IB Diploma Programme
As an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School, YIS proudly offers a fully inclusive International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme in Grades 11 and 12, ensuring that all students have access to a globally recognized, high-quality education that fosters critical thinking, intercultural understanding, and personal growth.
The 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 programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
YIS IB Achievements
YIS started implementing the IB Diploma Programme in 2022-2023 school year.
Approaches to Teaching
Based on Inquiry
Teaching uses real-life contexts and examples, and students are encouraged to process new information by connecting it to their own experiences and to the world around them.
Focused on conceptual understanding.
Concepts are explored in order to both deepen disciplinary understanding and to help students make connections and transfer learning to new contexts.
Developed in local and global contexts.
Teaching uses real-life contexts and examples, and students are encouraged to process new information by connecting it to their own experiences and to the world around them.
Focused on effective teamwork and collaboration.
This includes promoting teamwork and collaboration between students, but also refers to the collaborative relationship between teachers and students.
Designed to remove barriers to learning.
Teaching is inclusive and values diversity. It affirms students’ identities, and aims to create learning opportunities that enable every student to develop and pursue appropriate personal goals.
Informed by assessment.
Assessment plays a crucial role in supporting, as well as measuring, learning. This approach also recognizes the crucial role of providing students with effective feedback.
Approaches to Learning
Thinking skills, areas such as critical thinking, creative thinking and ethical thinking
Research skills, including skills such as comparing, contrasting, validating and prioritizing information
Communication skills, including skills such as written and oral communication, effective listening, and formulating arguments
Social skills, including areas such as forming and maintaining positive relationships, listening skills, and conflict resolution
Self-management skills, including both organizational skills, such as managing time and tasks, and affective skills, such as managing state of mind and motivation.
The IB DP Cirriculum Model
YIS Choices for the Diploma Programme
Group 1- Studies in Language & Literature
- English A: Language & Literature HL/SL
- Language A – Literature: Myanmar Studies SL
Group 1- Studies in Language & Literature
- English A: Language & Literature HL/SL
- Language A – Literature: Myanmar Studies SL
Group 1- Studies in Language & Literature
- English A: Language & Literature HL/SL
- Language A – Literature: Myanmar Studies SL
Group 2- Language Acquisition
- Mandarin Ab Initio (Beginning): SL
- Spanish Ab Initio (Beginning): SL
Group 3- Individuals & Societies
- Psychology (HL & SL)
- Economics (HL & SL)
Group 4 – Sciences
- Physics HL/SL
- Chemistry HL/SL
- Biology HL/SL
Group 5 – Mathematics
- Mathematics: Analysis & Approaches HL/SL
- Mathematics – Application & Interpretation
- HL/SL
Group 6 – The Arts
- Visual Arts HL/SL
The Choice of Subjects (for the DP)
ONE from EACH of the GROUPS 1 through 5.
- This ensures breadth of Knowledge and understanding in their best language
- Additional Language
- Individuals and Societies
- Experimental Sciences, and
- Mathematics
Students choose their SIXTH(6th) Subject in any of the following ways:
- ONE from Group 6 Arts, or
- A SECOND one from Groups 1 through 4
The IB Diploma requires three subjects to be taken at the Higher Level (HL) and three subjects to be taken at the Standard Level (SL)
Theory of Knowledge
Theory of knowledge (TOK) is assessed through an oral presentation and a 1,600 word essay.
It asks students to reflect on the nature of knowledge, and on how we know what we claim to know.
TOK is part of the International Baccalaureate® (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) core, and is mandatory for all students.
Extended Essay
The extended essay is a required component of the International Baccalaureate® (IB) Diploma Programme (DP).
It is an independent piece of research, culminating with a 4,000-word paper.
What is the significance of the extended essay?
The extended essay provides:
- practical preparation for undergraduate research
- an opportunity for students to investigate a topic of personal interest to them, which relates to one of the student’s six DP subjects, or takes the interdisciplinary approach of a World Studies extended essay.
Through the research process for the extended essay, students develop skills in:
- formulating an appropriate research question
- engaging in a personal exploration of the topic
- communicating ideas
- developing an argument.
Participation in this process develops the capacity to analyze, synthesize and evaluate knowledge.
CAS Projects
The extended essay is a required component of the International Baccalaureate® (IB) Diploma Programme (DP).
It is an independent piece of research, culminating with a 4,000-word paper.
What is the significance of the extended essay?
The extended essay provides:
- practical preparation for undergraduate research
- an opportunity for students to investigate a topic of personal interest to them, which relates to one of the student’s six DP subjects, or takes the interdisciplinary approach of a World Studies extended essay.
Through the research process for the extended essay, students develop skills in:
- formulating an appropriate research question
- engaging in a personal exploration of the topic
- communicating ideas
- developing an argument.
Participation in this process develops the capacity to analyze, synthesize and evaluate knowledge.
IB and AP Have Different Program Goals
IB has more emphasis on writing and developing critical thinking skills—and not just on the exams themselves. The IB diploma also requires the extended essay, a long, college-style research paper. The IB program also has extracurricular requirements.
In contrast, the AP is a program focused on teaching students specific content and testing their knowledge on the exams. There is more multiple-choice and emphasis on meeting certain content goals.
IB Academic Integrity Policy
If you would like to download the IB Academic Integrity Policy, please feel free to [click here].