As an International School, GSO highly values English: all subjects, with the exception of foreign languages and the corresponding literatures, are taught in English. However, this may result, from the point of view of Italians, in a lacking of their mother tongue teaching. Conversely, at GSO, we give deep importance to the Italian language and […]
Kim Philot – IB Coordinator and English A Teacher My favorite book (of many) is: The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand. I choose this book because, to me, it is one of the best ever written. It follows the story of a man named Harold Roark and his journey through life and success. He is an architect […]
I have lost count of how many times I have been asked why the IB is so great and why I still choose to be an educator that believes in it. One of the main reasons I feel we must all support the IB is that technology, and the fact that the world is a […]
There are classes that enter your heart: you can’t forget them, even as time passes by, you wish you could stop it to enjoy the pleasure of their company once more. During my 17 years of teaching, only once happened that I had the same class for the whole 5 years of high school: a […]
On March, 21st – 25th, 2018, as an opportunity proposed by the students, we attended the Model United Nations Milan 2018 as delegates. We would like to take this chance to express sincere gratitude towards our English teacher and IB Coordinator, Kim Philot, for supervising and preparing us for the conference. MUN is a debate […]