Issues+to+discuss+with+PD

The following are the issues we said we need to discuss with PD - Do add if I have left anything out:


 * Clarify Field reps DO NOT need to arrive for registration.......they need to be there in time for faculty meeting
 * Fa culty meetings during 2012 will last 60 minutes


 * From info to be found on REGIS for field representatives:**
 * Compare Field rep role (developed by IBEN) with Regional Field Representative Guide (developed by PD)


 * Revise LCD/laptop agreement as in 2012 Field reps will need their laptops but not a beamer or screen
 * Hotel, travel and honorarium policy + Travel policy...........these two documents on REGIS make it sound as though we have two travel policies


 * Info Field REps will be getting from Conference coordinators - if possible in a package on arrival: **


 * Location of IB office in hotel
 * Conference Coordinator contact number
 * Any last minute changes to printed programme
 * WSLs - who leads which workshops
 * Update of info on workshop rooms - location of rooms, when can WSLs start setting up?
 * Updated participant lists and attendance forms
 * Internet access: who has access,passwords
 * Security issues: will rooms be locked during breaks?
 * AV staff contact information for WSLs


 * PPT for PLENARY, here are some comments:**

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 * It is very long with a lot of information
 * What is the content of slides 3, 6, and 16????
 * Close to impossible to share all the slides and the videos in 30 minutes, especially when there are 3 Field Reps
 * No slide on PYP development, there is very little PYP information
 * Videos do not always work – no PYP in the videos
 * More notes on the IBCC
 * One experienced Field rep said: “After presenting the ppt a few times now, I think the slide sequence should be looked at. The time line seems to be a bit out of sequence.”
 * Comments from a current FR:
 * ======// Slide #2 is ambiguous to me when it reads, “The IB is a community forged by passionate educators after the challenges of World War II.” To what challenges? Are they the challenges of the post war world? Are we looking to the issues of authoritarianism, isolationism, racism? The causes of the war? // ======
 * ======// “The IB prepares students to succeed in a rapidly changing world.” Why is the emphasis here on “success”? Many people will understand this, I think, as a statement that IB prepares students to succeed in business or their careers by enabling them to enter “good” universities. Is this the message we want to send? // ======
 * ======// Peru: Free Diploma Programme education for top-performing students.” Education officials in Peru may have adopted this policy – but how does this square with the emphasis in IB of encouraging greater access? Doesn’t this text reinforce the idea that IB is for an elitist student clientele? // ======
 * ======// The students pictured in slide 25, 26 and 27 are not really representative of the vast majority of IB students (at least in my limited North American experience). Would it be possible to add another testimonial from a more “ordinary” IB graduate? One who goes on to work as a sales representative or in a hospital lab testing blood samples etc. // ======


 * Other issues: **
 * WSLs must arrive in time for Faculty meetings and depart after workshop is over
 * What happens to WSL packs when a WSL has not turned up at the time of Faculty meeting?
 * Develop a protocol in case a WSL is late/falls ill/ has to leave because of an emergency - consider workshops with one leader and those with two.....how do the conference coordinator and field rep solve this?