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International Baccalaureate General Information
The International Baccalaureate is a prestigious program that offers a well-rounded, rigorous curriculum that promotes an intercultural understanding and encourages students to become active global citizens through education. This concept is eloquently captured in the IB Mission Statement:
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.
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.
The student who satisfies IB demands demonstrates a strong commitment to learning, both in terms of the mastery of the subject content and in the development of the skills and discipline necessary for success in a competitive world.
The International Baccalaureate Diploma Program is designed to meet the highest standards required of any high school student in the world. Successful completion of the Diploma Program earns the student a diploma recognized for university admission throughout the world and for course credit and academic placement at 1000 leading colleges and universities in the United States.
The IB Diploma Program is a system of syllabuses and examinations based on the idea that general education at the upper secondary level should encompass the development of all the main powers of the mind through which the student interprets, modifies, and enjoys his/her environment.
Knoxville West High School has been offcially authorized by the IBO to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. This school is an IB World School. These are schools that share a common philosophy—a commitment to high quality, challenging, international education that (this school) believes is important for our students.
The International Baccalaureate Diploma Program is designed to meet the highest standards required of any high school student in the world. Successful completion of the Diploma Program earns the student a diploma recognized for university admission throughout the world and for course credit and academic placement at 1000 leading colleges and universities in the United States.
The IB Diploma Program is a system of syllabuses and examinations based on the idea that general education at the upper secondary level should encompass the development of all the main powers of the mind through which the student interprets, modifies, and enjoys his/her environment.
Knoxville West High School has been offcially authorized by the IBO to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. This school is an IB World School. These are schools that share a common philosophy—a commitment to high quality, challenging, international education that (this school) believes is important for our students.
*Only schools authorized by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) as IB World Schools can offer any of its three academic programmes: the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), or the Diploma Programme. Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted.
West High School will be offering IB courses in Fall 2011. Members of the Class of 2012 will be able to take IB courses for certificates only. Members of the Class of 2013 will be the first cohort to complete the Full Diploma Programme at West High School.
For more information, please download the WHS IB Information Booklet. If you have any questions about the IB Diploma Programme please call Sarah Bast, IB Coordinator at 594-1265.
IMPORTANT DATES FOR IB APPLICANTS:
