While public schools offer different honors and accelerated courses, International Baccalaureate programs are fully inclusive curriculum pathways. Drawing on research and practices from a variety of national systems, the program provides students with challenging educational frameworks for each age and ability level. Students learn how to critically evaluate information, while also learning facts and complex concepts. Students are prepared for higher education by encouraging inquiry-based lessons and activities, while developing a sense of self, culture, identity, and communication. The culmination is an education that is sought-after by the world’s leading universities.
The IB is unique:
- It offers a continuum of education, spanning the years from kindergarten to a pre-university diploma.
- It has a reputation for high quality education sustained for over 35 years. The curriculum represents the best from many different countries rather than the exported national system of any one.
- The IB encourages international-mindedness in its students. To do this, students must first develop an understanding of their own cultural and national identity. All IB students learn a second language and the skills to live and work with others internationally—essential for life in the 21st century.
- It encourages a positive attitude to learning by encouraging students to ask challenging questions, to reflect critically, to develop research skills, and to learn how to learn. The IB encourages community service because there is more to learning than academic studies alone.
- It ensures that its programs are accessible to students in a wide variety of schools—national, international, public and private—in 138 countries. These IB World Schools form a worldwide community in which there is no such thing as a “typical” school (more than 50% of IB students are in state-funded schools). IB World Schools cooperate in curriculum development, student assessment and the governance of the IB, making this a unique international collaboration.
The International Baccalaureate program utilizes six transdisciplinary themes as its framework for exploration and study. These themes are: who we are, where we are in place and time, how we express ourselves, how the world works, how we organize ourselves, and sharing the planet. Teachers will be encouraged to integrate these elements as theme anchors to educational units developed around the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards. Following the International Baccalaureate innovative curriculum model, Hatikvah International Academy Charter School will incorporate five essential elements into all curricular frameworks. These elements are: concepts, knowledge, skills, attitudes, and action. The purpose of the incorporation of this is for children to gain knowledge that is relevant and of global significance.
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