Glendowie College is a candidate school* for the MYP. This school is pursuing authorization as an IB World School. IB World Schools share a common philosophy - a commitment to high-quality, challenging, international education - that we believe is important for our students. * Only schools authorized by the IB Organisation can offer any of its four academic programmes: the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), the Diploma Programme, or the Career-related Programme (CP). Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted.For further information about the IB and its programmes visit http://www.ibo.org
Glendowie College delivers the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) in its junior school, i.e. Years 9 and 10.
The International Baccalaureate aims 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 MYP is a framework of learning that encourages students to become creative, critical and reflective thinkers. The MYP emphasizes intellectual challenge, encouraging students to make connections between their studies in traditional subjects and the real world. It fosters the development of skills for communication, intercultural understanding and global engagement—essential qualities for young people who are becoming global leaders.
The MYP is flexible enough to accommodate the demands of most national or local curriculums.
The MYP:
The MYP has distinctive features that help students develop disciplinary (and interdisciplinary) understandings
Approaches to Teaching and Learning The approach to teaching and learning provides students with the tools to enable them to take responsibility for their own learning by developing awareness of how they learn best. At Glendowie College we teach these skills and tools explicitly to support students to be successful learners. The Approaches to Learning include the following areas: communication, research, self-management, social and thinking.
Learner ProfileThe Learner Profile is central to helping our students at Glendowie College learn to respect themselves, others and the world around them.
The profile aims to develop learners who are:
For more information you can view the link: IB Learner Profile
Global Context Global contexts provide shared starting points for inquiry into what it means to be internationally minded. The curriculum promotes multilingualism, intercultural understanding and global engagement.
Concepts The concepts studied are big ideas that have relevance within specific disciplines and across traditional subject areas. A conceptual approach supports interdisciplinary learning which allows students to make connections between subjects and to develop ideas and solutions that incorporate learning and knowledge from different spheres.
Community Project
The community project focuses on community and service, encouraging students to explore their right and responsibility to implement service as action in the community. The community project is for Year 10 students with the goal to develop awareness of needs in various communities and address those needs through service learning. At Glendowie College the students engage in a sustained, in-depth inquiry leading to service as action in the community. The community project may be completed in groups of a maximum of three students.