The International Baccalaureate Study Group

• The original goal of our study group was to learn about the International Baccalaureate Program and study whether or not it was desireable and/or possible to bring the program to GHS.
• Dan McBride, Jon Kauffmann, and Derek Shuttleworth
• Our group met together and began by conducting research on the nature of the International Baccalaureate Program. Our research began with the description of the program on the IB website. We then branched out to look at websites created by IB teachers that showed full descriptions of curriculum created to meet the curriculum requirements.
• We spent quite a bit of time discussing together some of the key features of the IB program, especially the class in epistemology that is at the core of the IB. We discussed how a similar approach could be built into our existing classes.
• We discussed the feasibility of bringing the IB Program to GHS, but came to the conclusion that is was highly unlikely that the program could be created at a time when staffing was being reduced.
• Each of us took something different away from our studies. There we quite a bit of excitement at the possibility of adding a philosophy component into some of our existing classes.