Learning

Question 1

Designing a coherent curriculum (0401)
Coherent curriculum 1: The school plans and implements a coherent curriculum that organizes learning and teaching within and across the years of its IB programme(s). (0401-01)

Answer 1

Coherent curriculum 1.1: The school designs its curriculum in accordance with programme documentation. (0401-01-0100)

Coherent curriculum 1.2: The school articulates its curriculum horizontally and vertically. (0401-01-0200)

Coherent curriculum 1.3: The school demonstrates that all applicable IB curriculum frameworks are fully integrated with the requirements for school, local, state or provincial and national education authorities. (0401-01-0300)

Coherent curriculum 1.4: The school provides collaborative planning time for teachers to incorporate IB philosophy into the curriculum. (0401-01-0400)

Coherent curriculum 1.5: The school articulates its schedule and curriculum to make it possible for students to make connections across their learning. (0401-01-0500)

Coherent curriculum 1.6: The school demonstrates that the curriculum is influenced by an understanding of students’ prior knowledge, identities, backgrounds, needs and contexts. (0401-01-0600)

Question 2

Designing a coherent curriculum (0401)
Coherent curriculum 2: Teachers collaborate to design, plan and deliver the school’s IB programme(s). (0401-02)

Answer 2

Coherent curriculum 2.1: Teachers collaborate to plan and design units that meet programme requirements and are in accordance with programme documentation. (0401-02-0100)

DP 1: The school provides opportunities for teachers to use collaborative planning and reflection to integrate theory of knowledge into each subject. (0401-02-0131)

Coherent curriculum 2.2: Teachers plan and reflect collaboratively to consider connections and relationships between different areas, and reinforce shared concepts, content and skills. (0401-02-0200)

Coherent curriculum 2.3: Teachers use human, physical and virtual resources to aid and extend their collaboration. (0401-02-0300)

Coherent curriculum 2.4: Teachers use collaborative planning and reflection to address the elements of an IB education. (0401-02-0400)

Question 3

Designing a coherent curriculum (0401)
Coherent curriculum 3: The school develops, regularly reviews and shares its curriculum in ways that explicitly engage the school community. (0401-03)

Answer 3

Coherent curriculum 3.1: The school informs the school community of ongoing developments in the programme(s) and incorporates these into curriculum development. (0401-03-0100)

Coherent curriculum 3.2: The school ensures that all teachers and pedagogical leadership teams have access to relevant communities that support the development of the programme(s). (0401-03-0200)

Coherent curriculum 3.3: The school reviews IB requirements for learning, teaching and assessment, and communicates them to the school community. (0401-03-0300)

Coherent curriculum 3.4: The school regularly reviews required and supporting IB content. (0401-03-0400)

Coherent curriculum 3.5: The school ensures the curriculum is up to date and clearly communicated to the school community. (0401-03-0500)

DP 1: Teachers follow the DP review cycles and associated IB communications. (0401-03-0531)

Question 4

Students as lifelong learners (0402)
Lifelong learners 1: Students actively develop thinking, research, communication, social and self-management skills. (0402-01)

Answer 4

Lifelong learners 1.1: The school implements and reviews the development of the IB’s approaches to learning. (0402-01-0100)

Lifelong learners 1.2: The school implements and reviews processes that actively engage students in their own learning. (0402-01-0200)

Question 5

Students as lifelong learners (0402)
Lifelong learners 2: Students demonstrate and reflect on their continued development of the IB learner profile attributes. (0402-02)

Answer 5

Lifelong learners 2.1: Students understand the IB learner profile and can reflect on it effectively. (0402-02-0100)

Lifelong learners 2.2: Teachers provide students with opportunities in the curriculum to reflect on the growth and demonstration of their IB learner profile attributes. (0402-02-0200)

Lifelong learners 2.3: Students understand the connections between the IB learner profile and international-mindedness. (0402-02-0300)

Question 6

Students as lifelong learners (0402)
Lifelong learners 3: Students identify and foster healthy relationships, an understanding of shared responsibility, and the ability to collaborate effectively. (0402-03)

Answer 6

Lifelong learners 3.1: Students and teachers engage in learning experiences that are designed to include opportunities for students to collaborate. (0402-03-0100)

Lifelong learners 3.2: The school demonstrates that collaboration and effective relationship building are featured explicitly within the curriculum. (0402-03-0200)

