The IB Diploma Programme Core
CAS (Creativity, Activity, Service)
CCHS Pre-IB and IB students are expected to be engaged in
their communities (school, local, national, international). Pre-IB service
hours and Diploma Programme CAS experiences and projects help to create
internationally-minded students.
CAS Overview
Students complete all CAS Reflections on ManageBac: LINK
EXTENDED ESSAY
In the second semester of junior year all Diploma Programme
students begin the Extended Essay. The Extended Essay allows DP students to
engage in sustained research and development of a 4,000 word college quality
essay. The essay is completed by October of the Senior year.
IB Extended Essay Website LINK
TOK
Across the two years of the IB Diploma Programme students
will be enrolled in two full-year TOK courses.
“TOK plays a special
role in the Diploma Programme by providing an opportunity for students to
reflect on the nature of knowledge. The task of TOK is to emphasize connections
between areas of knowledge and link them to the knower in such a way that the
knower can become aware of his or her own perspectives and those of the various
groups whose knowledge he or she shares. TOK, therefore, explores both the
personal and shared aspects of knowledge and investigates the relationships
between them.
The raw material of
TOK is knowledge itself. Students think about how knowledge is arrived at in
the various disciplines, what the disciplines have in common and the
differences between them. The fundamental question of TOK is “how do we know
that?” The answer might depend on the discipline and the purpose to which the
knowledge is put. TOK explores methods of inquiry and tries to establish what
it is about these methods that makes them effective as knowledge tools. In this
sense, TOK is concerned with knowing about knowing.” (IBO.Org; TOK Website)
IB TOK Website LINK