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Philosophy
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The Student
Miscellaneous
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The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. To this end the IB works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment. These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
What is the IB Mission Statement?
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That which explicitly supports the programme and has allocated sufficient funding for the effective implementation and ongoing development of the programme
What is the governing body (district)?
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The theory and application of effective assessment; "How will we know what we have learned?"
What the assessed curriculum?
100
Students learn to choose, to act, and to reflect on their actions, so that they contribute to their own well-being and that of the community and environment.
What is standard D1?
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A set of criteria against which both the authorized school and the IB can measure success in the implementation of the three programmes (PYP, MYP, DP)
What are the programme standards and practices?
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A person who demonstrates the attributes of the IB learner profile.
What is an internationally minded person?
200
One who supports the PYP through collaboration, trainings,resources, and communications as needed for all staff, parents, and the community
What is the PYP Coordinator?
200
Areas of global significance for all students in all cultures; offer students the opportunity to explore commonalities of human experience; are supported by knowledge, concepts, and skills from the traditional subject areas but utilize them in ways that transcend the confines of these subjects; are revisited throughout the students' years of schooling, so that the end result is immersion in broad-ranging, in-depth, articulated curriculum content; and contrubute to the common ground that unifies the curriculums in all PYP schools
What are the transdisciplinary themes?
200
What we want students to feel, value, and demonstrate towards people, towards the environment, and towards learning
What are the attitudes?
200
exploring, wondering, questioning, experimenting, playing with possibilities, making connections between previous and current learning, making predictions and acting purposefully, collecting data and reporting findings, clarifying existing ideas, making and testing theories, researching and seeking information, taking and defending a position, solving problems ina variety of ways
What is inquiry?
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There is close alignment between the educational beliefs and the values of the school and those of the programme.
What is Standard A1?
300
The school's provision for second language teaching and mother-tongue language support that meets the needs of the students and reflects the principles of the programme
What is the school's language policy?
300
The theory and application of good classroom practice; activities and best practices; "How best will we learn?"
What is the taught curriculum?
300
Modeled by adults in the school community; voluntary; beneficial when students are able to witness the outcomes; usually begins in a small way; arises from genuine concern and commitment; includes anticipated consequences; may require adult supervision; may not always be witnessed by the teacher (often happens beyond the classroom); and does not have to be grand
What is action within the PYP?
300
One sentence that expresses concisely an enduring understanding that is substantial enough to generate in-depth inquiries; is concept-driven; promotes the ability to think critically; challenges and extends students' prior knowledge; and is a means of extending students' understanding of the transdisciplinary theme
What is a central idea?
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The school promotes international-mindedness on the part of the adults and the students in the school community.
What is Standard A2?
400
An in-depth guide to all aspects of student learning in the context of the PYP of the International Baccalaureate; a guide to curriculum in the traditional sense as well as a guide to the theory behind, and application of, good classroom practice including effective and appropriate assessment
What is Making the PYP Happen?
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Knowledge, concepts, skills, attitudes, and action
What are the essential elements of the written curriculum?
400
What we want students to be able to do (think, communicate, socialize, research, self-manage)
What are the transdisciplinary skills?
400
Three or four ideas to be studied that clarify the central idea and define the scope of a unit
What are lines of inquiry?
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A school that regardless of location, size or constitution, strives towards developing an internationally minded person.
What is a PYP school?
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The school demonstrates ongoing commitment to, and provides support for, the programme through appropriate administrative structures and systems, staffing and resources.
What standard B1?
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The identification of a framework of what's worth knowing; those concepts that will stick with the students; "What do we want to learn?"
What is the written curriculum?
500
In the final year of the programme, all students complete a programme-specific project that allows them to demonstrate a consolidation of their learning
What is exhibition?
500
Coming together, working collaboratively, being flexible and open-minded, and supporting each other for a common goal
What is teamwork?