Inquiry-Based Learning (Real World Applications)
Stowers Magnet School of International Studies offers students a gateway into the future. Stowers’ programme offers a rigorous and challenging curriculum that promotes international-mindedness and provides students with the opportunities for learning about issues that have local, national, and global significance based upon the International Baccalaureate Organization.
Classrooms reflect the diversity and ten learner profiles of the International Baccalaureate Organization:
• Communicators
• Principled
• Open-Minded
• Caring
• Risk-Takers
• Balance
• Inquirers
• Knowledgeable
• Thinkers and
• Reflective.
Units of study made up of the California State Standards and under the umbrella of the six themes:
• Who We Are
• Where We Are In Place and Time
• How We Organize Ourselves
• How We Express Ourselves
• How The World Works and
• Sharing the Planet
allows students to become international citizens by learning a foreign language, connecting with others around the world through video projects, online collaboration, research explorations and culminating activities of global significance. In this way, students learn to become leaders, activists, and creators of change.
In this way our students become critical and compassionate thinkers and informed participants in local and world affairs.
Stowers Magnet School of International Studies is a place where students appreciate what is similar and different in others, and where they learn to become students of the world.
Unique Features of Stowers Magnet School of
International Studies
- All students learn Spanish.
- Worldwide communications such as email, video conferencing, video broadcasting and joint projects with other countries.
- Inquiry-based International curriculum with transdisciplinary instruction.
- Multimedia lab with 32 computers with printers, scanners, web cams and a smart board.
- Projectors in every classroom.
- School wide "Pennies for Peace" community service project.
- Theme of the month where our school focuses on a particular country learning the language and culture of the featured country.
- International communications currently established with Hands Across the Planet.
- International Festival, a joint community and school project featuring visual and performing arts, foods, fashion and music from around the world.
- eachers specially trained in the Primary Years Programme.
- Specializing in Seminar, based on the Paideia method, a purposeful talk program that creates engaged independent thinking and develops critical thinking and problem solving.
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