Chiyoda International School Tokyo

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To apply Buddhist ideals to the cultivation of well-educated, internationally-minded, and engaged individuals equipped with the intellect, character, and ethics to create peace and happiness for the world.
Chiyoda International School Tokyo seeks to apply Buddhist ideas to the cultivation of well-educated, internationally-minded, and engaged individuals equipped with the intellect, character, and ethics to create peace and happiness for the world.
Towards that end, Chiyoda International School Tokyo offers an advanced primary and secondary education curriculum that brings together a global spectrum of knowledge and wisdom to enable students to learn at a deeper level.
Everyone at Chiyoda International School Tokyo works tirelessly to provide students with a transformative educational experience that will open their eyes to the world as lifelong learners.
CHIST promotes the balance of UbT (Understanding by Technology) and UbC (Understanding by Communication). UbT is a type of learning in which the students can develop understanding by using educational ICT tools. UbC refers to direct communication with classmates, teachers, family, community, nature, literature, and all living things on the Earth without the use of technology. Through communication, students reconstruct and deepen their understanding of themselves and others. In these times, when the world is immersed with technology, communication without technology must be valued. These values are upheld in the CHIST classrooms.
CHIST believes that the blending and balance of the two can produce a valuable new education in terms of 21st-century education. For example, students could use a tablet to make a short video to show what they learned during an inquiry unit and then present it to those in the school community. From start to finish students would be able to document and store the content they create in a user-friendly space. This single storage place then allows for the students themselves or their peers to review the product that was created, and give meaningful feedback. In addition to students reviewing their work together, they will also be able to invite their families to look at achievements that the student has made. It is through this type of activity that students can develop and present their understanding of the newly acquired information. With this cycle of creating opportunities where technology and communication are blended students will be actively engaged and gain more encouragement and knowledge thus wish to pursue further inquiry.
Another challenge that the educators at CHIST have taken on is the blending of the Global Standard Curriculum and the Japanese National Curriculum. To create this unique curriculum, CHIST teachers will be using the framework and approaches that are typical of the Global Standard Curriculum and incorporate core parts of the Japanese National Curriculum. Our reasoning to blend the Japanese National Curriculum with the Global Standard Curriculum is because both are highly appreciated worldwide by both educators and families. It is then through this implementation of a blended curriculum that CHIST will be able to provide its students with a transformative educational experience leading them to be global citizens and most importantly lifelong learners!

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