Personal & Professional Skills

Personal and Professional Skills Course (PPS)

PPS is designed to introduce students to life skills and to help students operate in a variety of contexts, now and in the future.  The PPS course explores a variety of knowledge, concepts, skills and attributes, while supporting IBCP candidates in their learning and engagement in the programme. With the learner at the center, PPS engages students in the development of thinking skills, intercultural understanding, communication skills and personal development through the themes of communities, technology, environment and workplace.

Aims of PPS:

Through PPS, students develop:

• Good intellectual habits

• Practical problem-solving skillss

• Self-awareness and an appreciation of identity, individual strengths and individual limitations

• An appreciation of ethical issues relating to her or her personal, social and work experience

• An awareness of his/her own perspectives as on eof many perspectives, and one that has been shaped by contingent cultural factors
  
  

• Intercultural awareness

• The skill of communicating clearly and coherently

• Personal and interpersonal skills for the workplace and beyond

• The skills of reflection and critical thinking in personal, social and professional situations

• An understanding that many questions, issues or problems do not always have simple right or wrong answers

PPS is a course that meets the second semester of junior year and the first semester of senior year and supports other elements of the CP Core, particularly the Service Learning (SL), Language Development (LD) and the Reflective Project (RP).