International Baccalaureate Mission Statement

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 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.

What is the Middle Years Programme?

The MYP is a program of international education designed to help students develop the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and skills necessary to participate actively and responsibly in a changing world.

Fundamental Concepts

An International Baccalaureate education is built on a strong foundation made of three fundamental concepts. These concepts—communication, holistic education and international mindedness—affect every student at every level of the program.

Communication

Communication—verbal and nonverbal—is paramount to learning and is a key objective in every IB class at Moore. Communication is a means of self-expression, reflection and is critical to showing understanding.

Communication has many different faces. In a single day a student might write an opinion essay in a Language A class, perform a skit or play in a Humanities class, work through a word problem with a classmate in a math class or write a lab report in science class. Not to mention all the communication that goes on in the cafeteria at lunch!

IB recognizes that communication is everywhere—including the professional world—and therefore teaches students to successfully communicate in a variety of ways.

Holistic Education

The holistic education piece of the IB program focuses on helping student to realize connections of all kinds. Whether they make connections between different disciplines through the areas of interaction or between their school and the greater world or between existing and new knowledge, students understand that all knowledge is interrelated.

The “real world” is complex and problems are solved only by looking at them from a variety of perspectives.

Intercultural awareness develops student attitudes, knowledge and skills as they learn about both their own culture and others’ culture. This fosters acceptance and respect through developing empathy and understanding. Promoting responsible global citizenship prepares students for their future as members of a global society.

At Moore, intercultural awareness comes from activities like Operation Christmas Child and class discussions about diversity and different cultures’ influences on history.

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