ConceptsForm

Function

Causation

Change

Connection

Perspective

Responsibility

Reflection

The IB-PYP Learner ProfileThinker Open-Minded Principled Balanced Reflective

Risk-Taker Inquirer Caring Communicator Knowledgeable

KnowledgeTransdisciplinary Themes

•Who We Are•Where We are in Place

and Time•How We Express

Ourselves•How the World Works

•How We Organize Ourselves

•Sharing the Planet

ActionAttitudesAppreciationCommitmentConfidenceCo-operationCreativityCuriosityEmpathyEnthusiasmIndependenceIntegrityRespectTolerance

Transdisciplinary Skills

SocialCommunicationResearchThinking

Self-Management

The Written Curriculum (What do we want to learn?)

Learners Constructing Meaning

The Taught Curriculum (How best will we learn?)

The Learned Curriculum (How will we know what we have

learned?)

Inquiry

Constructivism

Collaborative Planning

Collaborative Reflection

AssessmentSelf, peer, teacherFormal/informal

Formative/summative

ObservationPortfoliosConferences

The International Baccalaureate Mission Statement•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 organization 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.

Iles School MissionThe mission of Iles School is to recognize and nurture the talents and abilities of gifted children as they develop their awareness of themselves as internationally-minded people.

Iles School VisionIles School creates a rigorous, global learning environment where students will become active, life-long learners by using their skills to explore their passions.