In the pages that follow you should find everything that you need or would want to know about the IB program at Stanton, beginning with the history of the organization itself.
Students begin the IB program in full in the 11th grade year, and the two year program ends with high school completion. There is one major curricular difference between IB prep and AP/Honors students in 9th and 10th: rising IB students must take a foreign language, and take it "IB Prep." Additionally, IB students are strongly encouraged to start taking the pre-requisite courses they may want for their 6th subject courses. These considerations are important so you do not find yourself trying to get into a class that you lack the pre-requisite for. Apart from those considerations, the core classes and elective options are identical.
Once in 11th and 12th grade, there are, broadly speaking, a few major requirements for the IB diploma. These are split between the students courses (the six subject areas) and the Core (CAS, TOK, and the EE):
Students begin the IB program in full in the 11th grade year, and the two year program ends with high school completion. There is one major curricular difference between IB prep and AP/Honors students in 9th and 10th: rising IB students must take a foreign language, and take it "IB Prep." Additionally, IB students are strongly encouraged to start taking the pre-requisite courses they may want for their 6th subject courses. These considerations are important so you do not find yourself trying to get into a class that you lack the pre-requisite for. Apart from those considerations, the core classes and elective options are identical.
Once in 11th and 12th grade, there are, broadly speaking, a few major requirements for the IB diploma. These are split between the students courses (the six subject areas) and the Core (CAS, TOK, and the EE):
- Your Six subject area courses. One from each subject area (English, World Language, History, Mathematics, Science, and the 6th subject, which can be an Arts, second Science, Humanities Elective, or second world language) will be assessed in full to count towards the IB Diploma. Additional courses may be taken for college credit and IB scores, but will not contribute to the overall diploma scores.
- The CAS (creativity, activity, service) program, comprising of approximately 150 hours of activity evenly split between the broad areas of creativity, activity, and service.
- The Theory of Knowledge class, spanning 3 semesters the junior and senior year, with an elective AP course (Comparative Government or Microeconomics) the last semester of the senior year.
- The Extended Essay, a 4000 word piece of research on a topic of the students choosing, completed throughout the junior and senior year.