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Welcome. for our current families, I hope that this site can be your number #1 stop for up-to-date information on what is happening at the school as well as a place to find information about policies and procedures for almost everything that we do. If there is something that you are looking for and can’t find here, please don’t hesitate to tell me in order for us to make the AISL website as comprehensive and transparent as possible. For our prospective students and parents, we hope this site gives you an idea of the student-centered culture that comes through everything that we do.
This includes learning with integrity, caring for human kind, and working one’s hardest no matter the endeavor: academics, sports, community service, leadership and beyond.
Moreover, we hope you get an impression of the amount of fun we Leopards have at school. Our host country is a dynamic place where smiles and laughter are the signature of its people. AISL is a reflection of the Zambian zest for life. Our high quality instruction and learning is exciting and infused with authenticity.
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Middle Years Programme
The Middle Years Programme serves as a framework for our curriculum here at AISL. You will find more specific information regarding subjects offered within the MYP Guides.
What is the IB Middle Years Programme?
The MYP is designed for students aged 11 to 16. It provides a framework of learning which encourages students to become creative, critical and reflective thinkers. The MYP emphasizes intellectual challenge, encouraging students to make connections between their studies in traditional subjects and to the real world. It fosters the development of skills for communication, intercultural understanding and global engagement, essential qualities for young people who are becoming global leaders. The MYP is flexible enough to accommodate the demands of most national or local curricula. It builds upon the knowledge, skills and attitudes developed in the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) and prepares students to meet the academic challenges of the IB Diploma Programme and the IB Career-related Certificate (IBCC).
The IB Middle Years Programme
The MYP holistically addresses students’ intellectual, social, emotional and physical well-being. It provides students opportunities to develop the knowledge, attitudes, and skills they need in order to manage complexity and take responsible action for the future. It ensures breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding through the study of eight subject areas and requires the study of at least two languages to support students in understanding their own culture and that of others. The MYP empowers students to participate in service with the community and helps to prepare students for further education, the workplace and a lifetime of learning. The Personal Project provides the opportunity for students to undertake an independent project through the focus of a global context.
The Curriculum
The IB Middle Years Programme consists of eight subject groups integrated through five interactive areas providing global contexts for learning. Students are required to study two at least two languages (as part of their multilingual profile), humanities, sciences, mathematics, arts, physical education and technology. In their final year of MYP, students choose an independent Personal Project to demonstrate their skills and understanding of the programme.
The Subject Groups
The MYP subject guides published by the IBO outline a framework of concepts and skills intended to provide adequate direction and advice to schools, and to ensure some commonality among MYP schools around the world.
The EIGHT subject groups are:
The MYP requires schools to teach a broad and balanced choice of subjects every year of the programme. To ensure significant learning in each subject group, the IBO stipulates a minimum teaching requirement of 50 teaching hours per subject group per year.
For further information about the programme, please access the IBO directly.
What is the IB Middle Years Programme?
The MYP is designed for students aged 11 to 16. It provides a framework of learning which encourages students to become creative, critical and reflective thinkers. The MYP emphasizes intellectual challenge, encouraging students to make connections between their studies in traditional subjects and to the real world. It fosters the development of skills for communication, intercultural understanding and global engagement, essential qualities for young people who are becoming global leaders. The MYP is flexible enough to accommodate the demands of most national or local curricula. It builds upon the knowledge, skills and attitudes developed in the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) and prepares students to meet the academic challenges of the IB Diploma Programme and the IB Career-related Certificate (IBCC).
The IB Middle Years Programme
The MYP holistically addresses students’ intellectual, social, emotional and physical well-being. It provides students opportunities to develop the knowledge, attitudes, and skills they need in order to manage complexity and take responsible action for the future. It ensures breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding through the study of eight subject areas and requires the study of at least two languages to support students in understanding their own culture and that of others. The MYP empowers students to participate in service with the community and helps to prepare students for further education, the workplace and a lifetime of learning. The Personal Project provides the opportunity for students to undertake an independent project through the focus of a global context.
The Curriculum
The IB Middle Years Programme consists of eight subject groups integrated through five interactive areas providing global contexts for learning. Students are required to study two at least two languages (as part of their multilingual profile), humanities, sciences, mathematics, arts, physical education and technology. In their final year of MYP, students choose an independent Personal Project to demonstrate their skills and understanding of the programme.
The Subject Groups
The MYP subject guides published by the IBO outline a framework of concepts and skills intended to provide adequate direction and advice to schools, and to ensure some commonality among MYP schools around the world.
The EIGHT subject groups are:
- Language and Literature: English
- Language B: French and Spanish
- Individual and Societies
- Mathematics
- Sciences: Physics, Chemistry and Biology (coordinated)
- Design
- Arts: Visual Arts, Music and Drama
- Physical Education
The MYP requires schools to teach a broad and balanced choice of subjects every year of the programme. To ensure significant learning in each subject group, the IBO stipulates a minimum teaching requirement of 50 teaching hours per subject group per year.
For further information about the programme, please access the IBO directly.
IB Diploma Programme
The Diploma Programme: preparing students for success in higher education and life in a global society.
The IB Diploma Programme (DP) is an academically challenging and balanced program of education with final examinations that prepares students, aged 16 to 19, for success at university and life beyond. It has been designed to address the intellectual, social, emotional and physical well-being of students. The programme has gained recognition and respect from the world’s leading universities.
