The American International School of Bolivia
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.
"High quality international education for a better world"
The International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) was founded in order to develop a high quality educational system that could meet the expectations of students in an era of rapid globalization. Founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1968, the organization assessed the national educational systems around the world, combining the best practices of each into a program that would prepare national leaders inthe fields of business, finance, government and nonprofit sectors.
· It offers a rigorous pre-university diploma founded on internationally respected pedagogical approaches and wide-ranging curriculum options for students, for unparalleled preparation for university success after high school.
· It has a formidable reputation for high-quality education sustained for over 35 years, with the curriculum representing the best from many different countries rather than a curriculum adopted by a specific national system. Its challenging Diploma Programme assessment is recognized and respected by the world's leading universities.
· It encourages international and intercultural thinking, first by developing in students an understanding of their own cultural and national identity and then branching into a profound understanding of the world. All IB students learn a second or third language, and in turn develop skills to live and work with others internationally, required for twenty-first century life.
IB students study six main subjects of the possible selected thematic areas, with three subjects studied at an advanced level (courses of 240 hours of learning) and the remaining three at a standard level (courses of 150 hours of learning).
- Inquirers
- Knowledgeable
- Thinkers
- Communicators
- Principled
- Open-minded
- Caring
- Risk-takers