The IB Program
IBO MISSION STATEMENT
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“The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.”
At the heart of its work the IBO runs four educational programmes which are being delivered to over a million students worldwide! The IBDP is the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. It is designed for 16-19 year-olds.
The Diploma Programme is its university entrance programme course. It is a rigourous and demanding course. It is currently being delivered in over 140 countries worldwide (and this is still growing) within approaching 2500 schools. It is widely recognised and highly respected by employers and universities around the world.
But the IBDP is not just a set of examinations, it is a course of study built around an educational philosophy. It is designed to develop you as a person not just your academic skills. In this way it prepares you for your university study and for life as a valued member of society. I hope that you will see study of the IBDP as a series of opportunities.
Beyond the subject specific syllabi, the IBDP aims to develop you as learners and as people. To this end it has developed a 'Learner Profile' - a set of attributes or characteristics of the type of learner which the programmes hope to develop. They underpin the programme.It is what our students (and their teachers!) should strive for!It is reproduced on the next page.
I firmly believe that IBDP really stands for Infinitely Better Developed Person!
Beyond the subject specific syllabi, the IBDP aims to develop you as learners and as people. To this end it has developed a 'Learner Profile' - a set of attributes or characteristics of the type of learner which the programmes hope to develop. They underpin the programme.It is what our students (and their teachers!) should strive for!It is reproduced on the next page.
I firmly believe that IBDP really stands for Infinitely Better Developed Person!
I know that many universities and employers recognise this too!
Ben Schiller IB Coordinator upto 2017