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Career-related Programme Core

Personal and Professional Skills (PPS)

Personal and professional skills course is designed for students to develop attitudes, skills and strategies to be applied to personal and professional situations and contexts now and in the future. In this course the emphasis is on skills development for the workplace that are transferable and can be applied in a range of situations.

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To review the PPS Course Syllabus click here

 

The 90 hour PPS course focuses on the five themes of:

  • Personal development​

  • Intercultural understanding​

  • Effective communication​

  • Thinking processes​

  • Applied ethics​

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Reflective Project

 

Below is a brief overview of the Reflective Project, for a full explanation of student's expectations, please click here to access the student handbook.

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The reflective project focuses on an ethical dilemma of an issue directly linked to a student’s career‑related study. A minimum of 50 hours is expected to be devoted to the reflective project and like the Extended Essay in the DP, it is graded on an A-E scale.

 

  • At the end of the 50 hours students will submit:

  • a Reflections on planning and progress form (1,000 words).

  • A reflective project presented in one of two ways:

  • Option 1: A written essay (maximum 3,000 words).

  • Option 2 : A written essay (1,500–2,000 words) accompanied by an additional format (film, oral presentation, interview, play or display).

 

  • Below are two examples of business-related reflective projects:

  • Have Google and Facebook breached the privacy of their users?

  • To what extent does the western consumer, in their demand for products containing coltan, have an ethical responsibility for the war and human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

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Service Learning

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Below is a brief overview of the Service Learning programme, for a full explanation of student's expectations, please click here to access the student handbook.

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Students will go through the same five steps as is part of DP CAS:

  • investigation

  • preparation

  • action

  • reflection

  • demonstration

 

A minimum of 50 hours of service learning experiences is required where students will:

  • Address the 5 learning outcomes

  • Produce a service learning portfolio that includes evidence and reflections (steps 4 and 5) on service learning experiences

  • Students will look for opportunities to link service learning experiences to their CP course work like, for example, social entrepreneurship.

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Language Development Course

The ability to communicate in more than one language is essential to the IB’s concept of an international education. The Language Development course encourages students to improve their proficiency in a language other than their best language.

 

To review the Language Development Course Syllabus click here

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The options include, but are not limited to:

  • a school-designed course

  • an external provider of language development

  • an online language course

  • a school-monitored self-directed language study.

 

Over the course of more than 50 hours of course work, the Language Development programme will be designed to develop students’ linguistic abilities through:

  • oral communication

  • visual interpretation

  • reading comprehension

  • writing skills

 

The most important considerations in deciding on the Language Development path that students will take are that:

  • the language studied is not the student’s best language

  • language development should be a challenging educational experience

  • language development should have a clear purpose for students and, if possible, connected to a student’s career-related studies.

 

CP students are required to maintain and complete a language portfolio to document their learning activities and provide evidence of language engagement and development. Students will update the language portfolio throughout the course and their Language Development teacher will check and discuss the language portfolio with students regularly.

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