IB/PYP Attitudes

While IB students are expected to take an active role in their learning of necessary concepts, knowledge and skills, the IB PYP also focuses on the importance of instilling positive attitudes within its students. Through encouraging the development and application of the following positive attitudes, the IB PYP helps to create successful citizens of the world.

Listed below are the definitions of the IB Attitudes.  For more detailed information on these traits, refer to the IB Community Handbook.

We expect our students to develop and apply the following attitudes:

• Appreciation: appreciating the wonder and beauty of the world and its people
  
  
• Commitment: being committed to their learning, preserving and showing self-discipline and responsibility
  
  
• Confidence: feeling confident in their ability as learners, having the courage to take risks, applying what they have learned and making appropriate decisions
  
  
• Cooperation: cooperating, collaborating and leading or following as the situation demands
  
  
• Creativity: being creative and imaginative in their thinking and in their approach to problems and dilemmas
  
  
• Curiosity: being curious about the nature of learning and the world, its people and cultures
  
  
• Empathy: imaginatively projecting themselves into another's situation, in order to understand his/her thoughts, reasoning and emotions
  
  
• Enthusiasm: enjoying learning
  
  
• Independence: thinking and acting independently, making their own judgments based on reasoned principles and being able to defend their judgments
  
  
• Integrity: having integrity and a firm sense of fairness and honesty
  
  
• Respect: respecting themselves, others and the world around them
  
  
• Tolerance: feeling sensitivity towards differences and diversity in the world and being responsive to the needs of others