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In preschool we do stories with the children to make them understand different profiles such as caring, risk takers and so on. During the inquiry cycle different types of activities are planned to develop profiles for example during the transdisciplinary theme sharing the planet, every child adopt a toy animal as pet and have to take care of their pets, developing caring profile in them.

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To promote intercultural understanding and respect we celebrate different national and international festivals and important days such as French day, hindi diwas and many more.
Cultural day is celebrated when children come dressed in different national and international attires and represent different cultures. Parents of expat children are invited as guest speakers to share about their culture and traditions with the children.

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The learners are active, compassionate for the beginning of the inquiry cycle. They are put into challenging situation, where they sort out their own problems are become more open minded to explore, think out of box and enjoy learning process throughout the inquiry.
The action wall and reflections given by the students, helps in assessing their learning.

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The students are encouraged to open minded and respect others point of view as well. the essential agreement charts helps a lot in this where all the learners give their opinion and come on a consensus, where they respect each others opinion.
Group tasks are given to them where each and every member of the group is involved in the learning process and every group member is open to each others view point.
We encourage collaborative approach of learning, where students work in collaboration with each other and overcome all the issues.

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By making the learners explore more concepts, ideas and issues that have a local and global significance. In doing so, they acquire in-depth knowledge and develop understanding across a broad and balanced range of disciplines. We must help them to develop a personal commitment to service, and act to make a positive difference to the lives of others and to the environment.
AYUSH

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We at FirstSteps celebrate diverse cultures and various National and International festivals where the learners are given opportunities to appreciate their own as well as the other's culture. They are taught to be open minded towards others' perspectives, values and traditions.
AYUSH

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Active, Compassionate and Life-long Learners

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Active, Compassionate and Life-long Learners

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We give learners a chance to exercise initiative in applying thinking skills critically and creatively to recognize and approach complex problems, and make reasoned, ethical decisions. They develop their natural curiosity by applying skills necessary to conduct an inquiry and research and show independence in learning.
AYUSH

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Our school's mission statement/pledge, essential agreements, group tasks, think pair and share activity helps the learners to understand and being open to others point of view (perspectives) where they are accustomed to seeking and evaluating a range of point of views and are willing to grow from the experience.
AYUSH

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Through free play and acknowledging the children when they display the profiles inquiring, knowledgeable and caring. There are a lot of examples that come us in class during play and classroom discussions. Through research we come up with stories we can share and children are then able to reflect upon the moral of the story. Noticing children's' behaviour and acknowledging it considering these profiles.
N Verma

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We celebrate all festivals in school and make everyone participate. Positive reinforcement of behaviour for learning. Children at this age copy others. As teachers and parents we have to be role models.

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Children in the early year like to be appreciated. When they feel appreciated, they repeat their positive behaviour. Their questions and curiosity is nurtured. We try to encourage them, redirect them when they are distracted. Experiences which are relevant to them, e.g. comparing chocolate and spinach decomposition and connecting it to how our body breaks food down. Children would be able to connect what they learn to real life scenarios. Appreciating them when they make a good life choice or show compassion or empathy towards someone else.

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Making experiences available to the learners that they normally would not experience. e.g. Making our own glue (and making it sound super cool!) Being perceptivethe issues that might come up in class due to family and social conditioning and addressing any issues in a subtle manner.

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For our young learners, we do poems and stories to make them understand the different profiles like caring, knowledgeable, inquirer, open-minded and so on. During this period of time, kids are at home and they were able to  develop the profile 'caring' by doing their work on their own and taking care of small things. They also shared that they are risk takers as they are facing  this hard time with courage.
Narinder Kaur

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as a dance facilitator i strive to build up different profiles during my lessons by encouraging the learners to think independently and in collaboration through different activities. They become caring by helping each other in different ways. During our interactive sessions they become knowledgeable . Whenever we strive to learn any difficult dance form they become risk takers and open minded and while exploring further they become inquirer.
jyotsna

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We here at our institute, organize various activities wherein learners are taught about different cultures. For instance, dressing themselves up as representatives of different states and introducing themselves in their respective languages. Different languages like Hindi, German, french, etc are also taught.
Narinder Kaur

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Students at FirstSteps learn about diverse cultures in a way that recognize commonalities and differences , create connections with each other and cultivate mutual respect through various national and international celebrations , which is increasingly important in today's world making them global leaders in future.
jyotsna

