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The aims of the International Baccalaureate Program are: to provide rigorous and broad-based curricula and assessment, to maintain high academic standards common to schools worldwide, to allow students to develop individual talents, to foster critical and compassionate thinkers, to open the window between the classroom and the outside world, to foster a lifelong interest in learning as well as in becoming an informed and responsible citizen, to promote international understanding and a respect for the variety of cultures, and to facilitate university entrance around the world. Brookhaven Middle School is a prospective International Baccalaureate School. We are in the middle of the application process. We are beginning to implement the five areas of interaction of the Middle Years Program. Five Areas of Interaction Approaches to Learning Homo Faber Community and Service Health and Social Education Environment Approaches to Learning
How do I learn best? How do I know? How do I communicate my understanding How do I organize my materials? How do I take notes? Homo Faber
Why and how do we create? What are the consequences of our creations? How does technology affect the world? How do art, music, and literature affect the world? |
Community and Service
How do we live in relation to each other? How can I contribute to the community and the world? How can I help others? How does one segment of a community interact with other segments of a community? Health and Social Education
How do I think and act? How am I changing? How can I look after others and myself? How has disease changed the world? How does a healthy body impact me? Environment
Where do we live? What resources do we have or need? What are my responsibilities to my environment? How does my environment impact my own life
For more information about the International Baccalaureate philosophy please visit www.ibo.org. |