Barbara Gondek-Blaszkow

Barbara has been teaching MYP Language Acquisition and DP English HL for twelve years now combining both national curriculum and MYP requirements.  In 2011 she took part as a workshop leader at the AMF–IB Romania – Poland project entitled ‘Teaching and learning from an international perspective’. The aim of the project was to support state schools in Poland in maximizing the effectiveness of teaching and learning of the Polish curriculum by getting to know learner-centered pedagogy.  Since then she has been leading workshops for IBO in language acquisition for all categories. Barbara has been holding various roles for IBO, which include being a dedicated workshop leader for both MYP Language acquisition and DP English B. She is highly experienced in MYP Language acquisition assessment. Facilitating learning has been her real passion now and her focus is on assisting both students and other teachers in their learning and teaching journeys.