The Diploma Programme prepares students for effective participation in a rapidly evolving and increasingly global society as they:
The curriculum
IB Diploma Programme students must choose one subject from each of five groups (1 to 5), ensuring breadth of knowledge and understanding in their best language, additional language(s), the social sciences, the experimental sciences and mathematics. Student may choose either an arts subject from group 6, or a second subject from groups 1 to 5.
The Diploma Programme Core
The Extended Essay asks students to engage in independent research through an in-depth study of a question relating to one of the DP subjects they are studying. The world studies extended essay option allows students to focus on a topic of global significance which they examine through the lens of at least two DP subjects.
Theory of Knowledge develops a coherent approach to learning that unifies the academic disciplines. In this course on critical thinking, students inquire into the nature of knowing and deepen their 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 Program. Creativity encourages students to engage in the arts and creative thinking. Action seeks to develop a healthy lifestyle through physical activity. Service with the community offers a vehicle for a new learning with academic value. The three strands of CAS enhance students’ personal and interpersonal development through experiential learning and enable journeys of self-discovery.
The IB Diploma Programme (DP) is an academically challenging and balanced program of education with final examinations that prepares students, aged 16 to 19, for success at university and life beyond. It has been designed to address the intellectual, social, emotional and physical well-being of students. The programme has gained recognition and respect from the world’s leading universities.
The Diploma Programme prepares students for effective participation in a rapidly evolving and increasingly global society as they:
- develop physically, intellectually, emotionally and ethically
- acquire breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding, studying courses from 6 subject groups
- develop the skills and a positive attitude toward learning that will prepare them for higher education
- study at least two languages and increase understanding of cultures, including their own
- make connections across traditional academic disciplines and explore the nature of knowledge through the program’s unique theory of knowledge course
- undertake in-depth research into an area of interest through the lens of one or more academic disciplines in the extended essay
- enhance their personal and interpersonal development through creativity, action and service
The curriculum
IB Diploma Programme students must choose one subject from each of five groups (1 to 5), ensuring breadth of knowledge and understanding in their best language, additional language(s), the social sciences, the experimental sciences and mathematics. Student may choose either an arts subject from group 6, or a second subject from groups 1 to 5.
The Diploma Programme Core
The Extended Essay asks students to engage in independent research through an in-depth study of a question relating to one of the DP subjects they are studying. The world studies extended essay option allows students to focus on a topic of global significance which they examine through the lens of at least two DP subjects.
Theory of Knowledge develops a coherent approach to learning that unifies the academic disciplines. In this course on critical thinking, students inquire into the nature of knowing and deepen their 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 Program. Creativity encourages students to engage in the arts and creative thinking. Action seeks to develop a healthy lifestyle through physical activity. Service with the community offers a vehicle for a new learning with academic value. The three strands of CAS enhance students’ personal and interpersonal development through experiential learning and enable journeys of self-discovery.
Assessment
Students take written examinations at the end of the programme, which are marked by external IB examiners. Students also complete assessment tasks in the school, which are either initially marked by teachers and then moderated by external moderators or sent directly to external examiners.
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. The diploma is awarded to students who gain at least 24 points, subject to certain minimum levels of performance across the whole program and to satisfactory participation in the creativity, action, service requirement.
The highest total that a Diploma Programme student can be awarded is 45 points.
Assessment is criterion-related, which means student performance is measured against pre-specified assessment criteria based on the aims and objectives of each subject curriculum, rather than the performance of other students taking the same examinations. The range of scores that students have attained remains statistically stable, and universities value the rigor and consistency of Diploma Programme assessment practice.
For further information, please access the IBO directly.
The site link above refers to the IBO source from which the DP description was adapted.
Students take written examinations at the end of the programme, which are marked by external IB examiners. Students also complete assessment tasks in the school, which are either initially marked by teachers and then moderated by external moderators or sent directly to external examiners.
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. The diploma is awarded to students who gain at least 24 points, subject to certain minimum levels of performance across the whole program and to satisfactory participation in the creativity, action, service requirement.
The highest total that a Diploma Programme student can be awarded is 45 points.
Assessment is criterion-related, which means student performance is measured against pre-specified assessment criteria based on the aims and objectives of each subject curriculum, rather than the performance of other students taking the same examinations. The range of scores that students have attained remains statistically stable, and universities value the rigor and consistency of Diploma Programme assessment practice.
For further information, please access the IBO directly.
The site link above refers to the IBO source from which the DP description was adapted.
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High School DiplomaTo obtain the AISL High School Diploma, students must successfully complete a balanced educational high school course of study, Grades 9 to 12, and must attend AISL for at least the entire Grade 12 year and fulfill the following requirements:
Students transferring from other schools will be rewarded credits after their previous school record has been evaluated.
Every effort will be made to accommodate the fact that students can have very different educational backgrounds and/or future plans.
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AISL provides students with a university and career guidance program. In Grade 10, students attend a retreat and are interviewed and advised by the High School Counselor and the IB Diploma Coordinator on choosing the appropriate IB or High School program and subjects for Grades 11 and 12. The counselor meets with all students and their parents to guide them through the university application process or to explore other post-secondary opportunities. Meetings generally begin to take place from Grade 10 onwards. Some university information is presented in a group format during evening presentations, PSE classes, and university representative visits.
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More specifically, AISL provides the following university preparation and career guidance support:
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Most students apply to universities in the US, UK, Canada or Europe; however, the AISL Counselor can assist with advising and preparing applicaitons to college/university programs all over the world.
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