CIS is an IB PYP Candidate School! | CIS正式成为IB PYP候选学校！

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CIS is very proud to announce that we are now a candidate school* for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Program and pursuing authorization as an IB World School. Congratulations, CIS!

Just like Canadian (AAIS) schools, IB World Schools share a common philosophy—a commitment to improve the teaching and learning of a diverse and inclusive community of students by delivering challenging, high quality programs of international education that share a powerful vision.

CIS非常自豪地宣布，我们正式成为国际文凭小学项目（IB PYP）的候选学校*，并正在申请成为IB世界学校！

和加拿大艾伯塔认证国际学校一样，IB世界学校有着共同的理念——通过提供愿景宏大、具有挑战性的、高质量的国际教育项目，为多样且兼容并包的学生群体提升教育和学习体验。

IB PYP Framework and Canadian (Alberta) Curriculum: An Excellent Partnership

IB PYP框架与加拿大艾伯塔课程体系的完美结合

CIS has always been synonymous with academic excellence. As a proud Alberta Accredited International School (AAIS), we are fully committed to Canadian education and to pursuing our world-class Alberta curriculum, as we know that it is a world-class system that opens pathways to top universities and careers around the world. When we made a decision to pursue IB PYP (for ages 3-12) accreditation, we knew that they would be a good fit, as IB is a framework that can fit over and into the Canadian curriculum very seamlessly. There are several IB + AAIS schools across Canada. Our sister school in Macao (The International School of Macao) is an IB + AAIS school. The Canadian International Education Organisation (CIEO) also has a number of IB accredited schools in our China network, making us very familiar with the IB Organisation and its programs.

CIS一直是学术卓越的代名词。作为加拿大艾伯塔认证国际学校（AAIS），我们非常自豪，并投身于加拿大教育，追求世界级的艾伯塔课程，因为我们知道，这个世界级的教学系统能够打开世界各地的顶尖大学和职业生涯的大门。当我们决定申请 IB PYP（3-12岁）认证时，我们深知它们将成为完美的结合。IB是一个教学框架，可以无缝融入加拿大的课程体系中。加拿大本土也有 IB+AAIS 的学校。CIS 在澳门的姊妹学校（澳门国际学校）也是一所 IB+AAIS 学校。加拿大国际教育机构（CIEO）在中国的成员学校中也有通过IB认证的学校。可以说，我们对 IB 组织及其课程非常熟悉。

Alberta and IB Framework of Teaching and Learning

加拿大艾伯塔课程与IB的教学框架

Enriching our Learning and Teaching Community with Yet Another Prestigious Accreditation

又一国际知名认证，丰富国际社区学习和教学资质

We are very excited to be pursuing yet another world-renowned accreditation, one that will truly enrich our community and add a feather in our academic cap. The IB PYP framework, just like the Canadian (Alberta) curriculum, delivers universal academic excellence, offering a dynamic learning environment focused on inquiry and agency, in an effort to create lifelong, international-minded learners – learners who value engaging with both local and global communities. When we examined both the Canadian curriculum and the IB framework, we realized both are very closely aligned. The IB philosophy and learner profile attributes match the Alberta core competencies and our CIS mission, vision, core values and philosophy, and the similarities are very apparent. Our subject areas are also very closely aligned to each other. This will ensure a seamless merger of both educational philosophies (the fusion of a framework and a curriculum), ensuring that CIS is on track to deliver an even better educational experience to learners aged 3-12.  

我们很高兴申请又一个世界知名的资质认证，为社区添砖加瓦，丰富学术资质。IB PYP 框架正如加拿大艾伯塔省课程，追求学术卓越，致力于打造充满活力的学习环境，重视探究式学习和体验学习，培养具有国际视野的终身学习者——能够融入当地和全球社区的学习者。当我们考察加拿大课程和 IB 框架时，我们意识到两者非常接近。IB 的理念和学习者的特点，艾伯塔体系看重的核心竞争力，和CIS的教育使命、愿景、核心价值观和理念相匹配，而且相似之处非常明显，所有的学科领域联系也非常紧密。因此，两种教育理念（框架和课程体系）能够无缝融合，确保CIS为3-12岁的学习者提供更优质的教育体验。

The Alberta Core Competencies and IB Learner Profiles are closely alligned

加拿大艾伯塔课程的8大核心能力与IB学习者特质非常相似

Our IB PYP Accreditation Journey Thus Far

我们的 IB PYP 申请进度

Our CIS School leaders have already began attending IB professional development workshops to gain a better sense of the philosophy, and to engage with the global IB community.

