Hainan Micro-city Future School is a Candidate School for the Diploma Programme. This school is pursuing authorization as an IB World School. These are schools that share a common philosophy—a commitment to high quality, challenging, international education that the Diploma Programme believes is important for our students.
Only schools authorized by the IB Organization can offer any of its four academic programmes: the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), the Diploma Programme, or the Career-related Programme (CP). Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted. For further information about the IB and its programmes, visit www.ibo.org.
The followings are official introductions to the IB Diploma Programme
IB Mission Statement
u 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.
u To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
u 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
Mission statement in action- IB Learner profile
IB learners strive to become:
inquirers
knowledgea
thinkers
communicators
principled
open-minded
caring
risk-takers
balanced
IB cirruculums
The six subject groups are:
• Studies in language and literature
• Sciences
• The arts
The three core elements are:
• Theory of knowledge, in which students reflect on the nature of knowledge and on how we know what we claim to know.
• The extended essay, which is an independent, self-directed piece of research, finishing with a 4,000-word paper.
• Creativity, activity, service, in which students complete a project related to those three concepts.
DP requirements
Ø Students are required to choose one subject from each of the six academic areas. They can choose a second subject from each academic area except the arts. u
Ø SL (Standard level) -150 class hrs; HL (High level) -240 class hrs
Ø Core subjects: Theory of Knowledge, Extended essay, CAS (Creativity, Action, Service)
Ø Each student takes at least three (but not more than four) subjects at higher level, and the remaining at standard level
Assessment in the DP
●External evaluation: In May of the 2nd year.
They include:
• essays
• structured problems
• short-response questions
• data-response questions
• text-response questions
• case-study questions
●Internal evaluation: Through research work. Evaluate the teacher of the subject.