The document discusses the International School Curriculum Project (ISCP) which aims to synthesize best practices from different national education systems and international schools to create an engaging, transdisciplinary curriculum for students aged 3 to 12. It views curriculum as consisting of the written, taught and learned components. The ISCP's approach focuses on inquiry-based learning and developing students' concepts, knowledge, skills, attitudes and values. Teachers are responsible for collaborative planning that involves students and builds on their prior knowledge and experience through in-depth units of inquiry.

2. Learning is the essential fuel for the leader, a source of high octane energy that keeps up the momentum by continually sparking new understanding, new ideas and new challenges. Bennis and Nanus, 1985

3. What are the beliefs and values that drive the ISCP? Mission The ISCP aims to synthesise the best research and practice from a range of national systems with the wealth of knowledge and experience in our own international schools to create a transdiciplinary curriculum which is relevant, challenging and engaging for learners in the the 3-12 age range.

4. Internationalism What is an international school? It is a school which regardless of location, size constitution, strives towards developing an international person. What is an international person? It is a person with the attributes and dispositions described in the set of students learning outcomes which have been identified.

7. What is the ISCP´S approach to learning? What, then does it mean to be an educated person? It means respecting the miracle of life, being empowered in the use of language, and responding sensitively to the aesthetic. Being truly educated means putting learning in historicasl perspective, understanding groups and institutions, having reverence for the natural world, and affirming the dignity of work. And, above all, being an educated person means being guided by values and beliefs and connecting the lessons of the classroom to the realities of life. Boyer 1981

8. The ISCP comprises three components: 1. What do we want to learn? The written curriculum The identification of student learning outcomes within a curriculum framework. Essential elements: concepts, knowledge, skills, attitudes, action

10. How will we know what we have learned? The learned curriculum The theory and application of effective assessment.

14. Planning significant units of inquiry, to be explored in depth Addressing assessment issues Planning emphising connections in all areas Planning which accommodates a range of ability levels