Lifelong learners 3.3: Pedagogical leaders provide opportunities for student voice to be represented in the school. (0402-03-0300)

Question 7

Students as lifelong learners (0402)
Lifelong learners 4: Students grow in their ability to make informed, reasoned, ethical judgments. (0402-04)

Answer 7

Lifelong learners 4.1: Students and teachers comply with IB academic integrity guidelines. (0402-04-0100)

Lifelong learners 4.2: Students and teachers acknowledge the intellectual property of others when producing work. (0402-04-0200)

Lifelong learners 4.3: The school provides support and guidance for students on acknowledging the work of others, including guidance on citation and referencing. (0402-04-0300)

Lifelong learners 4.4: Teachers discuss with students the significance and importance of producing authentic and original work. (0402-04-0400)

Question 8

Students as lifelong learners (0402)
Lifelong learners 5: Students exercise the flexibility, perseverance and confidence they need to bring about positive change in the wider community and beyond. (0402-05)

Answer 8

Lifelong learners 5.1: The school provides opportunities for students to directly apply their learning by taking action. (0402-05-0100)

Lifelong learners 5.2: Students demonstrate a commitment to service with and for the community throughout their learning, in accordance with programme documentation. (0402-05-0200)

Question 9

Students as lifelong learners (0402)
Lifelong learners 6: Students take ownership of their learning by setting challenging goals and pursuing personal inquiries. (0402-06)

Answer 9

Lifelong learners 6.1: Students take opportunities to develop personal learning goals. (0402-06-0100)

Lifelong learners 6.2: Students take opportunities to ask questions and pursue personal inquiries and actions. (0402-06-0200)

DP 1: The school provides opportunities for students to take ownership of their learning through the DP core. (0402-06-0231)

Question 10

Students as lifelong learners (0402)
Lifelong learners 7: Students pursue opportunities to explore and develop their personal and cultural identities. (0402-07)

Answer 10

Lifelong learners 7.1: The school provides opportunities for students to explore and develop their personal and cultural identities. (0402-07-0100)

Lifelong learners 7.2: The school community affirms individual student identity through learning and teaching. (0402-07-0200)

Lifelong learners 7.3: Students take opportunities to develop their language profiles. (0402-07-0300)

Question 11

Approaches to teaching (0403)
Approaches to teaching 1: Teachers use inquiry, action and reflection to develop natural curiosity in students. (0403-01)

Answer 11

Approaches to teaching 1.1: Teachers use inquiry-based teaching strategies and learning engagements. (0403-01-0100)

Approaches to teaching 1.2: The school monitors and evaluates inquiry-based teaching strategies and learning engagements. (0403-01-0200)

Approaches to teaching 1.3: The school provides opportunities for students to actively engage in interactive and exploratory learning environments and/or play in accordance with programme documentation. (0403-01-0300)

Approaches to teaching 1.4: Teachers encourage student choice in appropriate places in the curriculum. (0403-01-0400)

Approaches to teaching 1.5: Teachers facilitate student exploration of their personal interests and ideas. (0403-01-0500)

Question 12

Approaches to teaching (0403)
Approaches to teaching 2: Teachers focus on conceptual understanding to support students in developing their ideas. (0403-02)

Answer 12

Approaches to teaching 2.1: Teachers demonstrate strategies focused on conceptual understanding. (0403-02-0100)

Approaches to teaching 2.2: Teachers plan and facilitate learning experiences through which students can develop their own conceptual understandings. (0403-02-0200)

Approaches to teaching 2.3: Students take opportunities to explore and develop their own conceptual understandings in appropriate places in the curriculum. (0403-02-0300)

Question 13

Approaches to teaching (0403)
Approaches to teaching 3: Teachers use local and global contexts to establish the relevance of the curriculum. (0403-03)

Answer 13

Approaches to teaching 3.1: Teachers ensure that there are clear examples of connections to local and global contexts in the curriculum. (0403-03-0100)

Approaches to teaching 3.2: Teachers encourage students to transfer their conceptual understandings to unfamiliar contexts. (0403-03-0200)

Question 14

Approaches to teaching (0403)
Approaches to teaching 4: Teachers promote effective relationships and purposeful collaboration to create a positive and dynamic learning community. (0403-04)

