The IB learner profile's is a list of 10 words with a detailed description of how that word can describe a student; but it's also a list that encourages us students to try their best to be:
- Inquirers: I can learn to be a better inquirer by watching more films and movies at home or with friends so that I can develop my natural curiosity and opinions to understand the movie on my own terms.
- Knowledgeable: I can learn to become more knowledgeable by looking closer to the movies and television shows I watch and not only pay attention to the characters and the story lines/the plots, but as well as paying attention to the background, the setting, the cinematography, etc.
- Thinkers: I can learn to be a better thinker by using what I already know about film and build on that to create more complex or new thoughts about films in general or the concept/plot of a certain film in particular.
- Communicators: I can learn to be a better communicator by not keeping my thoughts to myself, but by sharing suggestions or opinions on films or on projects we may be working on and see how my thoughts and ideas can contribute to what we are working on right now.
- Principled: I can learn to become more principled by respecting each person in my group as an individual and not singling anyone out, as well as by being honest with people without being rude and hurting their feelings. This can help me become a better film student because in every group or project, everyone should be equals and I should be honest when there is a suggestion or an idea expressed by someone else and express my thoughts without being rude and insulting a person's idea.
- Open-minded: I can learn to become more open-minded by not limiting myself and letting myself use different perspectives to understand different places in the world and their different cultures and values, and to understand why they are the way they are. This can help me become a better film student because being open-minded can help me gain different perspectives when watching a film which can help me understand a film even better than just looking at it in one perspective.
- Caring: I can learn to become more caring by using my own feelings and experiences to relate to characters in films so that I can understand the character's emotion better.
- Risk-takers: I can learn to be a risk-taker by doing things which are out of my comfort zone with confidence such as using new softwares and making big changes in our film. Film can help me learn to be a risk-taker because this is all new to me this year and there are going to be times when I have to take a leap of faith, be a risk-taker and deal with problems head on and not hesitate.
- Balanced: I can learn to be more balanced by understanding that film isn't just about the written work, it's also about enjoying what we're doing and learning from all the mistakes we make throughout the process of our work.
- Reflective: I can learn to be reflective by always remembering to reflect after every class so that I'll know what I should do for next class, such as; knowing what i'm good at and using that to my advantage, knowing what i'm bad at and finding ways to improve on it, and reflecting on how well my group worked today and try to change the things we are bad at as a group and try to keep the things we are good at as a group constant.
