What is IB?International Baccalaureate

Jurupa Hills High School“A School of Intercultural Understanding

and Global Learning”

May 1, 2012

California Steel Industries sponsors our efforts to form an IB program. We are

seeking other sponsors.

Sponsors

Two-year program that spans the eleventh and twelfth grade years

Supplies the academic rigor to prepare students for the best universities in the world

Assures that the students are not only excellent in the academic sense, but that they are also good members of the world community

HL vs. SL and Certificate vs. Diploma

Higher Level (HL)

Courses that require two years of study

Standard Level (SL)

Courses that require one year of study

Full Diploma students must engage in three HLs

Students can elect to take single classes (certificate), or the entire program (Diploma)

Students may elect to take the SL test instead of the HL test

Extended Essay • 4,000 word independent research paper

Creativity, Action, Service (CAS) • Service projects having students

participate in a variety of activities, including: music, drama, athletics, and community service

Theory of Knowledge (TOK) • Course in which students study the base of

critical thinking

An IB diploma can be worth 30 quarter units in the UC system! An IB diploma can earn a student up to 45 quarter units at Stanford! An IB diploma accounts for as many as 32 semester units at USC!

Know your student is getting challenging curricula that makes the student learn globally

Know that the student is working with a large team of teachers and community members

Curricula is regularly updated

Availability of regular parent meetings

Regular updates on www.JHills.org

We are authorized as an International Baccalaureate World School.

We currently have 46 students registered to seek the IB Diploma for the next two years

We will be offering 9 courses in the six subject areas

Students have already been instructed in the EE and CAS

inquirers

knowledgeable

thinkers

communicators

principled

open-minded

caring

risk-takers

balanced

reflective

IB Learner Profile