PYP
EDUCATION:
promoting voice, choice and ownership.
(Agency)
THE LEARNER:
Agency, self efficacy and advocacy. (ownership of learning)
THE LEARNING COMMUNITY
The Learner Profile with 7 learner attributes promotes the development of the whole child into:
Through the investigations of these attributes children develop into internationally-minded global citizens.
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LEARNING & TEACHING The main goal is to support dialogue in the learner that crosses subject boundaries.
• based on inquiry: A strong emphasis is placed on students finding their own information and constructing their own understandings
• focused on conceptual understanding: Concepts are explored in order to both deepen disciplinary understandings and to help students make connections and transfer learning to new contexts
• developed in local and global contexts: Teaching uses real-life contexts and examples, and students are encouraged to process new information by connecting it to their own experiences and to the world around them
• focused on effective teamwork and collaboration: This includes promoting teamwork and collaboration between students, but it also refers to the collaborative relationship between teachers and students
• designed to remove barriers to learning: Teaching is inclusive and values diversity. It affirms students’ identities and aims to create learning opportunities that enable every student to develop and pursue appropriate personal goals
• informed by assessment: Assessment plays a crucial role in supporting, as well as measuring, learning. This approach also recognizes the crucial role of providing students with effective feedback
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thinking skills—including areas such as critical thinking, creative thinking and ethical thinking
research skills—including skills such as comparing, contrasting, validating and prioritizing information
Approaches to teaching and learning (ATLs)
• communication skills—including skills such as written and oral communication, effective listening, and formulating arguments
• social skills—including areas such as forming and maintaining positive relationships, listening skills, and conflict resolution
• self-management skills—including both organizational skills, such as managing time and tasks, and affective skills, such as managing state of mind and motivation.
A community of learners has been introduced to specifically prioritize people and their relationships
Positive and trusting relationships will encourage and support well-being, self-efficacy and agency across an inclusive and collaborative learning community
Schools will implement, communicate and regularly review an inclusion policy designed to create a culture of support so that all students may reach their full potential
To create an internationally-minded person who recognises their shared guardianship of this planet