ib areas of interaction
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IB Areas of Interaction. Approaches to Learning. How do I learn best? How do I know? How do I effectively communicate my understanding?. Community and Service. How do we live in relation to each other? How can I help others? How can I contribute to the community?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
• How do I learn best? • How do I know? • How do I effectively communicate
my understanding?
• How do we live in relation to each other? • How can I help others? • How can I contribute to the
community?
• How do I think and act? • How am I changing? • How can I make wise decisions to
look after the physical and mental well being of myself and others?
• Where do I live? • What are our environments?• How are environments interconnected?• What resources do we have or need?• What are my responsibilities?
• Why and how do we create?• How has the human mind
influenced the world? • What are the consequences
of human thought and action?
Holistic Learning• All knowledge is interrelated.• The curriculum helps develop the “whole
person” and create a “well rounded” individual.
• Discovers relationships between areas of knowledge, the individual, communities, and the world.
• Helps build intrinsic motivation, encourages deeper, lasting understanding, and facilitates transfer of learning.
Intercultural Awareness
• Develops a knowledge and attitude about your culture, as well as the culture of others. • Helps acquire a global perspective.
Communication
• The ability to understand and express ideas and information confidently and creatively in more than one language and in a variety of modes.
• Language is integral to exploring and sustaining personal development, cultural identity and intercultural understanding, as well as being the major medium of social communication.
• Develop verbal and nonverbal ways to share and acquire knowledge through language and other modes of thinking.