Motive Power Program 18 ADSB <strong>2008</strong>-20<strong>09</strong> Course <strong>Calendar</strong>
International Baccalaureate Programme The Internaonal Baccalaureate Programme is a comprehensive, two-year curriculum that allows its graduates to fulfill the requirements of various internaonal educaon systems. It runs through the students’ grade 11 and 12 years, with students wring Internaonal exams in both of these years. Students enrolled in the IB Programme develop into inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring adults who help to create a beer and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. IB components, such as CAS (Creavity, Acon, Service) and TOK (Theory of Knowledge), teach students about their part in our global village. IB graduates are beer prepared for the rigours of university academic life as a result of having refined me management and organizaonal skills, as well as being beer prepared to handle the stresses associated with university courses. It provides students with disnct advantages when applying to universies in Canada, as well as to universies around the world. Students have a greater opportunity to be accepted at the university of choice and into the programme of choice. The success of IB graduates at university is also well documented. Typically, IB graduates maintain a significantly higher average than their counterparts and maintain their awards and scholarships more consistently. Enhanced Learning Programme The Enhanced Learning Programme (ELP) is intended to bridge the academic gap between the end of a student’s Grade 8 year and the commencement of the Internaonal Baccalaureate (IB) Programme beginning in the student’s Grade 11 year. Each course in the ELP covers the Ontario Secondary <strong>School</strong> Diploma (OSSD) requirements, as well as providing addional enhancements, in terms of both content and skills. Successful ELP applicants are asked to select either Music or Art as an elecve credit during their Grade 9 year. All other courses are prescribed. They are: English, Business, Math, Healthy Acve Living, French, Science, and Geography. Applying to the Enhanced Learning Programme Grade 8 students interested in the ELP/IB Programme are asked to complete an applicaon. These applicaons are available at Korah Collegiate and are also distributed at both ELP/IB Informaon Nights held in November. The applicant is asked to complete a wrien response, outline community and school-related acvies, submit copies of both Grade 7 and Grade 8 reports, and have a teacher or mentor submit a reference form directly to Korah Collegiate. Applicaons are typically due at the end of January, and noce of the student’s applicaon status is distributed by late February. Transferring to the Enhanced Learning Programme Although it is recommended that students enter the Enhanced Learning Programme in the beginning of Grade 9, students from other schools are welcome to apply for transfer to the ELP. Students should be aware that they are required to have completed Grade 10 academic French as well as Grade 11 Math (MCR 3U) before they are considered for entrance into the IB Programme. This is in addion to Grade 10 Science, English, History, Civics, Careers, and Math. If students demonstrate that they will be able to meet these requirements, they are asked to complete an applicaon form and include both Grade 9 and, where necessary, Grade 10 reports. The applicant will be nofied within a week of receiving his/her applicaon as to its status. Each applicaon will be considered on an individual basis. ADSB <strong>2008</strong>-20<strong>09</strong> Course <strong>Calendar</strong> 19
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