The International Baccalaureate Careerrelated Certificate

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The International Baccalaureate
Career-related Certificate
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IBCC pilot schools
Oulu Vocational College, Oulu, Finland
North Karelia College, Outokumpu, Finland
College Françoise- Xavier Garneau, Quebec City,
Canada
Windermere St. Annes School, United Kingdom
Binghamton High School, New York, USA
West Island School, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Minneapolis Public School District, USA
Wesley College, Melbourne, Australia
Le Bocage International School, Mount Ory,
Mauritius
Diera International School, Dubai, United Arab
Emirates
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• Secondary-level education should provide
  effective preparation for those proceeding to
  academic or professional tertiary education as
  well as for those entering the world of work
  either as trainees, wage employees or as
  self-employed entrepreneurs, while inculcating
  the social skills for productive and peaceful
  life in todays interdependent communities. Such
  an education must necessarily comprise a
  harmonious balance of academic disciplines,
  general practical and social skills and civic
  responsibility. (UNESCO 2005)

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The school-workplace continuum emphasises

• An academic foundation
• The capacity to adapt to change
• Autonomous personal development
• Active social engagement

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What are the elements of the IBCC?

• Two Diploma Programme subjects one must be a
  foreign language (Group 2)
• A specially designed IBCC core recognising IB
  values and the needs of vocational students

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The DP subjects

• The subjects taken can be at SL (including ab
  initio for the foreign language subject) or HL
  depending on student abilities and needs
• Students whose mother tongue is not English can
  take English as their foreign language
• The second DP subject can be taken from any of
  the approved subjects from any Hexagon core group
• Pilot subjects and SBS subjects are not allowed

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The IBCC core

• A community and service program that emphasises
  civic development, knowledge development, social
  development and personal development
• An approaches to learning course that emphasises
  the development of thinking skills, perceptual
  skills, communication skills and personal skills
• A reflective project that emphasises the ethical
  dimension of an issue associated with the
  students career and technical education

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The future of the IBCC

• The current pilot runs until 2012
• Existing IBDP schools can apply to become IBCC
  schools in early 2011 for first teaching in 2012
• Another pilot has been set up for schools that
  wish to combine the IBCC with the Project Lead
  The Way (PLTW) curriculum
• Non IB schools will pilot the IBCC between
  2011-2016
• Non IB schools can apply to become IBCC schools
  in 2014 for first teaching in 2016

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Contacts

• Chris Mannix chris.mannix_at_ibo.org
• Fabrizia Flynn fabrizia.flynn_at_ibo.org