These are the reasons to study an International Baccalaureate program in Ecuador

It is an education with international training, since the contents are standardized worldwide. This allows them to enter directly and without difficulties to foreign or national universities to which their graduates apply. Therefore, the importance of studying an International Baccalaureate program during school and college life.

There are more than ten reasons to opt for the International Baccalaureate (BI or IB, for its abbreviation in English) from the first student years.

The International Baccalaureate Organization (OBI), created in Switzerland in 1968, is responsible for the curriculum, exams, among other guidelines, in addition to granting authorizations (after processes that are met and visits by IB delegations) so that students schools teach their IB programs, aimed at students from 3 to 19 years of age.

here part of the reasons for choosing he study of International Baccalaureate:

Critical thinking and skill development starting in preschool

“The main reason is that the younger the students, the more susceptible they are to an adequate training process,” says Rodolfo Chang Hi Fong, rector of the Copol Polytechnic Private Educational Unit, the first in the Costa region to have continuous of the three International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes, spanning the Early School Years, Middle Years and High School.

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Based on the experience they have had, the Copol authorities highlight the positive of apply the IB methodology from the age of three (preschool).

“The basic methodological principles of the International Baccalaureate (IB) get children used to obtaining information through inquiry, to have critical reasoning, and to develop social skills through collaborative work. All of this is incorporated into them and becomes part of their way of coping with student challenges at school, then at college, at the university, and in life itself,” explains Chang.

International-minded: reflective, creative, autonomous, inquisitive

“The International Baccalaureate Diploma Program fosters international-mindedness, allows our students to adopt a learning attitude and be good communicators, tolerant, inquisitive, facing up this way global challenges of the current world”, says Patricia Ayala de Coronel, rector of the Samborondón Pan-American High School.

Diversity of subjects to choose from and highly qualified teachers

Students can choose from the range of subjects offered by IB schools.

The American College of Guayaquil, for example, has a diversified portfolio of subjects both at a higher level and at a secondary level, segmented into three concentrations: Sciences, Business Sciences and Communication Sciences. “In this way, the individual interests of the students are satisfied based on their potential university careers,” says Whymper León Kuffó, coordinator of the American International Baccalaureate Diploma Program.

Thus, among the subjects that students can choose in the Americano are Physics, Chemistry, Biology (Experimental Sciences), Business Management, Economics, History and Environmental Systems (Business Sciences) and Global Politics, History, Environmental Systems and Visual Arts (Business Sciences). Humanities and Communication), which are complemented by subjects common to the three concentrations such as Language and Literature, English B, Mathematics Analysis and Approaches or Mathematics Applications and Interpretations, León details.

To this is added the highly qualified staff to impart the methodology of the IB programs, stands out.

Respect for different ways of thinking

“The International Baccalaureate program fosters in our students a inquiry mindset, open to respect different ways of thinking, fostering the desire to learn and generating significant life experiences through its different programs such as the Middle Years Program (PAI or MYP), which allows them to develop skills using teaching and learning approaches”, says Jorge Balseca, coordinator of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program and director of Ecomundo’s Upper Basic and Unified General Baccalaureate.

A kind of pre-university for those in high school

The International Baccalaureate in the last years of the Diploma Program (PD or DP) has a strong content concentrationwhy It is constituted in a kind of pre-universitysays Rodolfo Chang Hi Fong, rector of Copol. However, he adds, the formation of the necessary attitudes to face it successfully comes from an adaptation process that they experience from their early years.

“If the student enters this demanding program directly in the Baccalaureate, without any preparation, they will have problems adapting, but being with the methodology since they were three years old (of age) will not be anything new,” says Chang.

IB students excel in their professional career

International Baccalaureate programs promote permanent innovationsince their subject guides are renewed every five years.

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Jorge Balseca, from the Ecomondo campus, comments that this particular educational unit also has the IB Diploma Program (for the second and third years of high school), which is a much more disciplinary program that promotes concept-based learning.

“The students acquire all these skills and abilities in his student life that help them excel in their career pathbecoming citizens of the world”, adds Balseca, coordinator of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program and director of Ecomundo’s Upper Basic and Unified General Baccalaureate.

Lifelong learning and range of opportunities

The IB subjects are correlated and allow the study topics to be analyzed in an inter and transdisciplinary way. “In addition, in the subjects of group 4 of the Diploma Program and in the personal project of the Middle Years Program (MYP), our students learn by doing and experiencing”, comments Patricia Ayala de Coronel, rector of the Samborondón Pan-American High School.

The programs of the International Baccalaureate are always at the forefront of educational practicessince they are constantly revised.

“Obtaining the International Baccalaureate Diploma opens up a range of many opportunities for high school graduates, who adopt an attitude of learning throughout their lives,” says Rector Ayala.

Career plan and community projects

With the IB, a career plan is developed with the support of the Department of Student Counseling (DECE), explains Whymper León, coordinator of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program of the American College of Guayaquil.

“The comprehensive education of the school allows students to undertake community projects through the 13 existing clubs, artistic and sports activities, which contribute to the better development of the profile of graduates. This means that around 20% of them show interest in entering universities abroad, with successful admission processes”, explains the coordinator.

El Americano de Guayaquil was one of the pioneer schools in offering the IB program since August 1985, which is backed by experience, as well as qualified personnel to teach the methodology of IB programs, its teachers emphasize. (YO)