INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE ?
The International Baccalaureate® (IB) is a non-profit educational foundation, motivated by its mission, focused on the student.
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.
Strategy
The IB has seen tremendous planned growth in the past five years, delivering successful performance through a strong focus on quality, access and infrastructure.
The new strategy builds upon our successes and ensures that the IB has a clear direction for the next five years. At its heart lies our ambition to establish the IB as a global leader in international education. To achieve this, the IB Board of Governors has endorsed the vision together with a set of strategic goals and strategic objectives.
"For many years the IB has played an important role in changing the lives of students through a strong academic curriculum. IB programmes engage students in an international education that provokes a greater acceptance and understanding of the world around them. I am delighted to see such a forward-looking organization setting its future strategy in a way that will enable more students to benefit from an IB education."
- Carol Bellamy, Chair of the IB Board of Governors.
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.
Strategy
The IB has seen tremendous planned growth in the past five years, delivering successful performance through a strong focus on quality, access and infrastructure.
The new strategy builds upon our successes and ensures that the IB has a clear direction for the next five years. At its heart lies our ambition to establish the IB as a global leader in international education. To achieve this, the IB Board of Governors has endorsed the vision together with a set of strategic goals and strategic objectives.
"For many years the IB has played an important role in changing the lives of students through a strong academic curriculum. IB programmes engage students in an international education that provokes a greater acceptance and understanding of the world around them. I am delighted to see such a forward-looking organization setting its future strategy in a way that will enable more students to benefit from an IB education."
- Carol Bellamy, Chair of the IB Board of Governors.
WHAT IS PRIMARY YEARS PROGRAMME [PYP]?
The IB Primary Years Programme [PYP], for students aged 3 to 12, focuses on the development of the whole child as an inquirer, both in the classroom and in the world outside.
The IB Primary Years Programme [PYP ]:
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The PYP stresses the importance of determining the existing knowledge that students bring to new experiences, as it is critical to allow children the opportunity to make connections between their previous and current perceptions. The PYP offers a curriculum, which is:
In addition, this sensitivity is enhanced, as students are encouraged to develop the attributes of the learner profile. We aim to develop internationally minded students who are:
Inquiry, initiated by the students or the teacher that moves the students from their current level of understanding to a new and deeper level of understanding can mean:
- Internationally minded:
In addition, this sensitivity is enhanced, as students are encouraged to develop the attributes of the learner profile. We aim to develop internationally minded students who are:
- Thinkers
- Inquirers
- Knowledgeable
- Communicators
- Risk-takers
- Principled
- Caring
- Open-minded
- Balanced
- Reflective
- Transdisciplinary: It is a framework guided by six transdisciplinary themes of global significance, explored using knowledge and skills derived from six subject areas as well as transdisciplinary skills.
- Inquiry based: The PYP is committed to structured inquiry as a vehicle for learning, building upon prior knowledge and experience and emphasizing how to learn and how to find out the things we want to know. Children’s natural curiosity about their world is nurtured through the inquiry process. At Ras Al Khaimah Academy, children are involved in their learning and are guided through the processes of questioning, investigating, reflecting, sharing and taking action.
Inquiry, initiated by the students or the teacher that moves the students from their current level of understanding to a new and deeper level of understanding can mean:
- Exploring, wondering and questioning
- Experimenting and playing with possibilities
- Making connections between previous learning and current learning
- Making predictions and acting purposefully to see what happens
- Collecting data and reporting findings
- Deepening understanding through the application of a concept
- Making and testing theories
- Researching and seeking information
- Taking and defending a position
- Solving problems in a variety of ways