Canadian International School Kunshan

The International Baccalaureate (IB) program is a curriculum offered by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) for students aged 3-19 around the world. It consists of four major categories: Primary Years Programme (PYP), Middle Years Programme (MYP), Diploma Programme (DP), and Career-related Programme (CP). In an IB world school, the entire educational system encourages both personal development and academic achievement challenging students to think critically, to ask questions and think across disciplines.

The IB aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring 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. 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.

IB programmes provide an education that enables students to make sense of the complexities of the world around them, as well as equipping them with the skills and dispositions needed to become the leaders of tomorrow. They provide an education that crosses disciplinary, cultural, national and geographical boundaries, and that champion critical engagement, stimulating ideas and meaningful relationships.