Learner Profile Attributes
This Learner Profile attribute describes a student who takes responsible action, makes thoughtful choices, and considers the impact of their decisions on themselves and others.
What is being Principled?
This specified concept focuses on what something is like—its characteristics, attributes, and essential features.
What is Form?
Students demonstrate this ATL when they can organize their time, stay focused, manage their emotions, and keep materials ready for learning.
What is Self-Management Skills?
Students engage in this strategy when they actively question a text and anticipate what may come next, supporting the IB principle of inquiry-based learning and encouraging learners to construct meaning as they read.
What is Predicting?
This math routine invites students to explain how they solved a problem, promoting conceptual understanding and aligning with IB’s call for “learning environments that value student voice and thinking.
What is Math Talk?
This ESOL strategy supports IB’s commitment to multilingualism by encouraging students to use their home language as a resource for building understanding in English.
What Translanguaging?
This element gives students a clear purpose for the lesson and supports IB’s emphasis on learner agency by helping students understand what they are expected to learn and why it matters.
What are Learning Targets?
I unlock the code where numbers play,
With wisdom from the Fighting Irish way.
Behind each problem, I quietly cheer,
Guiding minds to solutions clear.
Who am I?
Who is Ms. Courtney Benner?
Students who show curiosity, ask deep questions, and explore new ideas with enthusiasm are demonstrating this attribute.
What is an Inquirer?
This concept asks how something works and explores the purpose, role, or processes behind it.
What is Function?
This skill set is used when students listen actively, express ideas clearly, and use different methods to share information with others.
What are Communication Skills?
This strategy empowers students to analyze words independently by using picture cues, word parts, and context—promoting IB learner agency and helping students build conceptual understanding of language.
What are Context Clues?
When students use manipulatives like base-ten blocks to explore place value, they engage in inquiry-based learning and build transferable conceptual understanding, a key component of IB’s learning approach.
What are Concrete Representations?
When teachers provide visual supports—such as pictures, diagrams, and graphic organizers—they promote equitable access to learning, a key component of IB’s inclusion practices.
What is using Visual Scaffolds?
When teachers and students use learning targets to monitor progress throughout the lesson, they are engaging in this IB-aligned practice that promotes ongoing reflection and assessment for learning.
What is Check for Understanding?
I’m the whisper behind the quest,
Where minds explore and words invest.
I plant the seeds so stories grow,
And guide the paths you barely know.
Who am I?
Who is Ms. Liz Jacobs?
This attribute is shown when a student listens carefully, communicates clearly, and expresses ideas confidently in different ways.
What is a Communicator?
This concept helps students understand why things happen by examining factors that lead to actions, events, or outcomes.
What is Causation?
When learners gather information, evaluate sources, take effective notes, and draw conclusions based on evidence, they are using this ATL.
What are Research Skills?
Students use this strategy when they connect the text to their own experiences, other stories, and the world—supporting the IB emphasis on relevance, international-mindedness, and deeper conceptual understanding.
What is Making Connections?
This strategy asks students to notice details, ask questions, and form hypotheses about a real-world math image—directly supporting IB’s emphasis on curiosity and learner agency.
What is Notice and Wonder?
This routine strengthens oral language development by giving English learners structured opportunities to explain ideas to peers, aligning with IB’s emphasis on communication and collaborative learning.
What is Think Pair Share?
Posting and discussing a learning target at the beginning of the lesson aligns with IB’s commitment to learning environments that are transparent and student-centered, giving all learners equitable entry into the work.
What is Clarifying the Learning?
I weave a web of support unseen,
Catching learners in between.
With data’s map and caring hands,
I guide all through diverse lands.
Who am I?
Who is Ms. Marissa Molina?
When a student shows empathy, kindness, and respect for others—and acts with a commitment to service—they are demonstrating this attribute.
What is being Caring?
When students explore how things become different over time—whether gradually or suddenly—they are working with this specified concept.
What is Change?
Students show this ATL when they collaborate, take on group roles, support peers, and work toward a shared goal effectively.
What are Social Skills?
Readers use this strategy when they shorten a text to its most important ideas, focusing only on the key points instead of every detail.
What is Summarizing?
This structure gives students multiple correct solution paths and encourages them to select methods that work for them, reflecting IB’s focus on student choice and ownership of learning.
What are Open-Ended Math Tasks?
Teachers who pre-teach key vocabulary before an inquiry task help students activate background knowledge and engage more confidently, supporting the IB principle of learner agency.
What is Front Loading Vocabulary?
This process occurs when students use learning targets to evaluate their own understanding and set next steps, directly supporting IB’s focus on metacognition and self-directed learning.
What is Self-Assessment?
I speak in many tongues, yet one,
Helping voices find the sun.
Bridging worlds with words that blend,
I guide where cultures and learning mend.
Who am I?
Who is Ms. Nicole Cheroff?
This attribute is seen in students who approach uncertainty with courage, try new things, and stand up for what they believe in.
What is being a Risk-Taker/Courageous?
This concept guides learners to explore relationships among people, ideas, or things and how they are linked.
What is Connection?
This ATL is demonstrated when students analyze ideas, solve problems creatively, make connections, and reflect on their own thinking.
What are Thinking Skills?
Students apply this strategy when they summarize key elements of a story, demonstrating understanding and reflection—supporting IB’s focus on metacognition and monitoring one’s own learning.
What is Retelling?
By prompting students to look for patterns—such as in multiplication tables or geometric shapes—this strategy supports transdisciplinary thinking and the IB principle that learning builds deep conceptual understanding.
What is Pattern Seeking?
This strategy allows teachers to adjust language demands while maintaining high cognitive expectations, reflecting IB’s belief that learning should be both challenging and accessible to all students.
What is Differentiated Language Support?
By aligning activities and success criteria to a clear learning target, teachers demonstrate thoughtful planning that reflects IB expectations for coherent, concept-driven instruction.
What is Intentional Planning?
I weave a global learning thread,
Where curious minds are gently led.
Standards, action, inquiry blend,
Uniting our school from end to end.
Who am I?
Who is YOU!!!