UNDERSTANDING THE DIPLOMA PROGRAMME (DP)

This workshop is designed to meet the needs of a range of professional development requirements and can be used by interested schools and candidate schools as well as a post-authorization refresher. There is a focus on what it means to be an IB World School offering the DP and how the values of the school should reflect and promote the IB standards and practices. For interested schools and candidate schools, this provides an opportunity to consider the basics while those schools post-authorization will be given an opportunity to reflect and evaluate their IB journey thus far. To foster a community of collaboration, teachers will explore the role of the three DP core elements: theory of knowledge; Creativity, activity, service; and the extended essay as a means of broadening students' educational experience and providing an interdisciplinary forum in which students are challenged to apply their knowledge and skills. This will support DP subject teachers in developing a deeper understanding of the core elements and means of articulation with the subjects they teach through meaningful curriculum planning and consideration of approaches to teaching and learning.