The Diploma Programme

Noor International Language School (NILS) is an IB Diploma Programme (DP) Candidate School. The school is preparing for authorization by implementing IB standards, developing its curriculum and policies, and providing professional development for teachers to ensure successful programme implementation.

International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program is an extraordinary and challenging two-year curriculum. The Diploma Program structures and balances rigorous academic work with requirements that push you outside the classroom into community service, creativity, and physical activity. It will get you ready for universities around the world.

If you work through the full two-year program towards the IB Diploma, you’ll think deeply and critically. You’ll learn to question, research, and write thoroughly, ambitiously, distinctly. You’ll probably change the way you look at the world, and you’ll help others (including your teachers) change the way they look at the world as well.

IB is designed to help you improve the world through knowledge and respect. We feel the IB mission and goals fit our values particularly well.

Read more details about the IB Program at the official IB website.

IB Mission

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.

IB Curriculum

All IB Diploma candidates are required to take courses leading to examinations in six subjects.

  • Studies in language and literature.
  • Language acquisition.
  • Individuals and societies.
  • Sciences.
  • Mathematics
  • The arts.

Additional Diploma Requirements

 

In addition to the six courses and examinations, IB Diploma candidates must take the Theory of Knowledge course, write a 4,000-word extended essay, and participate in CAS (Creativity, Action, Service) activities.

 

Theory of Knowledge

Theory of Knowledge, often called TOK, provides IB candidates with opportunities to reflect upon their experiences in the light of selected philosophical issues. The course aims to help students in the following ways:

  • develop greater understanding of the methods, achievements, and connectedness of subjects studied in school.
  • develop greater ability to pursue analyses that illuminate issues in constructive and compassionate ways.
  • develop greater ability to articulate experiences, concepts, and values, both orally and in writing.

Theory of Knowledge assessment is based on one externally graded essay (1,000–1,500 words), and an internally graded presentation.

 

Extended Essay

The Extended Essay is an original and extended piece of research and writing by the student on a topic from one of the six IB subjects. The 4,000 word essay is supervised by a school teacher and the IB coordinator. Assessment is by an external examiner.

 

Creativity, Activity, Service

Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS) is organised around the three strands of Creativity, Activity and Service defined as:

  • Creativity – arts and other experiences that involve creative thinking
  • Activity – physical exertion contributing to a healthy lifestyle, complementing academic work elsewhere in the IB Diploma Programme
  • Service – an unpaid and voluntary exchange that has a learning benefit for the student.