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What do we mean by High quality learning and teaching at the Anglo?

At the Anglo we understand High quality learning and teaching as:

A holistic process that is constantly evolving. It occurs inside our classrooms, via our IB curriculum, our house system and through our extensive range of extra-curricular activities, trips, as well as through our community life.

Our curriculum is inclusive and it focuses on our learners receiving the support they need to understand and access learning and to reaffirm their identities. We want to ensure all learners are appropriately challenged and make progress.

Teachers differentiate based upon their clear awareness of learners’ needs. Teaching and learning is both globally focused and inclusive, embracing British and Colombian culture. This takes place in a state-of-the-art, student-centred and inspiring learning environment.

We believe that high quality learning and teaching supports learners to develop positive relationships with and between everyone involved in their academic environment. These relationships are built on mutual respect and with an understanding that learners are responsible for their own learning journey.

High quality learning and teaching also supports learners to be aware of their own impact on our community, the wider global community and the environment as well as to carefully consider issues from more than one perspective.

Anglo DNA-2023.pdf

At Colegio Anglo Colombiano we aim to be the best IB world school in Latin America. To this end we believe high quality learning and teaching is a holistic process that involves all members of the community; it is part of our DNA.

Fundamental to achieving this vision is:

Challenge - Our learners are provided with well planned, developmentally appropriate learning opportunities that reaffirm their identities and encourage them to reflect and continuously improve. Our learners are encouraged to develop and pursue challenging personal goals.
Global Citizenship - Our learners understand they have rights and responsibilities, knowledge and understanding and a commitment to making a difference both locally and globally. In order to achieve this, our school culture is deeply rooted in Colombian and British values and traditions which are reflected in our international curriculum and the importance placed on a high level of cultural intelligence. Our learners are provided with opportunities to understand multiple perspectives and respect different ways of seeing and interpreting the world. They understand the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of an interconnected digital world. They apply critical thinking and take risks while finding innovative solutions in creating a better and more sustainable world. Our learners demonstrate an interest for the natural environment and actively promote environmental stewardship.

3. Conceptual inquiry - Our learners explore complex ideas and concepts throughout and across disciplines, connecting what they are learning with previous knowledge and interests. They are encouraged to ask questions, explore, experiment, reflect, solve problems and take risks. They develop approaches to learning and dispositions that will equip them with the necessary skills to continue learning independently beyond school. They transfer what they have learned to real life situations and contexts.

4. Learning Environments - Our learners are provided with a learning environment that encompasses physical premises inside and outside our classrooms, virtual platforms and other technologies, as well as the experiences, contexts and cultures brought in by the members of our community. Our learning environment helps optimise the ability of learners to learn. Furthermore, our learning environment promotes and ensures learners feel safe (physically, culturally, socially, emotionally) in our community and become responsible for their own learning.

5. Relationships - Our learners develop a strong sense of community, group identity, and learning partnerships. Relationships in our school are built on mutual respect and with an understanding that learners are responsible for their own learning journey. Relationships also support learners to become aware of their impact on our community, the wider global community and the environment.

6. Diversity - Our learners are provided with a safe and positive environment where all members of the community are visible and valued; they are able to develop and affirm their identities and self esteem. We understand every member of our community has traits and characteristics that make them unique and we promote respect for different beliefs and values, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity. We foster the development of global citizenship and learners who embody all the attributes of the IB Learner Profile. At the Anglo, everyone can fully exercise their rights and responsibilities.

7. Inclusion - Our learners are set up for success. We embrace learner variability by placing learners at the centre of the curriculum with their strengths and challenges, removing barriers and giving them equal opportunities to participate and engage in quality learning. We seek to ensure that all learners feel welcome and reach their maximum potential. Differentiated teaching in our school involves providing learners with multiple means of engagement, representation, action and expression. All of our learners are given equitable opportunities to learn.

8. Assessment - Our learners are provided with rigorous assessment practices. We believe effective assessment is essential for developing our learners and an integral part of the learning and teaching process. Our assessment practices involve self and peer assessment as well as ongoing teacher assessment to monitor, document and measure progress and attainment. Teachers analyse and utilise assessment data and evidence to reflect on and evaluate the effectiveness of learning and teaching. The outcomes of assessment are shared with learners and the learning community in order to establish targets and next steps in the learners’ journey.

9. Agency - Our learners are competent, self-motivated and inquiring people who can engage, reflect and adjust their own learning in order to achieve challenging personal goals. They have voice, choice and ownership in their learning. They are inspired to be driven, committed and principled, as well as socially and environmentally responsible.

All of these elements are fundamental to the Anglo Way, and the development of well rounded lifelong learners that are knowledgeable, competent and capable of expressing themselves, through academics, arts, sports, leisure, as well as spiritually and socially. Our learners are taught to reflect and be responsible for their actions and are engaged in learning that requires them to apply critical thinking skills to solve real-world problems. They have a high level of self confidence and can identify their own strengths and areas of opportunity in their learning journey.