B7Essential reading

The IB provides heads of school, coordinators and teachers with a wide variety of resource material, most of which is available on the IB public website (http://www.ibo.org) and/or the online curriculum centre (http://occ.ibo.org). For the convenience of coordinators, the following documents are available from links at the bottom of each screen because they are so fundamental to the implementation of the Diploma Programme in IB World Schools.

It is stressed that these are not the only documents that a coordinator may need to refer to on a regular basis. Others include the many subject guides and the Diploma Programme coordinator’s notes, which are published four times each year. As mentioned previously, it is essential that the coordinator conveys information found in such documents to the appropriate subject teachers. For example, the coordinator’s notes always contain information about forthcoming changes to subject content and assessment.

Two new publications relating to language and learning in all three IB programmes have been published on the OCC. These are:

These documents relate to the following sections of the Programme standards and practices document: A2: 9/10, B1: 20, C1: 14/15, C2: 3/7 and C3: 9.

They are intended to support the implementation and establishment of these standards and practices and will be linked with professional development courses.