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We give our learners a chance to apply their thinking skills creatively while conducting an inquiry. Their curiosity level rises while applying different skills like research, communication skills. Learners are eager to share their knowledge and experiences.
Narinder Kaur

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Learners are always given opportunities to utilize their thinking skills in artistic manner and learn new things in innovative ways .During this learning process they become enthusiastic towards acquiring knowledge and show their creativity and curiosity through different activities.
jyotsna

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we encourage the learners to become open minded  when they have open interaction with students with diverse backgrounds making them understand and respect their view point and perspectives. Different tasks are assigned to  bring them out of their comfort zone where the learners makes effort to add something new in their regular approach of learning which gives them a chance to grow more.
jyotsna

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Around the school and in our classrooms you can see a cluster of words which describe our personality attributes which are called learner profiles .  In kindergarten we narrate stories   even through play we make our kids to recognize the Learner's profiles . We even give our kids an opportunity to express their understanding about learner's profiles through art and craft .

Shivali

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We can help the students nurture an inquisitive mind by prompting them with a lot of questioning related to the concepts being covered. Further, when the students start building a personal connect with their inquiries they automatically gain a lot of knowledge. The caring trait of the learners can be developed with the help of related concepts driving the inquiry.

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Inter-cultural understanding and respect will only come as a result of connecting to our human commonalities. Our children would respect the culture of others only when they first value their owns. They slowly have to be apprised about the beauty of diversity of cultures and religions across the world. By the time of the culmination of their PYP, they would build a strong connection and respect towards the needs of others and this will definitely lead to a better and a more peaceful world.

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The best way to learn is to 'learn by doing'. Unless the children get a hands on experience on the concepts they need to understand, we would not be able to involve them in the process of inquiry as active and life long learners. Observations, quick on-going assessments and monitoring the actions taken by the students can act as helpful tools to assess their compassion towards their learning.

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To start from the scratch, we first have to promote healthy discussions and relationships at the peer levels in the classroom. Once they have a sense of belonging with each other they enter the forming stage of the group development and start displaying traits of an open minded and caring individual. We can plan our activities and tasks around people who are role models for displaying the IB learner profile traits, starting with the facilitator himself/herself. Further, the students should be involved in thought provoking tasks where there actions would automatically reflect the development of the IB learner profiles.

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The school library is imbibing the learners profiles in students through the selection of relevant and appropriate library resources. The school library also encourages its learners to strongly use the information resources in teaching and practices.
Moreover the essential agreements of the library are also encouraging the learners to be inquirers, knowledgeable, communicators etc.
By reading library books the learners are becoming knowledgeable. By sharing the gained knowledge they are becoming communicators and by doing research work with the help of library resources they are becoming thinkers. The learners try different genre of literature available in the library hence  they are becoming risktakers.
Anupama

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Learner's are always keen to learn new things from their early age as they  always keep on asking questions how ,why ,what  so , we give them opportunities to enhance their skills. We also encourage our  learner's to become  active , compassionate and a lifelong learner's . We prepare them for global challenges through inquiry, action and reflections.

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Intercultural understanding enables the learner's to develop an awareness of different cultural perspectives and appreciate the commonality to human experience . We aim to develop inquiring ,knowledgeable and caring young people who helps to create a better world through intercultural understanding and respect .

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The school library is fostering intercultural understanding  through its multicultural collection by reading such resources learners become aware of other cultures.
Anupama

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Hands on activities, small group engagements, problem-solving and reflecting radiates active learning in my classroom....encouraging students to achieve realistic goals . active learning happens when we let students choose paper and project topics that interest them so they could show their understanding fruitfully.

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When we give opportunity to children to collaborate in planning, everything turns up meaningful to them. They think critically and take ownership of their learning thus developing attributes of LP's.

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It is important for a learner to have a sense of self-awareness, which forms the basis for intercultural respect and affinity.

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Creating opportunities to share ideas, curiosity to hear what others think, showing willingness to listen and respond help young sparks in my classroom to be open-minded and caring. "Buddy Study Time"- learning from buddies and showing eagerness to learn... clearly reflects open-minded attributes.

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School library is a place where learners try to find out solution to their queries.They ask questions and learn to find out answers on their own.The learners select, analyze and use the relevant information. Hence school library is encouraging the learners to be active, compassionate and life long learners. 

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School library is a place where learners try to find out solution to their queries.They ask questions and learn to find out answers on their own.The learners select, analyze and use the relevant information. Hence school library is encouraging the learners to be active, compassionate and life long learners. 

