About the Author
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Dr Chris White has been involved in education for over 30 years.
He became an IB practitioner over 25 years ago, including working for the IB as a Professional Development Manager. On returning to the classroom, he became a Principal Examiner in Philosophy as well as an examiner in Theory of Knowledge and Extended Essay.
He is a very experienced workshop leader, leading workshops in Face to Face, asynchronous and virtual environments across TOK, Philosophy, the Extended Essay, Leading the Learning, and Concepts and Inquiry.
He has published textbooks with Oxford University Press and designed online courses that support critical thinking. He has written numerous resources for teacher professional learning in face-to-face and asynchronous workshops. As a curriculum writer, he has been involved in numerous curriculum reviews, developed online and blended courses for students, developed assessment strategies and structures to support the Diploma, and written extensively on developing critical thinking in young minds while developing fit-for-purpose resources for use in the classroom. He continues to teach the Diploma but is also part of a Teacher Development Programme in his local state system, where he works with teachers in schools with a high percentage of disengaged students from disadvantaged backgrounds. He also designs and teaches in the state's Gifted and Highly Able online programs.