Project Rationale for WAB: At WAB we have a holistic approach to teaching and learning that considers inclusive and innovative pathways towards student success. We have been developing and implementing a school-wide mentoring approach, more project-based and inquiry-driven approaches to teaching and learning, and personalised pathways. We are considering further options for personalised pathways, as well as alternative methods of assessment and sharing progress. Through engaging with this Learning Principle, we aim to ensure that ongoing developments are innovative, informed and aligned with our IB programmes.
2.1 Learners develop and use higher-order thinking skills in the creative, ethical, interpersonal, physical, technological, environmental, and entrepreneurial dimensions of learning.
2.2 Learners actively inquire into and document their development based on a profile and definition of success in creative, ethical, interpersonal, physical, technological, environmental, and entrepreneurial dimensions of learning.
2.3 Learners engage with mentors inside the school and in the local and global community to support their efforts to engage with the dimensions of learning in a way that creates local or global impact.
What existing opportunities are there for learners to engage in challenges that promote creative, ethical, interpersonal, physical, technological, and entrepreneurial development within the curricular program? How do we continue to strive for balance across these dimensions within the curricular program?
What existing opportunities are there for learners to explore the complexities and interdependence of contemporary issues using the dimensions as a lens?
How well do our curriculum, assessment practices, and teaching methods support learning goals that span cognitive, creative, moral, experiential, entrepreneurial, and social dimensions?
Considering Futures: Artificial Intelligence at WAB
At WAB we have been researching AI in education over the last couple of years, though this has become more prominent since the release of ChatGPT and the boom in Generative AI. Our resources and research are here:
Learners at WAB are consistently engaged in joyful and challenging learning experiences that enhance their agency and ability to take action on issues of global and local significance, including the development of future-ready competencies. Here are just a few examples...
Innovation, Entrepeneurship & Future-Reading Learning
Engaging in Global Issues, Service & Creativity
WAB has a school-wide mentoring model in which students are known and supported by dedicated mentor teachers, who help them make choices about their learning and development.