Better understanding of the IB program and its advantages.

A strategic plan for its implementation.

Tools to transmit the advantages and beliefs to my professors.

Involve the student's natural curiosity.

Students are actively engaged in their own learning: comprehension, analysis, interpretation and contextualization.

Students are encouraged to find their own ways into texts and connections to prior knowledge.

Organizing and crossing subject areas.

From "Big ideas" to complex more specific ideas and concepts.

Students can create a theoretical umbrella of the course as a whole.

Students make sense of the world through their life experiences, communities, or global concerns.

Connecting texts with contexts of their production and consumption.

Helps students see other perspectives and contexts in real life; introducing them to familiar and unfamiliar situations through the content.

Collaboration is a key element of the Diploma Programme.

Finding meaning in a text is a collaborative process: individual, past readings, and external experiences.

Focused on differentiation for accommodating different ways in which students learn.

Important link between differentiation and effective and purposeful planning.

Designing lessons and activities that affirm identity and build self-esteem, value prior knowledge, and scaffold extend learning.

Formal, criterion-related summative assessments assess overall learning in the *Diploma Programme*.

Summative and formative: used for different levels of learning.

Process-oriented rather than product-oriented assessments.

Peer-assessed or self-assessed activities to reflect on their own learning and performance.

Students come up with the answers to questions framed and shaped by teacher.

Students formulate their own hypothesis about a text.

Encourage students to make decisions on their own.

Help to form a good relationship between students with students and with adults.

Every aspect of the studies of language and literature is related to the development of these skils.

Understanding the perspectives of others, forming good relationships, and gaining an awareness of how one’s words and actions have an impact on other people are at the heart of IB's profile attributes.

Organizational skills

Goal setting

Time management

Affective skills

• state of mind

• motivation

• resilence

Learning to use resources and to put those skills into practice in an academically honest way.

Formulating focused and intriguing research questions, appraising sources, and recording, evaluating and synthesizing information.