IBMYP Fundamental Concepts

Holistic Learning             Communication            Intercultural Awareness

Holistic Learning      

Instruction that employs the IBMYP model places a premium on holistic, interdisciplinary learning refined through engagement with five Areas of Interaction. These areas serve as conceptual lenses through which students explore and examine ideas, probe connections across and through subject areas, and use what they are learning in school to solve real world problems.

•  Approaches to Learning (ATL) - This area focuses on the development of intellectual discipline, attitudes, strategies and skills that result in critical, coherent and independent thought and the capacity to solve problems and make decisions.

• Community and Service - Service encourages students to look beyond themselves to develop community awareness and concern, a sense of responsibility, and skills and attitudes needed to make an effective contribution to society.

•  Homo faber – Using “Man the Maker” to analyze evolution, processes and products of human imagination, students explore the inventive and creative nature of humanity. Students consider the impact of innovation—including their own work—on society and on the mind.

•  Environment - This area aims to help students recognize humanity’s dependence and interdependence with the environment. In the MYP, environment extends from personal and school settings to encompass local, national and global environmental issues.

•  Health and Social Education - This area prepares students for a physically and mentally healthy life, aware of potential hazards and able to make informed choices. It develops in students a sense of responsibility and for their own well being as they develop healthy relationships with others.

Communication

Glasgow ’s IBMYP emphasizes inquiry, understanding, reflection, and expression. Our students develop proficiency in a second language and explore other forms of expression as well. We celebrate the capacity of the fine and performing arts to communicate human meaning across time, space, culture, and civilizations.

Intercultural Awareness

Glasgow ’s IBMYP helps students developing attitudes, knowledge and skills as they learn about their own and other’s cultural, linguistic and national stories. Glasgow ’s remarkably diverse, international students 1) engage in meaningful discussions about global issues; 2) identify common values, beliefs and characteristics broadly shared by members of the human family; 3) examine and celebrate values, beliefs and characteristics that distinguish their own cultures. We value every member of the school community as we share in one another’s lives and act to support people everywhere.