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 Learner Profile is the set of attributes we hope to help our students and ourselves grow in through the Middle Years Programme. They should be active throughout the different subject areas as well as in common areas within our schools. When students arrive at the Community Project, they will be able to display how they have grown through the Learner Profile.

ATL skills that students have developed in subject groups will prepare them for working more independently and developing an MYP project over an extended period of time. Projects, essays and investigations carried out in the subject groups are important vehicles for helping students to develop the skills and attitudes needed to complete MYP projects.

ATL skills prove a solid foundation for learning independently and with others, demonstrating learning and reflecting on the process of learning. They help students to become more autonomous, strategic and self-motivated and ultimately prepare students for responsible participation in local and global contexts.

(If you want to learn more about how ATL skills can be incorporated in the classroom daily, check out this article.)