greenfield community school – teaching & learning
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Greenfield Community School provides a high quality, creative and challenging international education, based on the International Baccalaureate Philosophy. We foster within each student, staff member and community member an enduring passion for learning and empowering each individual to become a caring global citizen.TRANSCRIPT
Greenfield Community School – Teaching & Learning
Learning
We, at GCS, strongly believe that by choosing the appropriate approach to teaching we will enable our
students to take responsibility for their own learning experience. By doing that we will be assisting them
in growing into knowledgeable human beings always eager to improve and learn new things.
At the centre of this particular approach is the concept of “lear i g how to learn" and developing a
students' awareness of how they learn best. This is done through different strategies and processes that
are developed throughout the students GCS IB World Continuum learning experience.
Why the International Baccalaureate Curriculum?
Founded in 1968, The IB currently works with 3,698 schools in 147 countries to offer the four IB
programmes to approximately 1,151,000 students aged 3 to 19 years.
The International Baccalaureate “ai s 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."
The IB is currently the fastest growing curriculum in the world and the reason for that is because the
curriculum itself is always updating to keep up with the changing way students learn and how
technology can help support that learning.
The philosophy, however, has remained the same – how can education help to create a more peaceful
world? The answers start with the IB Learner Profile.
Inquirers - Knowledgeable - Thinkers - Communicators - Open-minded - Caring - Risk-takers - Balanced -
Reflective
By developing the above character traits during a stude t’s 12 years of school, the IB creates a life-long
love of learning and intercultural acceptance and respect.
Integrated subject learning occurs through Units of Inquiry. These units come together across the main
curriculum areas of Languages; Mathematics; Social Studies; Science and Technology; The Arts; Physical
and Social Education.
Themes centre on the following questions – Who are we, Where are we in place and time, How can we
best express ourselves, How does the world work, How do we organize ourselves, How can we best
share our planet.
Our students explore and question. They make predictions and play with possibilities. They question
existing norms and act with purpose. They begin to understand that there are many ways to solve
problems. IB students do ’t memorize, but they do internalize.
They begin to evaluate at an early age how they learn best. Each student then takes a close look at
Approaches to Learning and tests various approaches that work best for them, thereby developing
strong study habits and organizational skills.
Both parents and educators all over the world are turning to the IB as a way not just to give students a
quality international education, but to better equip them to cope with the ever changing and transient
world we live in.
IB Programmes:
The IB offers four programmes for students aged 3 to 19. The programmes can be offered individually or
as a continuum by IB World Schools.
The Primary Years Programme (PYP) for students aged 3 to 12 started in 1997 and is now
offered by 1,115 IB World Schools. Primary Years Programme at a glance
The Middle Years Programme (MYP) for students aged 11 to 16 started in 1994 and is now
offered by 1,041 IB World Schools. Middle Years Programme at a glance
The Diploma Programme for students aged 16 to 19 started in 1968 with first examinations in
1970 and is now offered by 2,462 IB World Schools. Diploma Programme at a glance
The Career-related Certificate (IBCC) for students aged 16 to 19 is a new programme within the
IB.
What Makes the IB Program so Unique?
IB offers a continuum of education, consisting of four programmes for students aged 3 to 19.
IB Ensures high quality education sustained for over 35 years.
IB encourages international-mindedness in IB students. To do this, students must first develop
an understanding of their own cultural and national identity.
IB encourages a positive attitude to learning by boosting students to ask challenging questions,
to critically reflect, to develop research skills, to learn how to learn and to participate in
community service.
IB ensures that their programmes are accessible to students in a wide variety of schools—
national, international, public and private—through their unique relationship with IB World
Schools worldwide.
Please visit the ibo.org website to get more detail information.
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