IB Learner Profile: Communicator

The IB Learner profile aims to develop students who are communicators. Students who are communicators understand and express ideas and information confidently and creatively in more than one language and in a variety of modes of communication. They work effectively and willingly in collaboration with others.

How can parents help to develop students who are Communicators at home?

• Take turns speaking and listening to one another about your daily events.

• Explore other forms of communication including symbols, signs, and sounds.

• Read a variety of texts and find connections between the books and your child's life.

• Discuss the TV programs and videos you watch together.

• Make books, magazines, and other reading material readily available.

• Take time to listen to your child when he/she talks with you, by turning off technology and providing undivided attention.

• Ask questions about what they are saying, ask for explanations.

• Act out stories, plays, poems, use language in fun creative ways.

• Sing together.

• Support other forms of communication via art, dance, music etc.