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Power Point PresentationInternational Baccalaureate Middle Years Program
The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program (IBMYP) curriculum seeks to provide both breadth and balance to the school’s educational program, and is designed to help students achieve their full potential. In keeping with the school’s mission, the curriculum offered does not align with any particular national system, rather it provides a comprehensive international curriculum which reflects our multinational student body, and thus aims to meet all of our students’ needs.
The IBMYP is central to the planning and implementation of the programs designed. It is a complete and coherent program which provides the academic challenges and life skills appropriate to adolescents.
The IBMYP is designed to serve the educational and developmental needs of pupils in Grades 7-10. The daily organization is based on the block-schedule concept, with common planning time provided for staff members.
The eight subject areas of the IBMYP provide a broad, traditional foundation of knowledge while concentrating upon integrating the natural relationships between subjects.
At the center of our curriculum is the student, whose development is naturally the focus of the Middle Years Program. The adolescent faces a complex world, and it is the challenge of the school to give a holistic view of knowledge, situations and problems. The Areas of Interaction is vital in raising this awareness. These Areas of Interaction are not separate timetabled subjects, but themes embedded throughout the curriculum. They both widen the scope of disciplines and allow ideas to cross the boundaries from one subject to another.
The five Areas of Interaction are:
Approaches to Learning: Since one of our responsibilities, as a school, is to require quality work from our students, our mission is to help students learn how to learn. Approaches to Learning is the first step by which teachers develop with students the process of learning this vital skill. In each subject, learning skills will be focused upon and incorporated. This leads from organizational skills and learning strategies to analytical, critical and independent thinking. This ability to work independently is demonstrated in the production of the personal project, undertaken in grade ten.
Community Service: This is an essential part of the program. The mission of HIS is not limited to intellectual achievement, but includes the development of the whole person. Students will experience the social reality of their environment and learn to gain a sense of responsibility as a member of their community.
Environment: Students are confronted with global issues of a deteriorating environment along with related problems of an economic, social and political nature. They also have to deal with everyday environment-related issues both at school and at home. At HIS, students are given insight into the issues and are enabled to make balanced assessments offering possible solutions.
Health and Social Education: Health is a reality that cannot be separated from the total development of the person and society. The Health and Social Education theme aims to educate the whole person and therefore prepares students for a physically and mentally healthy life. It will also develop a sense of responsibility for their own well-being and their physical and social environment.
Homo Faber: This Area of Interaction is concerned with products of the ethical, creative and inventive genius of human beings and their impact on society and on the human mind. By focusing on such areas, a heightened awareness develops the accomplishments of the past and the possible accomplishments of the future. This Area of Interaction is also used to enable the students to see the links between educational theory and practical reality.
The Middle Years Program Approach
Child Centered
Common to all subject areas
Attainable for all students
Reinforcement in all subjects
Subject integration
Performing at the expected scholastic level
Participating actively in the learning process
Developing systematic methods of research and learning
Communicating effectively
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