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Anupama

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For us developing attributes of learning profile is a part of everything around us .We can't imbibe in or assess these attributes of one's personality  in isolation.As an IB community we proudly represent ourselves as International minded people who are great thinkers,confident communicators,risk takers while doing experiments with our inquiries and reflections,show empathy towards others and our environment,principled in our approach and represent ourselves as knowledgeable individuals by reflecting creatively.

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We enjoy an open minded environment in our school,where we celebrate different festivals of different cultures and learn different languages.Our inquiries promote international mindedness and provide opportunities to reflect on human commonalities based on diversity and multiple perspective The intercultural understanding and respect can be well judged through the knowledge,skills and values acquired by our learners

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IB provides the best learning criteria to enhance student learning with the profile of inquiry, knowledgeable and caring we can give children a platform to indulge in real life issues to think out of the box and care for the planet with diverse approach, we do this by having an group, peer to peer collaboration using futuristic technology and exploring world at its best.

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Active learning involves teachers as facilitators and students as active participants through out the learning process i.e planning-  execution-assessing-reviewing-re-planning with the help of voice choice ownership(agency).Usage of different tools and strategies for learning and teaching also prompts learners to become active learners.The students learn through their own experience and by relating their learning with real life and they celebrate their learning by presenting it in the form of role plays,presentations,art,music and dance forms to make their learning a life long experience

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We can promote the ideal of creating “a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect” by developing the diverse transcend skills and pedagogy in a learner through the means of all learners profiles. For example

Open-minded

Caring

Risk-takers

Balanced

Reflective etc. with multiple perspective and coherency of the human condition globally.

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we immerse our students in to encourage them to “become active, compassionate and lifelong learners” by developing constructivism, endeavoring them to explore more, making them learn through self discovery of information, motivating them for self critical analysis.
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nurtured by assessment sheets, Challenging them with the real life issues, assessing them through their creativity and learners profile in transcend subject areas.

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Through our curriculum and open environment ,we believe in creating learners who is willing to listen and consider the ideas and positions of others.Our learners approach life differently.They are eager to learn and willing to be wrong to improve their perception or to make better decision.They have a positive and caring outlook towards and people and the world around them.

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we encourage our students to be caring and open-minded, to “understand that people with their
differences can also be right” by giving them exposure to the world itself using their learners profile, making them explore the challenges of real life issues and reflect the situations of  human condition globally.
--What experiences do we immerse them in?
We can give them on going situations, working local to global and reflect on the same and giving them decision making power for better perspective.
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we introduce them to?
We can just let them explore the world for open planning and bringing self curiosity in them.

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To develop knowledgeable and caring young children, a teacher should know about a student’s background, strengths, knowledge, and learning style, so that he or she can target instruction toward the child’s learning needs in a better way. For this learner profiles are created that helps teachers learn more about their students. We use learner profiles to build effective relationships, develop an inclusive classroom, and understand what technology or differentiations may be needed for individual students.

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For global awareness, we create opportunities for students to explore their role and their understanding of global issues outside the classroom context. This happens in the form of trips, celebrations like Hindi Divas, Chinese New Year, French Day etc  that promote leadership and an international consciousness. They also become academically honest towards their work, learn to respect their own culture as well as others and start appreciating others perspectives too.

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Children learn best when they are engaged in exploring the world around them and develop a sense of curiosity that leads to learning. Teachers as facilitators should be actively engaged in activities with children by communicating and scaffolding their learning which encourages them to explore, experiment and learn more. Active learning can be promoted by giving hands on activities, creating activities that develop children's thinking skills, involving them in creating their profiles, central ideas, voice choice in designing the rubrics for assessments.

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Giving oppurtunities to young learners to present their point of view and to be patient listeners. By planning activities which involves everybody's point of view .The best example here I can quote is when children do group tasks where they work together in sync with other group members perspectives also which encourages them to be open minded to accept others point of view, hence coming out with excellent results.

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In arts class  through engaging with and creating artworks learners are encouraged to reconsider familiar concepts and think about issues of cultural and identity. The IB learner’s profile is integral to learning and teaching arts  because it represents the quality of effective learners and internationally minded students.
Gurpreet kaur

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Learner’s are exposed to wide range of opportunities and means to respond to their life experiences and engage with historical, social and cultural perspectives through various mediums of arts. They are encouraged to explore and construct a sense of self and develop understanding of the world around them.

