What is the International Baccalaureate Programme? 

The Middle Years Programme

At present Barbara Bush Middle is is a candidate school working toward the goal of becoming an authorized world school.  The final authorization visit takes place November 2, 2009.

The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (MYP) is designed for students aged 11 to 16.  This period, encompassing early puberty and mid-adolescence, is a particularly critical phase of personal and intellectual development and requires a programme that helps students participate actively and responsibly in a changing and increasingly interrelated world.  Learning how to learn and how to evaluate information critically is as important as learning facts.

The programme consists of eight subject groups integrated through five areas of interaction that provide a framework for learning within and across the subjects.

Students are required to study their mother tongue, a second language, humanities, sciences, mathematics, arts, physical education and technology. In the final year of the programme, students also engage in a personal project, which allows them to demonstrate the understandings and skills they have developed throughout the programme. 

The five year continuum begins with the first three years (grades 6-8) at BBMS followed by the last two years (grades 9-10) at Ranchview HS.  The MYP is one of three programmes offered by the IB.  For more information about the IBA click here

The IB thanks Southbank International School (UK) and International Community School (Georgia) for helping make this video.

The Diploma Programme
The IB Diploma Programme is an internationally-recognized program of junior and senior curriculum primarily aimed at students who are motivated to participate in a challenging and rewarding curriculum of advanced coursework. The interrelated curriculum encourages students to ask questions, reflect on their own learning, develop a strong sense of their own identity and culture, and develop the ability to communicate with and understand people from other countries and cultures. The IB Diploma Programme emphasizes transdisciplinary learning and requires students to study courses across six disciplines: English, Second Language, Individuals & Societies, Sciences, Math & Computer Sciences, and Arts & Electives.

Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD committed to offering the full continuum of IB programs.  Click here for more information about the how the three programs will be implemented in CFB.

The curriculum model, as illustrated by the octagon to the left, shows how the individual student is the center of the programme.  Students study subjects from each of the eight subject groups through the five areas of interaction: approaches to learning, community and service, human ingenuity, environment, and health and social education.

Just as pen, paper, scissors, glue, crayons, construction paper, typewriter and watercolors were some of the tools many of us used to produce reports and share what we were learning, blogs, wikis, photo sharing sites, podcasts and other new online resources are the tools of today's students.  And just as we had to learn to cut, to color, to use cursive writing, our students must learn how to use these new tools.  That means we must use them and teach to use them effectively as well.  If school library media programs are to be relevant to today's students, we must embrace these new digital tools--hopefully, leading the way as we have in other areas of technology in the past.
 

Illinois Institute of Design's Research Project (funded by the MacArthur Foundation) on Schools in the Digital Age reports:
 

While early websites were passive--that is you could read information from the page, but you couldn't add to the information or change it in any ways, now they allow for much interactivity and user-created content.  Some people say that Web 1.0 was about locating information, and Web 2.0 is about using websites as application software much as one uses MSWord or PowerPoint or other software on your computer.  Web 2.0 sites allow one to read AND write!  In addition, most Web 2.0 sites offer the opportunity to share and/or collaborate on the work.  Web 2.0 tools provide digital equity, too, providing knowledge about the tools students and teachers can use outside of school.  Check out some Web 2.0 tools! 

"WebTools4u2use." [Online]. <http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/> 1 January 2009.

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