Be an IB Parent :
What can you do at home?
The IB Learner Profile's goal is to build life-long learners and global citizens, while still challenging students to be the best that they can be at home, school and in life.
As an IB Parent, you can support the IB Mission through utilizing the Learner Profile at home.
Ways to help develop the Learner Profile at home:
Communicator:
Principled:
Open-Minded:
Reflective:
Inquirer:
Risk-Taker:
Thinker:
Balanced:
Caring:
Knowledgeable:
As an IB Parent, you can support the IB Mission through utilizing the Learner Profile at home.
Ways to help develop the Learner Profile at home:
Communicator:
- Encouraging your student to stay in touch with relatives and friends by writing letters, calling or sending emails.
- When working with your child at home, encourage them to explain their reasoning/responses orally.
- Ask your child higher-order questions and start discussions with them.
Principled:
- When playing games at home, don't change the rules/let your student win. Teach them about being principled with winning/losing.
- Encourage your student to play team games. Converse with them about the qualities of a good team player.
Open-Minded:
- Encourage your student to try new things all the time.
- Introduce and expose your student to new traditions, celebrations, and cultures.
Reflective:
- Spend time with your student reviewing their report card/assignments. Encourage them to think about and discuss their thoughts about their own strengths and weaknesses.
- Consider setting and working towards academic and non-academic goals based on their own strengths and weaknesses they have identified.
Inquirer:
- Model being and inquirer when you do not know the answer to a problem/question and seek solutions with your student.
- Encourage their interests and seeking out information and books on those topics.
Risk-Taker:
- Help them understand that being a risk-taker involves standing up for what they believe in.
- When goal setting, have them consider things that make them nervous. Ask them to consider realistic expectations and goals they can work towards.
Thinker:
- Encourage your student to think out solutions to problems independently. Pose real-life problems to them as well.
- Ask your student questions while they are working, have them tell you their thinking process.
Balanced:
- Discuss food groups with your student. During mealtime, have discussions about the meal and let them decide if it is balanced.
- During down time at home, monitor their activities. Encourage them to spend time doing a wide range of activities.
Caring:
- Discuss with your student ways they can help the environment and community.
- Model caring behavior at home and in public.
- When reading to or with your student, discuss how the characters acted. Discuss what other choices the characters could have made.
Knowledgeable:
- Discuss appropriate current events and news at home with your student.
- Foster your students interests. Encourage them to explore their interests and encourage the research and interest in new topics.
- Discuss your students learning in school. Engage in meaningful conversations about the importance and how it impacts them.