September 2, 2015. Third day in IB training program.

Sorry that the first blog of IB training is actually from the third day. In the first two days, the whole IB DP/MYP/PYP programs learned something about some facts of IB's current situation, and experience the CAS (creativity, action, and service) that is actually a series of volunteering activities. There will be a lot to write about and I will gradually show you what we have done for the first two days.

Now is the third day of being in the IBDP program. It was a bad experience for me because I got cold last night. For the today's lecture from 9 am to 3:30 pm, I was in a headache mode and had to push myself almost to the limit. But I have to say today's lecture is wonderful.

We first review the IB's current situation (which has been demonstrated by Gary Little in the second day), and then Isabel showed us the requirements of receiving the final IB diploma. The DP program starts from Grade 11 and finishes in Grade 12. It contains groups of subjects: Group 1: first language (English, French, Spanish); Group 2: second language (a language that is different from the first language. For example, mandarin, german, etc.); Group 3: Humanity (history, geography, business management, economics, etc.); Group 4: science (biology, chemistry, physics, environment system, etc.); Group 5: math (math studies, math I, math II, further math); Group 6: arts (dance, painting, musics, etc.). To achieve the final diploma, a student must have 3 HL (higher level) courses and 3 SL (standard level) courses.

According to the requirement I create my own IB plan: English (SL), Mandarin (HL), economics (HL), physics (SL), math (HL), and chemistry (SL). For the sixth course I select chemistry but not a course from Group 6 arts.

Also, we did a inquiry design for a unit in math. We chose the Pythagorean Theorem as the topic.