Answer 14

Approaches to teaching 4.1: Teachers collaborate to ensure a holistic and coherent learning experience for students in accordance with programme documentation. (0403-04-0100)

Approaches to teaching 4.2: Students collaborate with teachers and peers to plan, demonstrate, and assess their own learning. (0403-04-0200)

Approaches to teaching 4.3: The school provides opportunities for students to collaborate based on their strengths and abilities. (0403-04-0300)

Question 15

Approaches to teaching (0403)
Approaches to teaching 5: Teachers remove barriers to learning to enable every student to develop, pursue and achieve challenging personal learning goals. (0403-05)

Answer 15

Approaches to teaching 5.1: Teachers consider learner variability when planning students’ personal learning goals. (0403-05-0100)

Approaches to teaching 5.2: Teachers integrate prior knowledge into the curriculum to aid and extend learning for all students. (0403-05-0200)

Approaches to teaching 5.3: Teachers use IB-mandated policies to support students. (0403-05-0300)

Approaches to teaching 5.4: Teachers support language development with consideration for the language profiles of students. (0403-05-0400)

Approaches to teaching 5.5: Teachers use multiple technologies to aid and extend learning and teaching. (0403-05-0500)

Question 16

Approaches to assessment (0404)
Approaches to assessment 1: Students and teachers use feedback to improve learning, teaching and assessment. (0404-01)

Answer 16

Approaches to assessment 1.1: Students and teachers use feedback to support stated outcomes and expectations, in accordance with IB philosophy and assessment documentation. (0404-01-0100)

Approaches to assessment 1.2: The school uses specific and constructive school-based reporting to provide students and teachers with information that can be used to improve learning, teaching and assessment. (0404-01-0200)

Question 17

Approaches to assessment (0404)
Approaches to assessment 2: The school uses assessment methods that are varied and fit-for-purpose for the curriculum and stated learning outcomes and objectives. (0404-02)

Answer 17

Approaches to assessment 2.1: Teachers use a variety of assessment methods that are connected to stated learning objectives and outcomes. (0404-02-0100)

DP 1: The school uses the objectives and assessment tools for each subject, and component of the DP core, to build summative assessments of student learning. (0404-02-0131)

DP 2: The school records and submits IB-validated assessments for the components of the DP core in accordance with programme documentation. (0404-02-0132)

Approaches to assessment 2.2: The school demonstrates that assessment practices are formed around conceptual learning. (0404-02-0200)

Approaches to assessment 2.3: The school ensures that from the time of enrollment students and legal guardians are aware of and have access to documentation describing the relevant programme regulations and requirements regarding assessment. (0404-02-0300)

Question 18

Approaches to assessment (0404)
Approaches to assessment 3: The school administrates assessment consistently, fairly, inclusively and transparently. (0404-03)

Answer 18

Approaches to assessment 3.1: The school administrates assessment in accordance with IB rules, regulations, and/or relevant programme documentation. (0404-03-0100)

DP 1: Teachers standardize their assessment of student work to ensure reliable results in accordance with IB guidelines. (0404-03-0131)

Approaches to assessment 3.2: The school regularly reviews and ensures compliance with all access arrangements. (0404-03-0200)

Approaches to assessment 3.3: The school ensures that external reporting and/or predictions are as accurate as possible, and are appropriately designed for the contexts in which they are required. (0404-03-0300)

DP 1: The school communicates forecasted grades to institutions (such as those to higher education institutions) and predicted grades to the IB, in ways that value academic integrity and reflect as much accuracy as possible. (0404-03-0331)

Approaches to assessment 3.4: The school implements, communicates and regularly reviews consistent and fair systems and processes for reporting student progress and handling appeals or challenges. (0404-03-0400)

Approaches to assessment 3.5: The school monitors and evaluates the delivery of assessments to ensure that they are as seamless as reasonable. (0404-03-0500)

Question 19

Approaches to assessment (0404)
Approaches to assessment 4: Students take opportunities to consolidate their learning through assessment. (0404-04)

Answer 19

Approaches to assessment 4.1: The school provides students with opportunities to consolidate their learning through a variety of assessments. (0404-04-0100)

DP 1: The school ensures that students submit the extended essay toward the end of the DP, and focuses on providing students with opportunities to engage in topics of their own choice. (0404-04-0131)