International Baccalaureate at Booker T. Washington High School

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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."

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The Diploma Program The IB Diploma Program is a demanding pre-university course of studies, leading to examinations, designed for highly motivated secondary school students. Conceived as a comprehensive two-year curriculum that allows its graduates to fulfill requirements of various national educational systems, the diploma model is based on the pattern of no single country but incorporates the best elements of several. Its reputation for rigorous assessment gives IB diploma holders access to the world’s leading universities and solid preparation for high achievement once enrolled. Diploma candidates are required to select one subject from each of the six subject groups. At least three subjects are taken at the higher level (240 teaching hours) and 3 at the standard level (150 teaching hours). Students must also enroll in Theory of Knowledge (TOK) for two years, complete a 4000 word Extended Essay, and fulfill 150 hours of community service (CAS). Assessing Student Work An essential element of IB assessment is that standards are the same worldwide. Member schools are scattered across continents and examiners represent many cultural and academic traditions, yet the organization measures student performance according to established standards and criteria that are consistent from place to place and year to year. Typically there is a series of written examinations at the end of the course. Conventional external examination techniques are chosen from a variety of options: oral and written, long and short responses, data-based questions, essays, and multiple-choice questions. Specialized forms of assessment appropriate to the nature of a given discipline are also used. Methods used by examiners external to the local school are complemented by internal assessment of coursework by the teachers responsible for evaluating students over the entire period of instruction. This is an important aspect of the IB’s overall assessment strategy because it gives students a chance to show what they can do over time, not just in the pressured context of a final examination. Internal assessment typically includes teacher evaluation of work done in class, homework assignments, special projects, notebooks and the like. With classroom teachers, international examiners and the IBO’s professional staff working in partnership, the emphasis is on ensuring that students have ample opportunity to demonstrate.