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Through various art activities we promote attitudes such as empathy and appreciation and skills such as analysis, that helps them to see the uniqueness of each person as well as explore the commonalities that connect us.

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We empower learner’s to take intellectual risks. They are encouraged to reflect on and evaluate their own learning and the learning of others. They are highly motivated to give careful consideration to their learning and to become self critical. This helps them to become open minded towards receiving and sharing the thoughts and views of other’s.

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Inter -cultural understanding and respect can be developed in children when they are apprised about the significance of each festival by sharing the story of celebrating the same . And also when each and every festival is celebrated with the same enthusiasm and passion as one own's culture and festival. The first step towards this is making them understand ,believe ,respect and celebrate their own life.

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I feel all the learner profiles are already present in the learner's life, it just needs the right calling and tapping to  bring it forth and the teacher's to discover by conducting and engaging them in different activities.

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Learning is a two way process. One what you see and the other what you hear. More impactful is definitely the latter. As they say one leads by example so as a teacher when one listens and appreciate efforts of  the children the same spirit is imbibed by the children when they listen and appreciate each other.

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Throughout our inquiries we try to make connections with specific attributes listed in our classroom called the IB Learner Profiles.We handhold the young kindergartners and help them relate to the specific profiles by quoting real life examples and situations.They also identify these profiles with learning by doing / experiential learning.Through art, music, dance, story telling or any other circle time activity,the facilitator always leads by example,since the profiles are meant to be developed by the IB community.When these young children hear their teachers leading by example,they are quick and excited to follow.

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We in order to live the IB Mission, promote intercultural understanding and respect, not as an alternative to a sense of cultural and national identity, but as an essential part of life in the 21st century.Celebrations of various national and international festivals along with discussions and activities around global issues help to strentghten our respect and views towards them.At Kindergarten we also have an inquiry around celebrations,where we help our young learners to respect and be open minded to the cellebrations of the various cultures across the globe.

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When learners are not confined to 'what to learn' and are given the ownership of their learning they develop into more curious inquirers who delve deeper into the inquiry to explore more.This in turn generates the how,why,what if, questions which immediately find their direstion on the 'I Wonder' Walls in the classroom and lead to fruitful discussions in the class arousing more interest and learning in the inquiry and turning them into life long learners

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While framing the essential agreements of our classroom we always stress on the thumb rule of being good listeners,which also does the spade work of being more tolerant and patient towards others thoughts,ideas and learning.We also encourage open collaborative discussions where one student's thought or idea is used as a building block by other students to express their opinions.Also as a facilitator we never explicitely tell any student that their idea is wrong but always make them look at it from a more broader perspective to comprehend better and be more open minded to a different perspective.

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Inquiry based learning at school helps students to find out about things on their own. It propels their natural curiosity in the write direction. I feel whatever has been shared with the learners in terms of knowledge through the inquiry culminates into some concrete action at the end and that is the evidence of their being caring , knowledgeable and inquirers.

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When the child understands and develops profiles like principled, thinker, caring , they understand the interconnections of the entire world. The POI gives opportunities to think in these directions , The school culture includes events which are promoting and celebrating varied cultures.

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The students are encouraged to know about the current world events by providing them newspapers and thereafter discussing the hot events.The students awareness leads them to think about world issues and see what others are doing about them. They are prompted to take action about the various issues and contribute towards community support. There eagerness and motivation to take action through participation, advocacy tells us about the level of
development of compassion.

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Our school promotes collaboration at all levels . This helps the students to understand that not only our opinion is important , the opinions of others matter too. They learn by watching that their principal, coordinators and facilitators also collaborate and discuss the events of the classroom as we keep referring to what other teachers are doing , or plan combined activities etc .Many activities
designed within or outside the curriculum promote team work and cooperation.

