SENIOR SCHOOL STUDENT - PARENT HANDBOOK
SENIOR SCHOOL STUDENT - PARENT HANDBOOK
SENIOR SCHOOL STUDENT - PARENT HANDBOOK
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• expand their linguistic competence through the study of one or more<br />
additional languages<br />
• develop a sense of international awareness and genuine respect for<br />
perspectives different from their own<br />
In practice this means that<br />
• The school should work with parents to foster the best environment for<br />
language learning, recognizing that a great deal of language learning<br />
takes place at home.<br />
• The school should work with parents to ensure the best possible<br />
language program for individual students.<br />
• All teachers should recognize that they are language teachers as well<br />
as subject teachers.<br />
• Normally, students will be expected to speak only English in all classes<br />
in which English is the teaching language<br />
• Students must be given the opportunity, wherever possible, to continue<br />
learning their best language and/or mother tongue.<br />
• Students should not be admitted unless they have a mother tongue or<br />
first language proficiency which is deemed to be age-appropriate.<br />
• To support their integration into the host community, provision is made<br />
for all students to learn German.<br />
• Students will be assessed individually on their standards in English<br />
and German when they enter the school. When a student has limited<br />
knowledge of English, extra support in English will be provided and the<br />
development of English given initial priority.<br />
11. QUALIFICATIONS FROM ISD<br />
ISD awards a Certificate of Attendance and an ISD Diploma. In addition,<br />
students may also earn the external International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma<br />
or individual IB certificates. In certain circumstances, the German 10 th grade<br />
diploma may also be awarded.<br />
ISD CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE: is for students who have attended<br />
school for twelve or more years, and who have been enrolled at ISD for at<br />
least one academic year, but who have failed to meet the requirements for<br />
award of the ISD Diploma. Recipients of this certificate may subsequently be<br />
awarded the ISD Diploma if they make up the missing requirements within<br />
one year of the end of their 12 th grade.<br />
ISD DIPLOMA:<br />
Students must be enrolled for a minimum of four years in an officially<br />
accredited secondary school commencing at ninth grade or its equivalent. At<br />
least the final year of study must take place at ISD.<br />
To be awarded the ISD diploma a student must have<br />
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