Learner Profile Traits
You approach unfamiliar situations and uncertainty with courage and forethought, and have the independence of spirit to explore new roles, ideas and strategies. You are brave and articulate in defending your beliefs.
What is a Risk-taker?
Perfomances or tasks that are directly linked to the statement of inquiry that demonstrates student understanding of IB subject criteria. These can include essays, investigations, performances and presentations.
What is a summative assessment?
Focuses on 15+ hours of community service and gives students an opportunity to develop awareness of needs in various communities and address those needs through service learning.
What is the Community Project?
Language and Literature, Mathematics, Design, Arts, Individuals and Societies, Sciences, Language Acquisition, and Physical and Health Education.
What are the eight subject groups?
Should be done regularly by both students and teachers alike. Within the planner, a series of questions should be completed prior to teaching the unit, during teaching the unit, and after teaching the unit.
What is Reflection?
You understand and express ideas and information confidently and creatively in more than one language and in a variety of modes of communication. You are willing to work in collaboration with others.
What is a Communicator?
A mandated state test that utilizes computer-based tests and performance tasks to allow students to demonstrate their understanding of content in English Language Art, Mathematics, and Science.
What is the CAASPP?
There are four of them: Academic Honesty, Assessment, Inclusion, and Language
What are the IB Policies?
Inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, caring, risk-takers, balanced, and reflective.
What are the Learner Profile traits?
Teachers and students develop these to explore the statement of inquiry in greater detail. They give shape and scope to a unit of study and they help to scaffold the objectives that students should strive to achieve. They are labeled as factual, conceptual and debatable.
What are Inquiry Questions?
You act with integrity and honesty, with a strong sense of fairness, justice and respect for the dignity of the individual, groups and communities. You take responsibility for your own actions and the consequences that accompany them.
What is Principled?
A task that should be done before and during learning. They help to personalize learning and provide opportunities for students to refine or rehearse performances.
What is a formative assessment?
Helps students connect what they learn in school with their own community and the world around them. It extends beyond the classroom, allowing students to participate in a community where they live.
What is Service as Action?
Catagorized as Communication skills, Social skills, Self-management skills, Research skills and Thinking skills.
What are the Approaches to Learning Skills?
Powerful, abstract ideas that have many dimensions and definitions. They have important interconnections and overlapping concerns. They engage students in higher-order thinking, helping them to connect facts and topics with more complex conceptual understanding.
What are key concepts?
You have a natural curiosity and learn to acquire the skills necessary to conduct inquiry and research and show independence in learning. You actively enjoy learning and this love of learning will be sustained throughout their lives.
What is an Inquirer?
Information given by teachers to help guide students to deeper understanding of content. It focuses on student's strengths and weaknesses and is tied to formative assessments.
What is feedback?
The Primary Years Program, the Middle Years Program, the Diploma Program, and the Career-related Program.
What are the four programs that the International Baccalaureate offers?
A place where teachers can go to access unit planners, find subject guides, access MYP grading documents, etc.
What is ibo.org?
Expresses the relationship between concepts and context; it represents a transferable idea supported by factual content. They facilitate synergistic thinking, synthesizing factual and conceptual levels of mental processing and creating a greater impact on cognitive development than either level of thinking by itself.
What is the Statement of Inquiry?
You explore concepts, ideas and issues that have local and global significance. In so doing, you acquire in-depth knowledge and develop understanding across a broad and balanced range of disciplines.
What is Knowledgeable?
Four bands that contain eight qualitative value statements called level descriptors.
These must be assessed two times in each year of the Middle Years Program for each subject group.
What are achievement levels? OR
What are the criterion strands?
This is earned by participation for two years in a Middle Years Program and completion of the Community Project.
What is the Middle Years Program completion certificate?
Instructional verbs that define a range of learning objectives and assessment criteria in MYP subject groups. They indicate the level of thinking and type of performance that is required of students.
What are the Command Terms?
Inspire explorations of our common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet. They invite local, national and global communities, as well as the real-life issues and concerns of students in the Middle Years Program.
What are Global Contexts?