Class of 2017 Program Orientation

• The Utica Community Schools Academy for
International Studies (UAIS) is a 4 year (14 – 18)
Academy with 500 students that promotes academic preparation through:
– The International Baccalaureate Diploma Program
Curriculum
– Natural / Brain-based Learning strategies
– Research based decision making
– Student voice and personalization of learning

• Validity and Consistency
• Integrated Curriculum
• IB is favored by Universities and Colleges
• Learning how to learn
• Well Rounded students with specialized interests

The International Baccalaureate Organization 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 IBO works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programs of international education and rigorous assessment. These programs encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.

• Duke University, Christoph Guttentag,
Director of Admissions :
“One of the advantages of an IB curriculum is its structure and quality. It’s a coordinated program, well established, well known, and well respected. We know the quality of IB courses, and we think the IB curriculum is terrific.”

• Harvard University, Marilyn McGrath
Lewis, Asst. Dean of Admissions:
“IB is well known to us as excellent preparation. Success in an IB program correlates well with success at Harvard.
We are pleased to see the credentials of the
IB Diploma Program on the transcript.”

Michigan Diploma
• ELA - 4 Credits
• Foreign Language – 0 Credits
• Social Studies – 3 Credits
• Science – 3 Credits
• Mathematics – 4 Credits
(Alg I, II and Geometry)
• Fine Arts – 1 Credit
• Physical Education – 1 Credit
• Online Experience
International Baccalaureate
Diploma
• Group 1 – HL or SL
• Group 2 – HL or SL
• Group 3 – HL or SL
• Group 4 – HL or SL
• Group 5 – HL or SL
• Group 6 – HL or SL
• Theory of Knowledge, TOK and CAS
• EE

Standard Level (SL)
• AP Level Course Work and
Expectations
• 150 Contact Hours with
Students
• All students must take at least two (2) SL Courses
• SL Courses Require Mastery of Subject Matter
Higher Level (HL)
• Beyond AP Level Course
Work and Understanding
• 240 Contact Hours with students
• All Students Must Take at
Least three (3) HL Courses
• HL Requires Mastery of
Subject Matter and additional
Papers

Internal Assessments
• Ongoing
• 20 – 25% of Student’s
Diploma Mark
• Teacher generated assignments that align with
IB standards for assessment
• Externally Moderated by IB
Reviewers
• Project, oral or paper based
External Assessments
• May of Junior and Senior
Years
• 75 – 80% of Student’s
Diploma Mark
• Externally generated and moderated
• Paper, portfolio or oral based
• Only science has multiple choice (only part)

• One of the most effective and humanizing ways that people of different cultures can have access to each others' experiences and concerns is through works of literary merit.
~ Salma Jayyusi, The
Literature of Modern Arabia
• 9 th Grade ELA
• 10 th Grade ELA
• 11 th Grade
– IB English SL I or,
– IB English HL I
• 12 th Grade
– IB English SL II or
– IB English HL II

• The study of a modern language entails acquiring a language system and applying it in four active and interrelated ways: through listening, speaking, reading and writing.
• All students will take four years of a language
• French
• Japanese
• Mandarin Chinese
• Spanish
• SL or HL?
– Most students will be SL students.
– HL requires a minimum 6 years of language.

• 9 th and 10 th Grade:
History of World
Civilizations
– 10,000 BCE – Present
– Integrated World History,
Government and
Economics Course
– Will require significant novel readi
• HL Strand
– 11 th History of Americas (HL)
– 12 th 20 th Century Topics (HL)
• SL Strands
– 11 th History of Americas (SL)
– 12 th SL Course
• Economics SL
• Psychology SL

• Laboratory Based Science education is at the Core of the IB
• 9 th Grade: Physical and
Biological Sciences
• 10 th Grade
– AP Biology
– AP Chemistry
– AP Physics
• SL and HL sciences are two years 11 th – 12 th
– Biology (SL/HL)
– Chemistry (SL/HL)
– Physics (SL/HL)
• All students must take
Biology in the 10 th or
11 th /12 th to graduate
• Group 4 Project

• Academy Inquiry based mathematics.
• 9 th Grade:
– Geometry
– Algebra I or II
• 10 th Grade:
– Algebra I or II
– AP Statistics
• 11 th – 12 th Grade
– SL Math Studies
• Statistics and project based
• Enters some pre-calc
– SL Mathematics
• Statistics and Advanced Alg. and Trig
• Calc AB
– HL Mathematics
• Stats, Adv. Alg, Trig
• Calc BC

• The impulse to make art is common to all people.
From earliest times, human beings have displayed fundamental need to create and communicate personal and cultural meaning through art.
• IB Arts: Theory, History and Practice
• IB Music
– Instrumental
– Vocal
• IB Visual Arts
– Visual Studio Arts
– Film Studies
• IB Theatre
– Performance
– Design

• CAS
– Creativity, Action and
Service
– 150 Hours (Junior and
Senior Years)
• Extended Essay
– 4000 Words
– One or more Groups
– Original Hypothesis
• TOK: Theory of
Knowledge
– Ways of Knowing
– Areas of Knowledge
– Knowledge Issues
• Interdisciplinary
• Learning How to
Question

• Looking for a Complete
Student!
– 24 Marks *
• Possible 7 marks per exam
• 3 Marks for TOK / EE
• International Avg. 4.3
– Minimum 3 HL Courses
– Maximum 3 SL Courses
– Completion of EE, CAS and TOK
• HL Deal Breakers
– Score 2 or below on any
HL Examination
– Score 3 on more than one
Exam
• SL Deal Breakers
– Score 1 on any Exam
– Score 2 on more than one
Exam

• Transportation for all indistrict students who would not otherwise walk to Heritage
• Schedule
• School Within a School
Model
• Base Schools

• Inquirers
• Knowledgeable
• Thinkers
• Communicators
• Principled
• Open-minded
• Caring
• Risk-takers
• Balanced
• Reflective

• Have access to clubs and activities
• Have access to home school sports/activities
• Lead through student voice
• Create a community of friends and learners
• Enjoy working with their teachers

• Seek students’ input on curriculum and assessment
• Prescribe to IB curriculum and methods of teaching and learning
• Teachers plan together and create a team atmosphere in the school

• Relaxed but challenging
• Engaged learners
• Project based learning
• Socratic dialogues
• Reading and writing
• Independence
• Ethical Learners

• Seminar days
• International partnerships
• Student Lead Clubs and
Activities
• International Travel
• Internships / Job
Shadowing
• The IB Community

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