![]() Students become more aware of critical circumstances and the need to continue their education. Technology aids this attribute allowing students in isolation to build networks and connections with others. Students find new and creative ways to communicate. Students are provided with more opportunities to analyse and this gives them the opportunity to overcome any challenges and make good decisions. This attribute allows students to think through problems and find solutions without supervision. Researching about their environment and local situations will help them both understand and deal with problems that arise from a new reality. ![]() Students can broaden their knowledge by pursuing new areas of information. During virtual learning students have even more access to learn and adapt to challenges by using technology to facilitate their learning and research topics in more depth to provide greater understanding. Students have a thirst for knowledge, curiosity and enthusiasm to research and explore. The table below displays the learning attributes that students build while using the IB learner profile in these unique times. ![]() Students who have these attributes are better equipped to continue learning under these new and challenging circumstances than non-IB students. However, specifically the IB learner profile helps develop a variety of 21 st century skills. The emphasis on developing learning styles that meets the needs of each diverse student and encourages them to be lifelong learners, helps sustain the educational process with a variety of teaching and learning resources. The inquiry-based focus of the IB curriculum fosters creative methods that prepare students to face any learning obstacle that they may come across, COVID included. The IB Programme's structure, philosophy and learner profile can be seen as tools that teachers can use in maintaining educational focus and standards, despite all the challenges. While virtual learning may present many challenges, and does not substitute reality, it does offer IB students and teachers an opportunity that makes the most out of this experience. We are lucky today that technology has made it possible to continue the educational process online and maintain communication between teachers and virtual classrooms. Other schools and universities are searching for various solutions to ensure that education continues, and teachers and students are adapting in numerous ways. Many students were forced last year and continue this year to study remotely. ![]() The IB Learner Profile: A Tool of Stability in a World of ChangeĬOVID 19 (Coronavirus) has changed our world and reality, as we know it. ![]()
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