It is not what we know but how we know it.

Education is constantly changing to meet the needs of an increasingly demanding world.  In the past schools taught knowledge and students memorised what they were taught. If you were luck you also understood this and were able to apply information to similar situations.

Educationalists realised however that it was not enough to know and remember you need to be able to evaluate, analyse and even come up with new, original ideas. The diagram shows bloom taxonomy which represents all of these skills. The concepts at the bottom of the pyramid are the easiest and as the pyramid ascends they get more challenging but become more useful.

The IBO believes that we should work with students and give them access to all of these skills even from the earliest ages. Obviously it takes time to understand the higher order skills but by the time students reach the IB diploma programme they should be comfortable analysing, synthesising and evaluating new ideas.

This is why Theory of Knowledge is a core subject and is so important to the Diploma. It seeks to refine the skills on which all of the other subjects depend by dealing with the issues like the way we learn, bias and perception in a detailed analytical way. For this reason the IB diploma, taught here at AICJ, is the premier educational programme preferred by the better universities around the world.