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. (ibo.org)

• Being open to different outlooks and world views
• Ability to understand different cultural contexts ands viewpoints
• Being able to take yourself away from the center of what is right and acceptable.
• Demonstrating respect for others
• Not to narrow minded
• Multilingual
• Knowing where you stand in relation to cultural relativism – being able to substantiate your cultural position
• Ability to work in diverse teams
• A declining sense of egocentricity
• Ability to adjust communication
• Adapts to different cultures
• The oneness of humanity
• Aware of own culture
• A critical examination of oneself and one’s traditions
• Concern and ability to think what it might be like to be in the shoes of a different person.
• Being globally engaged – a commitment to address humanity’s greatest 21^st century challenges
• Examine the ideas of others that challenge their own beliefs
• Go beyond mere tolerance and acceptance
• Enjoy the complexity of ambiguity
• Nonetheless reach rational conclusions

• Which attribute best exemplifies you?
• Which attribute would you like to be remembered for? Why?
• Pick the attribute that you want most to develop.
• Identify the learner profile attribute that is most developed in your school.
• Identify the learner profile attribute that is least developed in your school.