Candor is an authorized IB world school which has been designed to ensure the delivery of an effective Diploma Programme with potential for meaningful community service projects. Candor’s organic farm provides opportunities for environmental science and other IB projects, including CAS. Dedicated, competent and experienced teachers offer several IBDP courses to students from many nationalities.
The school also integrates Pre-SAT and SAT preparations for high school students through a College Advisory Service and an experienced in-house college counselor who interacts with both students and parents.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
In addition to disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies, the Diploma Programme features three core elements that broadens students’ educational experience and challenges them to apply their knowledge and skills.
Theory of knowledge develops a coherent approach to learning that unifies the academic disciplines. This course on critical thinking inquires into the nature of knowing and deepens the understanding of knowledge as a human construction.
Creativity, action, service (CAS) involves students in a range of activities alongside their academic studies throughout the Diploma Programme. The three strands of CAS enhance students’ personal and interpersonal development through experiential learning and enable journeys of self- discovery.
The marks awarded for each course range from 1 (lowest) to 7 (highest). Students can also be awarded up to three additional points for their combined results on theory of knowledge and the extended essay. Minimum of 24 points must be gained to be awarded the IB diploma, this being subject to certain minimum levels of performance across the whole programme and to satisfactory participation in the creativity, action, and service requirement. The highest total that a Diploma Programme student can be awarded is 45 points.
Language A: Language and literature (SL/HL): The language A: language and literature course introduces the critical study and interpretation of written and spoken texts from a wide range of literary and non- literary genres.
Language B courses are intended for students who have had some previous experience of learning the language.
Economics: The course emphasizes the economic theories of microeconomics, which deal with economic variables affecting individuals, firms and markets, and the economic theories of macro-economics, which deal with economic variables affecting countries, governments and societies.
Information Technology in a Global Society (ITGS) (SL/HL): The ITGS framework is modelled on a ‘triangle’. It uses an integrated approach, encouraging students to make informed judgments and decisions about the role of information and communication technologies in contemporary society.
Psychology (SL/HL): The IB Diploma Programme psychology course is the systematic study of behavior and mental processes. The psychology course examines the interaction of biological, cognitive and sociocultural influences on human behavior.
Environmental systems and societies: Through studying environmental systems and societies (ES&S) students will be provided with a coherent perspective of the interrelationships between environmental systems and societies; one that enables them to adopt an informed personal response to the wide range of pressing environmental issues that they will inevitably come to face.
IB students are more likely than others to enroll in and graduate from selective higher education institutions
Based on their experiences, IB students possess a broader range of skills that enhance their ability to adapt and contribute to university life
IB students demonstrate a level of emotional and intellectual maturity for managing the demands of challenging coursework and make meaningful contributions
They have extensive experience doing independent research and presenting what they have learned through presentations, papers and other projects
They think critically and draw on diverse perspectives that reflect an international outlook
Participation in the IB Diploma Programme shows that students have excelled in multiple and diverse academic challenges which is a strong predictor for success at university level.
97% were satisfied the Diploma Programme prepares students for university
96% favored a broad curriculum of the type IB offers
57% felt the Diploma Programme offers an advantage to students as preparation for higher learning
Similarly, a survey of 160 university faculty and admissions staff from Australia and New Zealand showed that 77% of respondents indicated that the IB Diploma Programme prepares students well for university.