New AAIBS Chair and Standing Committee elected
May 27, 2008A new Standing Committee and Chair was elected following the Annual General Meeting held at the 19th Annual AAIBS Conference at Monte Sant Angelo Conference in April 2008.
The new Chair is Chris Rebbeck, MYP Co-ordinator at Blackwood High School, Adelaide.Â
Briony Morath (DP) from MLC School, Sydney, continues as Secretary of the Association, with Chris Taylor (DP) of St Peter’s College, Adelaide taking over as Treasurer from Jeff Burn who has retired from Standing Committee. Antony Mayrhofer (DP) of St Paul’s Grammar School, Sydney, moves into the role of immediate past Chair.
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The other Standing Committee members are: Neil Andary (PYP) of Prince Alfred College, Adelaide Geoff Connor (DP), Tintern Schools, Melbourne, Christine Buist (DP), Diocesan Girls School, Auckland, NZ, Amy Lee (DP), International School Suva, Fiji, Julie Warwick (DP), Queensland Academy for Creative Industries, Brisbane, Greg Graham (PYP), Linden Park Public School, Adelaide, Mathew White (DP), Geelong Grammar School, Geelong, Kathy Saville (PYP) Glen Waverley Campus, Wesley College, Melbourne.
Further information can be found about members of standing committee below.
New Chair, Chris Rebbeck, has been teaching for over 30 years and involved with the MYP since its introduction into Australia in 1997. He is currently the IBMYP Co-ordinator at Blackwood High School, which is part of the Mitcham Hills Cluster in South Australia. This cluster is the largest in the world, as it comprises a high school and 6 partner primary schools. In his role at Blackwood High Chris teaches Science and Mathematics and is part of the team responsible for the implementation of the MYP across the cluster. Chris has coordinated the authorisation and evaluation processes of the IBMYP at two schools, the most recent evaluation was in 2008. He has previously held the position of IBMYP Co-ordinator at two other schools, Stradbroke Primary and Norwood-Morialta High School. Chris is an accredited IB Mathematics work shop leader and has presented at numerous IBMYP workshops throughout the Asia Pacific as well as at state, national and international conferences. He has presented whole school IBMYP preauthorisation training and has been part of evaluation and authorisation teams nationally and internationally. Chris is currently a member of the Personal Project curriculum review committee meeting in Cardiff. In South Australia Chris is a member of SASSIPA, (South Australia State Schools International Baccalaureate Principals’ Association) and the secretary of the SAMYP Coordinator group. The SAMYP group meets regularly to plan and provide sharing good practice and job-a-like sessions and builds support networks for teachers and schools.
Amy Lee is currently the Diploma Programme Coordinator at the International School Suva – a role she started in 2008. Prior to that and continuing now, her involvement has been with her subject of Chemistry and Science as a whole as well as with Community Service Programmes. She is the CAS (DP) and Community and Service (MYP) Coordinator as well as the Head of Science. She has coordinated the curriculum sections of the IB MYP and WASC accreditation visits. As one of the two IB schools in Fiji, she works with the science department at International School Nadi but would like to forge closer links with the rest of the Australisia / Pacific Region. Prior to working in Fiji, Amy coordinated Chemistry at DP level in the British School of Costa Rica. Going further back she reveals her British roots teaching in both the Channel Islands and Scotland in national systems and community service programmes.
Mathew White is the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme Coordinator, Assistant Head of Manifold House at Geelong Grammar School and a Fellow in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education in Australia. Mathew commenced teaching English A1, French and Theory of Knowledge as part of the IB Diploma at GGS in 1998. In 2004 Mathew was admitted to the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Adelaide Mathew was invited to complete a Residential Institute at The Principals’ Centre of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2007. Mathew is an accredited IB Workshop Leader a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a Member of the Australian College of Educators.
1973, and has been a Member of the Australian College of Educators for about 20
years. In the years before the Diploma program his responsibilities
have included Acting Deputy Head, Head of Department, Head of House and
responsibility for various student interest activities. He was also involved in syllabus
writing and public examination marking. As Director of Studies he introduced the Diploma programme
at the school in 1998. His current
role is Head of SACE and IB, and he has also run Athletics for his whole time
at the school, recently assumed responsibility for Chess and still enjoys
teaching Economics. After Authorization Training in 2006 he has been involved in
two visits, and enjoys offering support to schools new to the Diploma Programme
whenever asked.
Immediate past chair, Antony Mayrhofer, is the Director of International Baccalaureate (P-12), Diploma Programme Co-ordinator and Head of Theory of Knowledge at St Paul’s Grammar School, Sydney (a three programme school). Antony has just finished a five-year term as Deputy Chief Examiner of Biology in the Diploma Programme for the IBO and as such was, and continues to be, involved in curriculum design and assessment for the IBO. He has led teacher-training workshops for the IBO throughout the Asia-Pacific Region since 2000. He is a visiting lecturer in Education for the University of Sydney in international education and has has articles published on aspects of the International Baccalaureate Organization’s educational programmes.