In KCIS, we believe that:

The curriculum should be flexible so as to accommodate all levels of ability and reflect both affective and cognitive goals.

Teaching strategies should be flexible, creative, sensitive, and varied to actively engage the student in the learning process.

Students should have the opportunity to grow academically, emotionally, and socially. Students also need to develop self-responsibility, self-insight, and self-esteem.

Administrators should be readily available to both students and teachers, they and should maintain a level of discipline which is fair, clearly defined, and consistent.  Administrators must work as a team with teachers, be able to make decisions, and support teachers.

Teachers should be caring and dedicated to the profession they have chosen, and serve as role models for their students, encouraging positive attitudes and behaviors in these students.  

The discipline code should be uniform and fairly enforced.

Students should be encouraged to develop a sense of community and citizenship.

Parents should be responsible for their children and supportive of school policies.

The middle years mark a period of transition between childhood and adolescence. Throughout this period, the child develops in many directions and at different rates physically, intellectually, socially, and emotionally. KCIS seeks to provide students a consistency that will guide them throughout this transition period and prepare them for higher learning. Curricular and co-curricular programs in KCIS are planned and implemented to support students as they develop and to provide them with the utmost in educational opportunities.

To this end, our teachers will focus on helping each student develop socially, emotionally, and academically. KCIS ensures that students learn important skills and obtain a considerable knowledge base that will prepare them for the rigors of higher learning. It is critical that students develop good study skills and mature appropriately so that they can be successful in high school.  Moreover, at KCIS we want students to “carry the torch” beyond our walls by becoming independent, lifelong learners.  We are dedicated to teaching students how to become effective communicators and to giving them the skills that they need to become complex thinkers and problem solvers.  It is our desire that our students learn how to work collaboratively with others and to become responsible global participants.

The IB Middle Years Programme:

● addresses holistically students’ intellectual, social, emotional and physical well-being

● provides students opportunities to develop the knowledge, attitudes and skills they need in order to manage complexity and take responsible action for the future

● ensures breadth and depth of understanding through study in eight subject groups

● requires the study of at least two languages (language of instruction and additional language of choice) to support students in understanding their own cultures and those of others

● empowers students to participate in service within the community

● helps to prepare students for further education, the workplace and a lifetime of learning.