2010 Spring Orientation

June 1, 2010

Henrico High School

Priscilla Biddle

IB Coordinator

Welcome!

• Welcome to our family and to the next step in your IB journey

Introductions

• Mrs. Biddle, IB Coordinator• Mrs. Watson, IB Specialist

• Mrs. Vulcanoff, IB Assistant• Mr. Rodriguez, HHS Principal

• Ms. Kroll, IB Administrator• Ms. Bradford, IB Counselor

• Mr. Jeremiah, Activities Director• IB Teachers

• IB Parents

Review of the Program: 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.

Review of the Program: The Learner Profile• IB learners strive to be:

• Inquirers• Knowledgeable

• Thinkers • Communicators

• Principled • Open-minded

• Caring • Risk-takers • Balanced • Reflective

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Review of the Program: Middle Years’ Areas of Interaction

• Learning doesn’t take place in a vacuum• Middle Years is a bridge between the natural child-centered

curiosity that drives elementary education and serious academic study of secondary and beyond.

• It must impact WHO the student is, WHAT he/she does in the world, and HOW he/she does it

• Guiding questions offer the curriculum real life relevance• Project-centered approach encourages 21st Century

Skills

Review of the Program: Areas of Interaction

• Approaches to Learning• Community and Service• Human Ingenuity• Environment• Health and Social Education

Review of the Program: Diploma Program: Theory of Knowledge

• Two year course that picks up where AOI leaves off• Guiding questions implemented across curriculum:

– How do I know what I know?• Ways of Knowing: Perception, Emotion, Language, Reasoning• Justified True Belief

– To what extent or degree do the ways of knowing contribute to or cause problems of knowing as well as complement each other?

– How do the ways of knowing contribute in each of the areas of knowledge:

mathematics, natural sciences, social sciences, history, the arts, ethics and religion

Review of the Program: Creativity, Action and Service

• Graduated involvement that focuses on Learner Outcomes:

• increase their awareness of their own strengths and areas for growth

• undertake new challenges• plan and initiate activities

• work collaboratively with others• show perseverance and commitment in their activities

• engage with issues of global importance• consider the ethical implications of their actions

• develop new skills

Curriculum: Middle Years Program

Grade 9, Level 4 MYP• English 9

• Language – Year 2 or 3 of Spanish or French• World History and Geography II

• Biology• Geometry or Algebra II

• Arts (Theatre or Visual Arts) –semester• Technology – semester

• Health and PE

MYP Curriculum, continued

Grade 10, MYP Level 5• English 10

• Language – Year 3 or 4, French or Spanish• US Government and Virginia History

• Chemistry• Algebra II or Extended Math

• Arts: Theatre Arts or Visual Arts (semester)• Health and PE

• Assessments and Personal Project • completed toward the MYP Certificate

Personal Project

• A student-centered project, research-based and interactive, after which the student reflects on what he/she has learned in a paper

– The personal project may take many forms, for example:• an original work of art (visual, dramatic, or performance)• a written piece of work on a special topic (literary, social,

psychological, or anthropological)• a piece of literary fiction (that is, creative writing)

• an original science experiment• an invention or specially designed object or system

• the presentation of a developed business, management, or organizational plan (that is, for an

entrepreneurial business or project), a special event, or the development of a new student or community organization.

How you qualify for the MYP Certificate

• Must score 36/63 points (9x7= 63 as highest, with average score of 4x9= 36)

• No score lower than a 2 in subjects• Must have done a Personal Project• Must have scored a 3 or higher on the PP• Must have attended HHS in 9th and 10th

• Have satisfied CAS requirements

Curriculum, Diploma Program

Grade 11, Year 1• Language A1: English HL, Year 1 of 2

• Language B1: Year 4 or 5 SL, Spanish or French• History of the Americas HL, Year 1 of 2

• Experimental Science– Biology SL

– Chemistry SL or HL• Mathematics

– Extended Math– Mathematics SL or Math Studies SL

• Arts or Elective– Psychology SL or HL, Theatre Arts SL or HL, Visual Arts HL or

Other IB science• Theory of Knowledge

Extended Essay

• The extended essay is:• compulsory for all Diploma Program students• externally assessed and, in combination with the grade for theory of

knowledge, contributes up to three points to the total score for the IB diploma

• a piece of independent research/investigation on a topic chosen by the student in cooperation with a supervisor in the school

• chosen from the list of approved Diploma Program subjects, published in the Vade Mecum

• presented as a formal piece of scholarship containing no more than 4,000 words

• the result of approximately 40 hours of work by the student

DP Curriculum, continued

Grade 12, Year 2• Language A1: English HL, Year 2 of 2

• Language B1: Year 5 SL or 6 HL/SL, Spanish or French

• World Topics HL, Year 2 of 2

• Experimental Science– Chemistry SL or HL

• Mathematics– Mathematics SL or Math Studies SL

• Arts or Elective– Psychology SL or HL, Theatre Arts SL or HL, Visual Arts HL,

Biology SL or Chemistry SL or HL

• Theory of Knowledge

• AP Electives: Physics, Calculus, Statistics,

• World History, Art History, Environmental science

The rest of your packet

• Summer “enrichment” activities– Replaces all “summer reading” from Henrico County

Public Schools– 3 enrichment activities, depending on grade

• Reading, movies, museum visits

– “Think,” reflection and creative assignments designed to keep the “little gray cells” working and to keep the IB mindset of integrated curriculum

The Packet, continued

• Supplies• Reading List• Band and Music• Summer Sports• Clubs• CAS

Support for you

• My blog: www.henricowarriors.org/biddle• My email: plbiddle@henrico.k12.va.us• My phone: 228-2745, fax 228-2755 (until June 30)• Ms. Watson’s email: awatson@henrico.k12.va.us• Ms. Watson’s phone (July 1-August 3) 261-6440

• Mr. Rigler’s blog: www.henricowarriors/org/rigler/ib-cas-page

Support in the school year

• Blog, email, telephone, visits• Parent meeting in September• Students have “Biddle Pass” and THE CHAIR• 9th grade team leaders – Ms. Daniels and Ms.

Llewellyn• Breakfasts• Lunch with a teacher as needed; upper classmen

have presentation room to work in

For Parents

• Committees– HCPS Parent Advisory Council – Breakfasts– Diploma Ceremony– Learner Profile Gift – Picnic

Dates to Remember

• June 7 – physicals for fall sports – Mr. Jeremiah, 228-2703• June 30, July 28 --Holocaust Museum Visits • August 2 – fall sports conditioning (Cheerleading, Cross

Country, Field Hockey, Golf, Volleyball)• August, second week -- Henrico HS Freshman Orientation • August 9 – Football practice begins• August 13 – Band Camp begins.• August 18, 9-11:30 – Orientation for Freshmen new to IB

»Go to www. Highschoolsports.net

Your Questions

Thank you!

• Remember the IB motto:

–I think; therefore I B!