IB Mission Statement

The International Baccalaureate® 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 organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment. 

These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.

Student involvement

Teachers, coordinators and leaders facilitate that:

• students are active and valued members of the learning community.    
• students participate in planning, completion, reflection, and evaluation of educational experiences.
• students try out different strategies and their impact on learning

Working together

The students are part of a community where they:

• have a safe environment where they are encouraged to try without fear of failure
• are seen and heard in an environment that fosters/celebrates diversity
• have collective responsibility for each other’s learning and development

Learning promoting social and academic competence

The students must have a good learning environment where they:

• have an environment that feels safe and predictable
• have a varied and investigative approach to learning and assessment
• use prior learning in familiar and unfamiliar settings highlighting connections between and within subjects
• understand what and why they are learning and utilise assessment for/as learning
   

Motivation and mastery

Teachers must facilitate that the students:

• develop curiosity and interest, are challenged and experience mastery
• experience positive challenges
• learn activities, assessment and feedback based on current competence
• experience school as relevant and meaningful both now and for future
• are involved in society, in work and study