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The Learner Profile in Action
Denver, November 2006
  •                       Judith Fabian
  •    Head of Programme Development
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"The continuum of international education"

  • The continuum of international education:


  • Programme standards and practices  October 2005


  • IB learner profile March 2006
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"The knowledge society requires critical..."

  • The knowledge society requires critical and creative thinkers
  • Belief in the development of the whole child
  • The need to educate for a better world
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"PYP schools"

  • PYP schools 298


  • MYP schools 508


  • Diploma schools 1469
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"Return to ideals"

  • Return to ideals
  • Development of intellectual character in students
  • Coherence of educational experience
  • Teacher recruitment and appraisal
  • Structure for professional development
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"‘buy-in"

  • ‘buy-in’ from everyone
  • Diploma programme: ideals and values plus content and skills
  • assessment
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"“My premise is that..."

  •    “My premise is that this culture and we as members of it have yielded too easily to what is doable and practical….In the process we have sacrificed the pursuit of what is in our hearts. We find ourselves giving in to our doubts, and settling for what we know how to do, or can learn to do, instead of pursuing what matters most to us and living with the adventure and anxiety this requires.”
  •                                                        Peter Block
  •                     “The Answer to How is Yes”
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"“Teachers are not deliverers..."

  •     “Teachers are not deliverers but developers of learning. Those who focus on teaching techniques and curriculum standards and do not also engage teachers in the greater social and moral questions of their time promote a diminished view of teaching and teacher’s professionalism that has no place in a sophisticated knowledge society.”


  •        Andy Hargreaves
  •          “Teaching in a Knowledge Society”
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"The IB learner profile"




  • The IB learner profile: the lived curriculum