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This framework emphasizes the importance of holistic learning, intercultural awareness, and effective communication in building a well-rounded individual. It explores how best we learn, comprehend our surroundings, and contribute to communities. By addressing critical questions on interpersonal relationships, personal development, and environmental responsibility, this approach nurtures intrinsic motivation and promotes a global perspective. It encourages thoughtful decision-making regarding health and well-being while recognizing the role of human ingenuity in shaping our world.
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Approaches to Learning • How do I learn best? • How do I know? • How do I effectively communicate my understanding?
Community and Service • How do we live in relation to each other? • How can I help others? • How can I contribute to the community?
Health and Social Education • How do I think and act? • How am I changing? • How can I make wise decisions to look after the physical and mental well being of myself and others?
Environments • Where do I live? • What are our environments? • How are environments interconnected? • What resources do we have or need? • What are my responsibilities?
Human Ingenuity • Why and how do we create? • How has the human mind influenced the world? • What are the consequences of human thought and action?
Holistic Learning • All knowledge is interrelated. • The curriculum helps develop the “whole person” and create a “well rounded” individual. • Discovers relationships between areas of knowledge, the individual, communities, and the world. • Helps build intrinsic motivation, encourages deeper, lasting understanding, and facilitates transfer of learning.
Intercultural Awareness • Develops a knowledge and attitude about your culture, as well as the culture of others. • Helps acquire a global perspective.
Communication • The ability to understand and express ideas and information confidently and creatively in more than one language and in a variety of modes. • Language is integral to exploring and sustaining personal development, cultural identity and intercultural understanding, as well as being the major medium of social communication. • Develop verbal and nonverbal ways to share and acquire knowledge through language and other modes of thinking.