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Power Point PresentationInternational Baccalaureate Primary Years Program
The International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) is a non-government organization with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Based on the pattern of no single country, the IB program is a deliberate combination of the specialization required in some national systems and the breadth preferred in others. Currently, there are over 850 IB-affiliated schools in over 100 countries. The IB Diploma Program is recognized for university entrance throughout the world.
The IBPYP Curriculum
The International Baccalaureate’s Primary Years Program (IBPYP) Elementary Curriculum reflects the understanding that our students have highly individualized learning styles. In their classrooms, students and teachers collaborate to develop meaningful, individualized goals within an environment that stresses curriculum philosophies such as cooperative and inquiry-based learning.
The IBPYP Curriculum:
is framed by the philosophies and goals of the IBPYP,
is developmentally appropriate,
emphasizes a skills and process approach,
nurtures global awareness,
stresses “how to learn” rather than “what to learn”,
reflects a variety of teaching and learning styles,
develops the use of language across the entire curriculum,
incorporates a range of authentic assessment strategies, and
is based on IBPYP student learning expectations.
The IBPYP is an inquiry-based curriculum framework for children aged 3-12 years (grades Pre-K – 6) and it combines current research practice from a range of national systems with the wealth of knowledge and experience from international schools. This program, which is broken into six major units of study/year, was developed to meet the needs of internationally mobile students.
The IBPYP focuses on individual growth and personal fulfillment as well as educational achievement. It is organized by the use of broad, trans-disciplinary themes as the context from within which students explore relevant and significant concepts, develop and learn necessary skills, foster appropriate attitudes, take responsible action and acquire a wide body of knowledge.
The IBPYP curriculum framework is an expression and extension of three inter-related questions:
What do we want to learn?
How best will we learn?
How will we know what we have learned?
The Primary Years Program encourages students:
to explore relevant and significant concepts, learn necessary skills, foster appropriate action and acquire a wide body of knowledge,
to use their own experiences as a basis for learning,
to engage in a variety of learning experiences
to use a range of resources and technologies to find, document and analyze information,
to use critical-thinking skills,
to communicate what they have learned through a range of media,
to dialogue and work cooperatively with others,
to develop an ability to think and make choices independently,
to connect learning to real-life situations, and
to foster an awareness of and respect for the culture and traditions of the host country and the global community.
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