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To develop profiles such as inquirer,knowledgeable and caring most of the times we introduce our inquiry with play or classroom discussions/Circle time. We try to link the profiles to real life experiences which encourage them to ask questions. During our whole inquiry cycle we revolve around ownership and choice which in turn helps them to build knowledge with interest. Classroom environment and social interactions( could be a tasks during inquiry) helps them to build caring attitude towards themselves and others.
Pratibha

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In early years we introduce them different festivals and share cultural facts related to our diverse world. They recognize and learn to appreciate differences and commonalities, make connections and develop a sense of respect for other cultures.
Pratibha

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We try to ignite the light of knowledge with interesting and age appropriate activities. Students are provided with handful of opportunities so that they can actively communicate and participate with compassion.
Free play time is the best time when we can assess their area of compassion.What ever knowledge is linked with real life experiences and interest will definitely help them to make life long learners.Students are given various activities and out of them they can display their learning according to their interest areas.
Pratibha

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During our inquiry cycle we try to develop their intrapersonal and interpersonal skills.They perform tasks collaboratively through which they learn to appreciate and show respect towards others opinions. They also explore themselves and learn to show integrity towards their own thoughts. Guest visits and other outdoor visits also help them to be open-minded.
Pratibha

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The facilitators try to role model learner profiles, The learner profiles exits in the school ethos. The inquiry helps the learning to take place to build on the profiles through the curriculum. Apart from that the activities like visits, talks, experiments and community projects also help the students imbibe the learner profiles.

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The school provides various opportunities to students to celebrate in international days and festivals. The school community has international students who share information about their culture with peers.
Through the inquiry connections are made to interconnected commonalities.

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As a part of the inquiry students are exposed to real life issues and over the inquiry cycle resolve to take some action. As a result through it they get sensitized towards issues facing the society like child and drug abuse, pollution etc. The students usually come up with some action with a better understanding of their role in creating a better world. Like a campaign against fire crackers, street play to promote education in slums, etc.
These action reflect their increased awareness and empathy.

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The collaboration at every level is an example that various perspectives are involved in teaching learning. Students through their extensive research and discussions are exposed to commonalities and differences. The inquiry is planned in such a way that there are open-ended questions that gives a scope of varied range of responses from the learners. Thus in the classroom an atmosphere of different  opinions prevails.  The learners learn to accept the difference of perspectives. The visits and guest lectures expose them to different view points as well. It inculcates open-mindedness in them.

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The school develops and promotes  the IB learner profile across the school community through various channels like Collaborative planning and reflection addresses the IB learner profiles.  The written curriculum fosters development of the IB learner profiles.  Teaching and learning  further develops the IB learner profile  through implementation in the form of class and corridor display boards, teachers as role models imbibing it through their actions as well sharing it as experiences after each assigned task, e.g I was a risk taker when I decided to do this experiment with you all etc

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Encouraging staff to build their International mindedness through professional development activities like encouraging multilingualism ,School-led events and extra-curricular activities, such as, celebrating diverse cultures, overseas trips and exchanges, participating in activities, such as, Model United Nations (MUN) • Awareness of the school culture via the hidden curriculum, promoting diversity and difference, and developing and promoting relationships and engagement with local and national communities leading to global citizens through respect, empathy and shared goals for future

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For fostering ACTIVE Learning, we as facilitators need to be more explicit in how thinking is articulated as a curriculum objective; (2) the need for thinking strategies to be made more explicit, more visible to children, to imbibe as action orientated learning. Demonstrations of deeper learning in responsible behavior through responsible action; a manifestation in practice of the other essential elements. FOR EXAMPLE-Use role-play to create wonder-filled short stories that will foster students’ curiosity and take them to imaginary worlds where they can actively engage their senses. Also
Co-construct learning experiences with your students that are developmentally appropriate, as these will boost their dispositions for learning and contribute to mastery of vital life skills such as empathy and open-mindedness.

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Foremost,there should be clear school ethos exemplified in the level of care and respect shown by the school to its staff, from the school toward its students, and that expected to exist between students thus  leading to  local community beyond the school walls.
Eventually this will happen in the form of  educational contexts that put students and teachers from different cultures and belief systems together into a mixing bowl of shared experiences of being acknowledging that ‘other people, with their differences, can also be right

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IB curriculum gives broader perspective to respect the people from different cultures. They get an opportunity to explore the different cultures in the community through six units under trans-disciplinary themes. The celebration of different festivals develops the inter-
cultural understanding and respect which will eventually lead to lay the foundation of a more peaceful world and a better place to live.

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A teacher has to model the attributes which he/she wants to see in his/her learners. Providing them with appropriate opportunities and encouraging them to be confident to present their comprehension will definitely help the young learners to be active, compassionate and lifelong learners.

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Group tasks, listening to other presentations, peer assessments etc. gives the learners a pragmatic view on how to respect divergent views, as there is always the other side of the coin. Various learning engagements, excursions and developing Research skills helps them to be open-minded.