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The IB Career-related Program at SVHS
The IB Career-related Program at SVHS
Practical Real World Skills with Academic Rigor
To prepare students for the 21st century, the IB has developed the IB Career-related Program (IB CP). The IB CP provides the basis for effective collaboration in the workplace, additional training in the career-related field, as well as improved mobility and and flexibility in one's employment. The IB CP offers a learning and authentic assessment program that promotes access to an IB education, responsibility for one's own actions, skills development, and reflection of life experiences and self-esteem through meaningful achievement.
In the IB CP, students continue their SVHS Career program, while taking 2 IB DP/CP courses, IB Personal & Professional Skills course, and completing the Reflective Project, Language Development, and Service Learning.
Overview of the IB CP.mp4Overview of the IB CP Video
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Special Features of the IB CP
Special Features of the IB CP
Personal and Professional Skills (PPS) - required interdisciplinary course intended to stimulate critical reflection that seeks to bridge the gap between practical and knowledge skills while promoting self-awareness and cross-cultural connections
Service Learning (SL) - allows students to share their energies and talents while developing awareness, concern, and the ability to work collaboratively with others with a goal of developing of educating and developing the whole person and fostering more compassionate citizens.
Reflective Project (RP) - offers the opportunity to investigate an ethical dilemma associated with a career-related study and acquaints students with the kind of independent research skills expected beyond high school.
Language Development (LD) - allows student to expand their awareness of cultural diversity through another language.
Why IB CP?
Why IB CP?
A 2017 study published in the Journal of Vocational Education and Training examined the patterns of higher education enrollment, destinations, and persistence of all CP graduates from secondary schools in the US between 2013 and 2015 and found the following:
CP graduates enroll and persist in universities at higher rates than the national average
They tend to major in high-earning oriented fields such as: engineering (18%), business (17%), and health sciences (15%)
CP graduates persist in their higher education at higher rates than the national average
93% of CP graduates at 4-year institutions persisted for one year, as compared to 82% nationally in 2014
Once CP graduated enrolled in 89% returned for their sophomore year, which is 17% higher than the national average (72% in 2014)
CP graduates attend selective higher education institutions
Of the CP graduates that chose four-year institutions, more than half (55%) enrolled at an university ranked by Barron's Selectivity Index as "very competitive" or better
Graduates of the IB CP across the world
"...The IB CP is more focused on the career path that I have chosen, so I felt it would give me a head start on my peers."
"It has given me the opportunity to have real-life experiences, such as giving me the chance to do an internship as the Four Seasons."
"I believe that my CP qualification helped me to land a place at my university. I'd recommend it to other students who know what they want to do from an early age."
The IB CP has also given me the chance to become a leader and taught me a lot of the skills I need.."
Prepares students for an ever-changing world of work
IB CP in the News!
IB CP featured in Forbes!
"The Career-related Programme has taken the important step of integrating college preparation with career readiness. It combines the academic rigor of the IB DP with the development of specific employment-related competencies, showing that both aims can co-exist and be served within one curriculum.
That combo offers substantial postsecondary educational benefits to graduates. A 2018 study examined college enrollment and persistence patterns for all CP graduates from high schools in the U.S. between 2013 and 2015. It found that CP graduates enroll in college at higher rates (81%) than do all high school graduates nationally (68%). The study also revealed that CP graduates had higher first-year college persistence than did all high school graduates (89% versus 72%, respectively).
A more recent study on the graduating class of 2016
showed similar CP benefits. For example:
Compared to the national postsecondary enrollment rate of 64%, this group of CP graduates had an enrollment rate of 72%.
CP graduates enrolled more often than the national cohort at four-year institutions (55% vs. 43%).
CP graduates averaged an 81% first-to-second-year persistence rate, compared to the national rate of 72%.
CP graduates completed their degree in six years at higher rates than the national average (77% compared to 68%)."
Check out this IB CP Alum from Ann Arbor Public Schools!
2020 Huron graduate says the
IB Career-related Program changed his life,
made him the man he is today
Darryl Phillips credits the program & staff for his growing success as an entrepreneur/restaurant manager/first-generation college student
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