Over the past decade, the teachers at XLIS have been developing an authentic curriculum for our students. Through our six units of inquiry, the community learns about issues that are common to humanity. Authentic assessments give our students the opportunity to collaborate to propose solutions to these real-life problems. This curriculum allows for learning to take place in a transdisciplinary manner. Teachers carefully take subject knowledge and map it into units to allow students to use the knowledge and apply it.
In this section of our website, you will find the yearlong or horizontal planners for each grade level. Every class in the grade will be progressing through the units on the planner at the same pace. Teachers meet weekly to plan how they will plan, teach, and assess the elements of the plans. You will see the transdisciplinary theme and beneath it the elements of the PYP that the students will be studying. These elements include knowledge, concepts, approaches to learning and attributes of the IB learner profile.
In order to have a coherent vertically aligned curriculum, XLIS adopted their learning outcomes from the Ontario curriculum in Canada. This subject-specific knowledge has been mapped into each unit in order for our students to learn at a recognized international standard within the framework of the PYP. Students build upon prior knowledge each year to grow to new levels of understanding. This section of the website is included so your community has a very clear and in-depth opportunity to understand how the PYP works in our context.
