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International Baccalaureate Organization Mission Statement
The International Baccalaureate Organization 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 IBO works with schools, governments, and international organizations to develop challenging programs of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programs encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate, and lifelong learners, who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
Program Aims
- Provide rigorous and broad-based curricula and assessments.
- Maintain high academic standards common to schools worldwide.
- Allow students to develop individual talents.
- Foster critical and compassionate thinkers.
- Open the window between the classroom and the outside world.
- Foster a lifelong interest in learning as well as informed and responsible citizenship.
- Promote international understanding and a respect for a variety of cultures.
- Facilitate university entrance around the world.
What Is It?
- An internationally recognized program.
- A high quality curriculum that aims to encourage critical thinking by the study of traditional disciplines while encouraging an international perspective.
- A program designed for the academically able student who can function across the curriculum and who has learned to manage time well.
Why Do It?
- IB has an international acceptability, which allows for both flexibility and mobility.
- IB educates the “whole person”.
- IB encourages students to appreciate cultures and attitudes other than their own and to be informed, tolerant, and willing to communicate with others.
- The IB approach to education is not encyclopedic. The emphasis is on helping students to learn how to learn and how to analyze.
- IB provides a broad general education while still allowing specialized study in areas corresponding to the individual’s particular interests and plans for the future.
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