IB Curriculum
ICSA offers the prestigious IB Diploma Programme for our juniors and seniors. The curriculum is world renowned for its academic depth and rigor, and consistently produces internationally minded, independent thinkers.
What Makes IB Special
- Global Perspective: The Diploma Program encourages students to develop a global perspective by exploring issues and ideas from different cultural, historical, and societal contexts.
- Rigorous Curriculum: The IB offers a challenging curriculum that covers a broad range of subjects, ensuring students receive a comprehensive education across all disciplines.
- Creativity and Innovation: The program recognizes the importance of creativity and innovation and encourages students to explore their creative abilities through various subject areas, including the arts, sciences, and humanities.
- Community Engagement: The IB encourages students to actively participate in their local and global communities through service activities, fostering a sense of social responsibility and a commitment to making a positive impact on the world.
What it Means to be an IB Learner
The IB Learner Profile is one of the most important aspects of being an IB Diploma Program student at ICSA. s students move through the two-year program, they will be expected to model the ten IB learner traits.
- Inquirers: We nurture our curiosity, developing skills for inquiry and research.
- Knowledgeable: We develop and use conceptual understanding, exploring knowledge across a range of disciplines.
- Thinkers: We use critical and creative thinking skills to analyze and take responsible action on complex problems.
- Communicators: We express ourselves confidently and creatively in more than one language and in many ways.
- Principled: We act with integrity and honesty.
- Open-minded: We critically appreciate our own cultures and personal histories as well as the values and traditions of others.
- Caring: We show empathy, compassion and respect.
- Risk-takers: We approach uncertainty with forethought and determination.
- Balanced: We understand the importance of balancing different aspects of our lives.
- Reflective: We thoughtfully consider the world and our own ideas and experiences.
Preparing our Students
The IB Diploma Program’s comprehensive and holistic approach to education equips students with the skills, knowledge, and mindsets necessary to thrive in the future. The program’s rigorous curriculum fosters critical thinking, problem-solving, and independent inquiry, empowering students to analyze complex issues and approach them from multiple perspectives. Through its emphasis on research, writing, and communication skills, the IB Diploma program cultivates effective communicators and lifelong learners who can adapt to the rapidly changing demands of the modern world.
The Courses we Offer
- For Group 1, Language and Literature, we offer English A Language & Literature and also French A Language & Literature.
- For Group 2, Language Acquisition, we offer French B, English B, Spanish B, and French Ab Initio.
- For Group 3, Individuals and Societies, we offer Business Management, Global Politics, Geography, History, and Environmental Systems & Societies.
- For Group 4, Experimental Sciences, we offer Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Environmental Systems & Societies, and Computer Science.
- For Group 5, Mathematics, we offer Mathematics Analysis and Approaches and Mathematics Applications & Interpretation.
- For Group 6, The Arts, we offer Visual Arts and Theater.
University Acceptances
Since the IB Diploma Program is so well regarded, our students have been accepted to some of the world’s most prestigious universities. Just in in the last few years, ICSA students have attended Columbia University, Yale, UCLA, American University of Paris, Cornell, Boston University, Johns Hopkins, Iowa State, Purdue, Rutgers, University of Texas, Berklee College of Music, University of Toronto, Queen Mary University, Amsterdam University College, and the University of British Columbia (to name a few!)