[originaltext] The International Primary Curriculum is an idea that began in

The International Primary Curriculum is an idea that began in Britain eight years ago.(7)Today this curriculum is taught in more than one thousand primary schools in fifty-eight countries, including the United States.
    Educator Martin Skelton says for children to learn and succeed, they need a program that permits them to learn individually. "Our view is the teachers should be thinking about their kids in their class and why they are not learning and trying to work out what they are going to be doing tomorrow to help individual kids learn much better."(8)He says the idea with the curriculum is to help today’s children become good citizens of the world and twenty-first century leaders. Most world problems are going to be solved internationally now. I mean no single country is going to solve the environment or terrorism. It’s a multi-cooperational activity.
    He also says the curriculum has activities built around the development of "international mindedness" starting from the age of five.(9)"We encourage the kids to mingle with schools in other countries, and then of course things like Skype now make that fantastically easy to do."
    Another educator, Kate Foy of the British School in Washington, says(10)the teacher’s role is to enable students to discover for themselves."And you kind of have to sit back a little bit.(10)You have to make sure you’re asking the right questions. You maneuver yourself around the classroom and enable the children to learn as opposed to telling them. "