ib diploma junior/senior parent meeting october 1, 2014 · ib diploma junior/senior parent meeting...
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Agenda for tonight:•Welcome new and returning parents
•The IB Learner Profile
•Discuss components of Diploma Program and Certificate Program
•Update on projects to support candidates
•Discuss Extended Essay
•Touch on college applications and the IB
•Review fees and CAS hours
•Learn about volunteer opportunities
The IB Learner Profile•IB learners strive to be:
•Inquirers
•Knowledgeable
•Thinkers
•Communicators
•Principled
•Open-minded
•Caring
•Risk-takers
•Balanced
•Reflective
How many candidates:
•Class of 2015: 93 diploma, 160 certificate
•Class of 2016: 92 diploma, 160 certificate
•Diploma/Certificate Program serves about half of B-CC’s juniors and seniors
IB Diploma Program RequirementsOne subject in each of the six groups:
English
Second Language
History
Science
Math
Group 6 elective (Group 6, in addition to the arts, may include another science, Psychology, Anthropology, or an additional foreign language)
IB Diploma Program Requirements
Diploma candidates must also complete:
• 150 Creativity-Action-Service (CAS) hours
• An extended essay of 4000 words
• Two semesters of Theory of Knowledge
(1st semester of junior and senior years)
• One semester of Extended Essay/Guided
Research (junior year)
IB Certificate Program
Requirements
Certificate students must meet the
individual requirements for their
specific course or courses, but
do not take ToK, Extended
Essay, complete the extended
essay or the CAS hours.
When do IB students take exams?
• Students take their IB exams in May of
their final year in a particular course of
study. For example, a student studying IB
Environmental Systems this year will take
the exam in May 2015. A student who
completes a course sequence over two
years will take the exam at the end of the
two years.
Higher or Standard Level?
• Diploma candidates must take 3 exams at
Higher Level (after two years of study),
and may take 4 exams. The other 2 – or
3 – exams are taken at Standard Level. At
B-CC, English and History must be taken
at Higher Level.
• No 11th graders may take a HL exam, nor
may they take more than 2 exams as
11th graders
Higher or Standard Level?
• Universities typically award
credit/placement for high scores in
Higher Level exams, but not always
for Standard Level exams
• Check the specific university’s
admissions/registrar’s webpage for
details
Supporting our Candidates #1
Academic help and assistance with skills
are available:
• National Honor Society Tutoring
• Junior/Senior Mentors (seniors receive
CAS hours)
• TAP
• Brown Bag Seminars
Supporting our Candidates #2
Academic help and assistance with skills are available:
• Ongoing assessment calendar at the IB B-CC website to spread out the major assignments and tests
• IB web pages on B-CC website with forms and important information
• Calendar of important dates for students and families
• Suggestions are welcome!
The Extended Essay: Juniors
• 4000 word essay on a topic of their choice
• In March: visit to Bender Library at
American University for orientation and
book borrowing
• Extended essay class second semester
The Extended Essay: Seniors
• Draft of extended essay was due in
June
• Students are currently refining and
reworking
• Final version of essay is due January
8, 2015
The Extended Essay: Juniors
• IB requirements for extended essay
are changing
• Students will complete the extended
essay before the end of the school
year.
• Final version of essay due June 2015
Colleges and the IB #1
• IB Students (certificate and diploma) who sat for an exam in May 2014 as juniors can have their scores reported with their transcripts if they wish (there is a check-off box on the transcript request form)
• Remember to check a university’s policy for awarding advanced standing for satisfactory IB scores
Colleges and the IB #2
• More and more universities are giving
special consideration to IB diploma
candidates in admissions, awarding
credit, and for merit and need-based
aid – including some of our Maryland
state schools, UMCP, UMBC and St.
Mary’s College.
Colleges and the IB #3
• IB Americas completed some research on college acceptance rates among the twenty most popular application choices for IB Diploma students in 2011. The full presentation is on the B-CC IB webpage, but on the next two slides you can see acceptance rates in these schools among IB diploma students and the applicant population at large.
IB Diploma Acceptance rates –
10 most popular schools
• .
01 January
2012
University or collegeIB students
acceptance rateTotal population acceptance rate
IB students vs total population
University of Florida 82% 42% +40%Florida State University 92% 60% +32%
Brown University 18% 9% +9%Stanford University 15% 7% +8%Columbia University 13% 9% +4%
University of California - Berkeley 58% 26% +32%Harvard University 10% 7% +3%
New York University 57% 30% +27%University of Michigan - Ann Arbor 71% 51% +20%
University of Miami 72% 30% +42%
Source: IBDP Graduate Destinations Survey 2011/12 conducted by i-graduate International Insight
Strictly copyright © IGI Services 2011
Colleges and the IB #3
01 January
2012
Source: IBDP Graduate Destinations Survey 2011/12 conducted by i-graduate International Insight
Strictly copyright © IGI Services 2011
University or CollegeIB students
acceptance rateTotal population acceptance rate
IB students vs total population
Cornell University 31% 18% +13%
Duke University 28% 16% +12%
University of Pennsylvania 24% 14% +10%
Yale University 18% 7% +11%
University of Central Florida 90% 47% +43%
Boston University 70% 58% +12%
University of California - Los Angeles 48% 23% +25%
University of Virginia 64% 32% +32%
UNC Chapel Hill 63% 32% +31%
Princeton University 16% 8% +8%
Fees: Diploma Candidates
• $420 for class of 2015, $400 for class of 2016
• Exam fees due October 20, 2014 –payable to BCC-HS IB program
• Please see/call me – or have your student see me – if there are family financial considerations
• Payment memoranda and registration going home next week
Fees: Certificate Candidates
• $160 base registration fee + $110 per exam
• One exam = $270, two exams = $380, etc.
• Candidates should have brought home a registration form for signature
• Payment letter going home next week
• Exam fees due October 20, 2014 – payable by check to B-CC HS and returned to the IB office or mailed back
• Please see me – or have your student see me – if there are family financial considerations
All About CAS:
• CAS is meant to be the IB learner profile in practice, learning leadership, teamwork, reflection, and a sense of who you are in this world.
• Students divide their 150 CAS hours into three areas: Creativity, Action and Service – but learning the skills of the activities they do, and doing a variety of CASactivities is just as important as logging the hours.
More About CAS:
• While students can plan for CAS in advance of beginning the IB diploma program, the opportunities to participate in CAS begin on the first day of 11th grade
• Students document their CAS activities with a self-evaluation form and a reflection activity (essay, pictures, e-mail, etc.).
• Students use an on-line system to complete CAS
Still More About CAS:
• Deadlines for current seniors to turn in summer activities for CAS: October 30
• Deadline for current seniors to turn in all CASdocumentation: March 31, 2015
• Deadline for current juniors to turn in junior year CAS: May 31, 2015
• CAS coordinator, Ms. Stream, will be available to help students with ideas and paperwork
Parent participation: Victoria Pfaff
11th grade, Karen Lippold, 12th
grade
• Parents are expected to participate in one activity each year to support diploma students
• Activities: CAS advisers, volunteer committee, speakers’ bureau, Library field trip chaperones (and other trips), extended essay forum and dessert reception, and IB examination invigilation
• List of activities on pink page
•1.Major IB dates calendar (blue)
2.College Matriculation (pink)
3.Learn to speak IB (green)
4. IB handbooks (on line)
Handouts: