• Source: International Primary Curriculum

      • The International Primary Curriculum (IPC) is an independent programme of education for learners aged 5 to 11, cited by The SAGE Handbook of Research in International Education in 2015 as one of the three major international systems of education and one of two identified programmes specifically with international education objectives. The IPC forms part of a continuum of curricula, including the International Early Years Curriculum (IEYC) and the International Middle Years Curriculum (IMYC), and was identified as forming a key part of the rise in international education.


      History


      The curriculum was developed in the late 1990s by a group of international school educators and the support of Shell Oil's international education division and was launched as a standalone international curriculum in 2000.


      Curriculum design


      From the IPC Curriculum Guide (2020), the design of the IPC cites 7 foundations that present the curriculum as a holistic programme of education for 5-11 year-olds, separated into three 'mileposts' (5–6 years old, 7–9 years old, and 10–11 years old). The 7 foundations are listed as:

      Learner-focused Personal, International and Subject Learning Goals
      A Progressive Pedagogy
      A Process to Facilitate Learning for All
      Globally Competent Learners
      Knowledge, Skills and Understanding are taught, learned and assessed differently
      Connected Learning
      Assessment for Improving Learning


      Thematic units of learning


      The IPC is presented to schools through a number of thematic units of learning, which bring together the learning of multiple subjects associated with that theme over a 3, 6 or 9 week period. All the units follow the same Process to Facilitate Learning, which has the following stages:

      Entry Point
      Knowledge Harvest
      Explaining the Theme
      Research, Record and Reflect activities
      Exit Point


      Personal learning goals


      The 8 Personal Learning Goals of the IPC are to become:

      Adaptable
      (a) Communicator
      (a) Collaborator
      Empathetic
      Ethical
      Resilient
      Respectful
      (a) Thinker


      Subject learning goals


      The subjects included in the IPC subject learning goals are:

      Art
      Design technology and Innovation
      Geography
      Health and Wellbeing
      History
      ICT and Computing
      Language Arts
      Mathematics
      Music
      Physical education
      Science


      Use in schools around the world


      As of 2021, the IPC is used by over 1,000 international schools in over 90 countries.


      References

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