Our Primary teachers have been in a training session, and have begun to shifting progressively towards aligning our Canadian curriculum with the five essential elements of the PYP framework: Concepts, skills, knowledge, attitudes, and action. Merging these five elements of the framework with the learning outcomes of the Alberta curriculum will ensure that teachers can help students construct their own understandings of the world and how their actions can shape both the communities they live in and others around the world.

And, most notably, students, as they start to learn about the PYP in action, will soon begin to shape their own teaching and learning – through developing their own questions that then informed planning for learning across all subject areas.

CIS学校领导已经开始参加IB专业发展研讨会，提升理念，并参与到全球IB社区中去。

小学部教师已经参加了培训课程，并开始逐步融合加拿大课程与 PYP 框架的五个基本要素：概念、技能、知识、态度和行动。这五个要素与艾伯塔省课程的学习目标相结合，确保教师团队能够帮助学生构建对世界的理解，以及他们的行为如何塑造他们身边的社区和整个世界。

最值得一提的是，随着学生们开始在实践中学习 PYP，他们很快可以形成自己的教与学的良性循环——通过提出问题，在所有学科领域内，进行学习规划和知识吸收。

The Model of IB Transdisciplinary Learning

IB 跨学科学习模型

A Rewarding Journey of Growth

一趟收获满满的旅途

The next few weeks at CIS will be a journey of growth, open-mindedness and determination, and one that will strengthen our learning community. Our classrooms already breathe a sense of intellectual freedom, where each learner is unique and the driver of their own learning. Now, over the next few months as we pursue accreditation, we will delve deeper into ensuring that we meet both our Canadian curriculum learning outcomes and adhere to the IB framework and its commitment to inquiry and transdisciplinary learning. The journey will be immensely challenging but also very rewarding. It will further transform the whole CIS community into lifelong learners.

With a growth mindset at the core of what we do, we know that is only the beginning of a fantastic journey for CIS! Go Grizzlies! #LearnTodayLeadTomorrow

接下来的几周，CIS 将踏上一趟成长、开放和坚定的旅程，一趟让我们的学习社区更加强大的旅程。教室里充满活跃的学术气息，每个学生都是独一无二的，是自己学习的驱动者。在接下来的几个月里，随着申请进度的推进，我们将更加深入探索，确保教学工作既达成加拿大课程学习目标，也符合 IB 框架及其对探究和跨学科学习的要求。这是一段荆棘丛生，同时鲜花遍野的旅程。它将令 CIS 教学社区更上一层楼，推动我们成为终身学习者。

我们所做的一切，都源于不断成长的学习心态，我们深知，这段美好的旅程才刚刚开始。加油灰熊队！#今朝学子未来领袖

* Only schools authorized by the IB Organization can offer any of its four academic programs: the Primary Years Program (PYP), the Middle Years Program (MYP), the Diploma Program (DP), or the Career-related Program (CP). Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted. For further information about the IB and its programs, visit http://www.ibo.org.

*只有经IB组织授权的学校可以提供其四个学术项目中的任何一个：小学课程(PYP)，中学课程(MYP)，文凭课程(DP)，或职业课程(CP)。候选人身份并不等同于授权。有关IB及其项目的更多信息，请访问http://www.ibo.org。

 Want to learn more about our Canadian curriculum and our IB PYP Framework? Join our Virtual Open Day online this Saturday on April 16.

想了解加拿大艾伯塔省课程体系和IB小学课程框架的更多内容？欢迎参加本周六（4月16日）的线上开放日。