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GREAT LEARNING

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    "striving for EXCELLENCE by ENGAGING minds, EXCITING learners, acting ETHICALLY and showing EMPATHY"

    © 2014 by Ian Piper and Adam Sawyer.  All rights reserved.

    Proudly created with the staff of Danube International School Vienna and with feedback from the international school community

    Josef-Galle Gasse 2, 1020, Vienna, Austria

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    Our goal in publishing our GL model is to influence the discussion regarding what is a good school to the core idea of learning.  We give permission for individuals and educational institutions to use the information found on this website for non-commerical research and educational use only, provided that the source is and authors are clearly cited.  We do not give permission for the ideas and content created on this website to be used for commercial purposes.

    curriculum provider

    When schools select a particular external curriculum, this will either enable or prevent 'great learning' from occurring.  The curriculum provider may in some parts of the curriculum model support 'great learning' and not in other sections.

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    Danube is an IB world school that delivers the IB PYP, IB MYP and IB Diploma programmes.  An example, of the above statement would be that the IB Learner Profile supports positive Core Values as part of the personal standards for leaders, staff and students, which would enable ´Great Learning´.

     

    However, the IBOs recent decision to reduce the creative element of the IB Diploma Visual Arts programme appears at odds with promoting creativity within the learning environment and therefore not in alignment with the element creativity in the group in Personal Standards.

     

    Great Learning is therefore enabled when the curriculum provider is aligned with the various elements of the GL model.

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