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International Baccalaureate

THE INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE (“IB”) PROGRAM
 

As of May 2011, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School is a candidate school for the Middle Years Programme and is pursuing authorization as an IB World School.

The International Baccalaureate program (IB) is often considered the world’s premier primary and secondary academic program. While American curriculum has vacillated between “progressive” and “back-to-basics” approaches, for the past 40 years IB has steadily refined and improved its approach to teaching and learning.

The International Baccalaureate Organization has two programs we have hope to use at Brooklyn Prospect: the Middle Years Programme (MYP) and the Diploma Programme (DP).

The MYP is designed to meet the educational requirements of students aged 11 through 16 years (grades 6-10). Its global focus and interdisciplinary approach is ideal for a student body with a broad range of academic and personal backgrounds such as the one at Brooklyn Prospect.  The IB program:

  • provides a global view of situations
  • cultivates multicultural awareness
  • focuses on holistic learning  presenting knowledge as an integrated whole that explicitly emphasizes the links between the disciplines
  • develops students’ skills, knowledge and attitudes as they learn about their own and others’ social and national cultures
  • emphasizes the acquisition of both written and oral communication skills, supporting inquiry and understanding and promoting student reflection and expression.

The MYP does not dictate content. It guides the approach while leaving specific content choices to the individual school. For more information visit: www.ibo.org.

Brooklyn Prospect Charter School is a candidate school* for the Middle Years Programme. We are pursuing authorization as an IB World School. These are schools that share a common philosophy—a commitment to high quality, challenging, international education that Brooklyn Prospect Charter School believes is important for our students.

*Only schools authorized by the IB Organization can offer any of its three academic programmes: the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), or the Diploma Programme (and in addition the IB Career-related Certificate). Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted. For further information about the IB and its programmes, visit http://www.ibo.org