of Florence. She has been a Visiting Art Examiner for IBO since 2005 and a Visual Arts Extended Essay Examiner and Internal Assessment Moderator. She has also contributed to the Visual Arts Subject Guide. Heather holds a Masters Degree in Fine Art from Central St Martins and degrees from Smith College, USA and the Academmia di Belle Arti di Firenze. She leads workshops for new and experienced Visual Arts teachers.
Heather currently lives in London, where she works part time for the IB and as a freelance artist educator and consultant. She is also a practicing visual artist and exhibits regularly in the UK and abroad.
Jonathan has experienced a wide-ranging musical and teaching life both in the UK and in Norway, Cairo and Vienna. He has led teacher-training workshops for the IB around the world in IBDP Music, Extended Essays and Enquiry Based Learning, and has also trained teachers from all subject disciplines as new workshop leaders for the IBDP in Sydney, Australia, Geneva, Switzerland, and the UK.
Jonathan is currently the Chief Examiner for Music for the IB Diploma Programme. Additionally he is an IBDP schools exams inspector, a member of the IB’s Schools Authorisation Visit team, a regional field representative (academic) for IB Africa, Europe and Middle East, and a session observer (generic) for DP, MYP and PYP workshops worldwide. He is also involved as a mentor and developer for online workshops for the IB.
Jonathan lives in Oxford, where he is Director of College Music and tutor at Brasenose College, Oxford University, and organ tutor at Magdalen College School. He is an honorary fellow of the Cambridge Society of Musicians, awarded for distinguished services to music and music education in the UK, and an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
