IB Primary Years Programme - Learner Profile

Learner Profile

As mentioned above there are 10 attributes in the IB learner profile. PYP documents describe the PYP student profile as "the common ground on which PYP schools stand, the essence of what they are about" (Making the PYP Happen, 2000). Through the programmes the students should develop these traits. These traits originated in the PYP where it was called the "PYP student profle," but since the practitioners thought learning shouldn't come to a stop at age 11, they carried these attributes through to the completion of the diploma programmes; therefore, it's now called the "IB Learner Profile." The learner profile illustrates the qualities of an internationally minded person and a life long learner.

From the International Baccalaureate Organization 2007: Participant Workbook, Introduction to the PYP, the following is what IB learners strive to be:

• Inquirers: Students develop their natural curiosity.
• Knowledgeable: Students explore concepts, ideas and issues that have both a local and global significance.
• Thinkers: Students think critically to engage themselves in figuring out complex problems.
• Communicators: Students express themselves and information through a variety of modes of communication.
• Principled: Students act honestly and with a strong sense of fairness, justice, and respect for the dignity of the individual, groups, and communities.
• Open-minded: Students appreciate their own cultures and personal histories and are open to the perspectives, values and traditions of other individuals and communities.
• Caring: Students show respect and compassion towards the needs of others.
• Risk-takers: Students approach unfamiliar situations with courage, as well as defend their beliefs.
• Balanced: Students understand the importance of intellectual, physical and emotional balance to achieve personal well-being.
• Reflective: Students give consideration to their own learning and experience.