SMMHS is authorized as an IB World School!
On March 11, 2010, we were notified by the International Baccalaureate Association that we are authorized to offer the IB Middle Years Program in grades 6-10. This makes us the largest MYP in the state of Tennessee. Congratulations and thanks go to all of the teachers, students, and parents who made this a reality. A public announcement was made on March 15 during a school-wide assembly.
Application B for the IB Diploma Program has been submitted, bringing us another step closer to offering this challenging and exciting program to interested 11th and 12th grade students. We hope to be authorized to offer the Diploma Program in the fall of 2011.
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What is the International Baccalaureate Program? – The IB program includes 3 educational programs
designed by the International Baccalaureate Organization, or IBO. These
programs are the Diploma Program for 11th and 12th graders, the Middle
Years Program for 6th to 10th graders, and the Primary Years Program for
1st to 5th graders. Only the Diploma Program and Middle Years Program
are under consideration for the new Signal Mountain School.
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The IB Learner Profile
The aim of all IB programs is to develop internationally minded people who, recognizing their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet, help to create a better and more peaceful world.
IB learners strive to be:
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A Signal Mountain Teacher’s Perspective on the International Baccalaureate
Since members of the Founders’ Fund began talking about the International Baccalaureate Organization (IB), I’ve heard almost every imaginable response – from the idea that teachers will wear blue helmets and ride to school in white UN humvees to the idea that our school will pay thousands of dollars a year to put a fancy label on the same teaching and learning we’ve always done. I’m writing this piece to present one teacher’s opinion about what it will really mean to implement IB’s programs at the new Signal Mountain Middle/High School.
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International Baccalaureate:
Making the Case from the Cognitive Sciences
Kristen Weeks Neal, Ph.D.
With contributions from the MNPS IB Advisory Council, Sharon Chaney (Chair), March 2008
The International Baccalaureate Programme (IB) has at the heart of its mission to develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. (See www.ibo.org for further information.)
The IB curriculum is based on the research from the cognitive sciences, from which we derive our understanding of human learning processes and the development of competence in students. Central to this research is the concept of transfer, or how students translate ideas from one context to another. If students are successful in applying what they have learned to other contexts, then learning has taken place.
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