IB Career-related Program
Overview
The IB Career-related Programme (IBCP) is designed to combine a career and technical education pathway with IB Diploma curriculum to prepare students for higher learning, apprenticeships or employment.
Students engage with a rigorous study programme that genuinely interests them, while gaining transferable and lifelong skills in applied knowledge, critical thinking, communication, and cross-cultural engagement.
IBCP’s three-part framework comprises the study of at least two Diploma Programme (DP) courses alongside the distinctive CP core and a career-related study. For CP students, DP courses provide the theoretical underpinning and academic rigour of the programme. The career-related study further supports the programme’s academic strength and provides applied and meaningful approaches to learning. The CP core helps them to develop skills and competencies required for lifelong learning.
IB Diploma Courses
IBCP students complete at least two internationally recognized IB Diploma Programme courses during their junior and senior year. The DP courses chosen should be relevant to the student’s career-related studies so that academic and professional skills are developed together to provide a connected skillset relevant to a future career. It is possible for students to study more than two DP courses.
CP Core
The core develops many of the student characteristics and attributes described in the IB learner profile and has three distinct qualities. The core is driven by student voice, choice, and ownership of learning, emphasizes connected, enduring and transferable knowledge, skills and attitudes, offers a variety of opportunities for authentic evidencing and ongoing assessment of learning.
The four components of the core are designed to be connected—by their nature, their learning outcomes, and their intentional connections. Students engage in the four components during grades 11 and 12. They are the Personal and Professional Skills course, Community Engagement, the Reflective Project, and Language and Cultural Studies.
CTE Pathway
Students in the IBCP complete a Career Technical Education (CTE) pathway. CTE provides students the opportunity to acquire real world skills and certifications through externships and capstone projects that prepare them for a variety of post-secondary options. Mira Loma offers three CTE pathways: Aviation, Medical Careers, and Cybersecurity.
IBCP Pathways
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CTE Pathways
The IB Career-related Programme combines Career and Technical Education with the rigorous and internationally-minded IB Diploma curriculum. Upon successful completion of the programme, students earn an International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme Certificate.
Mira Loma currently offers three CTE Pathways. Each of the pathways can be started in the 10th or 11th grade.
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IBCP CORE COMPONENTS
The core develops many of the student characteristics and attributes described in the IB learner profile and has three distinct qualities.
The IBCP core:
- is driven by student voice, choice, and ownership of learning
- emphasizes connected, enduring and transferable knowledge, skills and attitudes
- offers a variety of opportunities for authentic evidencing and ongoing assessment of learning.
The four components of the core are designed to be connected—by their nature, their learning outcomes, and their intentional connections. Viewed as a whole, the core aims to:
- anchor the programme to the IB mission through the development of the IB learner profile attributes and international-mindedness
- contextualize and enhance the DP courses and career-related studies, drawing together all the aspects of the framework
- promote the development of enduring personal, academic and professional knowledge, skills and attitudes
- reflect the understanding that learning is iterative, interconnected and a cornerstone of ongoing personal and community well-being.
Four interrelated components form the core.
IB Personal and Professional Skills (two-year course)
The IB Personal and Professional Skills course is designed for students to develop attitudes, skills and strategies to be applied to personal and professional situations and contexts now and in the future.
Through the development of intrapersonal and interpersonal skills, critical and ethical thinking, and intercultural understanding, the course supports student learning in the other core components and elements of the CP and prepares students for future pathways toward higher education, further training, or employment as well as for their personal lives.
Community Engagement
Community Engagement offers opportunities for students to learn in, from and with communities as well as to apply knowledge and skills acquired in other areas of learning.
In this component, students situate themselves in the context of their community and identify, explore and understand issues relevant to them and their communities that they can respond to through engagement in and with communities. Students create a portfolio to showcase what they have learned.
Reflective Project
The Reflective Project is an in-depth body of work produced over an extended period of time and submitted towards the end of the IBCP. Through a reflective project students identify, analyse, critically discuss and evaluate an ethical issue arising from an area of career-related interest.
The reflective project is intended to promote high-level research, writing and extended communication skills, intellectual discovery and creativity.
Language and Cultural Studies
The Language and Cultural Studies component invites students to better understand and expand their own linguistic and cultural repertoires, and imagine how they could further engage with a range of linguistic and cultural groups.
As partners in inquiry, students and teachers explore their linguistic and cultural repertoires and reflect on them in the context of local and global communities. Student portfolios will showcase their new linguistic skills and new-found cultural understandings.