In 2018, JBS introduced character education to further strengthen IB's educational philosophy. In November 2020, JBS, as the first school outside the UK, received the Quality Certification Award from the Character Education Association. Character education teaches to acquire and strengthen positive character traits (or virtues), which are crucial for achieving the highest potential in life. Cultivating good character is the foundation for achieving a comprehensive life and a prosperous society. Therefore, prosperity is the ultimate goal of character education.
As of September 2022, JBS has become a member of KiVa, an anti bullying program developed by the University of Turku in Finland, aimed at further supporting our efforts to establish positive relationships among students and provide a safe and positive campus atmosphere. The course will begin teaching in September 2023.
The methods of JBS to promote physical and mental health have been further elaborated in the following aspects: the school's vision, mission, and core values.
Vision: To become a school with upright conduct, continuous improvement, and outstanding performance.
Mission: To ignite the passion, goals, and curiosity of students. Promote well-being within our community. Provide highly anticipated IB education with innovation, international awareness, and inclusiveness.
Responsibility, Respect, Wisdom, and Perseverance
Definition of JBS's mission and core values:
● Happiness: promotes self-awareness, self-control, empathy, social skills, and personal responsibility.
Innovation: promoting critical thinking; Communication; Collaboration; And the ability to creatively solve problems.
● High expectations: improving learners' resilience; The ability to reflect feedback and take action; Take pride in work; And the belief of transcendence
● Inclusion: promoting diverse learning communities; Understand and motivate each learner through differentiation.
International awareness: promoting a respectful attitude towards others.
I would like to personally welcome you and your family to Jumeira Baccalaureate School under the Taaleem Group. JBS is an IB school that has been accredited by the International School Council, awarded the Quality Mark by the Character Education Association, and offers Pearson BTEC courses.
The ultimate goal of education is to prepare students for a well-rounded life, enabling them to truly thrive and make positive contributions to society. Our method of promoting happiness is to cultivate positive personality traits in students. We achieve this through the IB learning skills approach, IB learner characteristics, and our own 4Rs (respect, responsibility, resilience, and resourcefulness), all of which are taught both inside and outside the course. Our employees should also develop positive personality traits in order to cultivate a good character. In addition, our service learning programs, extracurricular activities, field trips, (overseas) summer camps, and student leadership courses all aim to cultivate and strengthen positive personality traits that are necessary to achieve maximum potential in life.
We believe that our scientific approach is successful because graduates of our IB diploma and career related courses have achieved IB scores far above the global average. In addition, as an inclusive school, we take pride in excellent passing rates every year. Our students have been admitted to universities around the world, and many have even found employment in positions that did not exist a few years ago.
Our school also has some unique aspects (USP'S), including a comprehensive French A course designed for native speakers, allowing them to learn language and literature courses based on their own family curriculum; A firm commitment to Arabic language learners, including IB and Ministry of Education courses, as well as inclusive education programs for students who are unable to enter mainstream schools.
JBS is a unique school, not only because of the content we provide, but also because we are an international community composed of 85 different nationalities, and parents are partners in all of our work. We know that our website can only provide you with a glimpse of the comprehensive education provided. Therefore, we warmly invite you to personally visit the school and learn about the excellent facilities we provide; Experience a positive atmosphere; And understand how we can stimulate young thinking, cultivate them to become confident and empathetic learners, enable them to successfully and effectively contribute to society, and become responsible citizens.
Richard Drew
IB's Mission
The International Diploma Program aims to cultivate curious, knowledgeable, and caring young people who help create a better and more peaceful world through cross-cultural understanding and respect. To this end, the organization collaborates with schools, governments, and international organizations to develop challenging international education and rigorous assessment plans. These courses encourage students from all over the world to become active and empathetic lifelong learners who understand that others, despite their differences, can still be right.
JBS is a fully authorized IB World School that is certified to provide IB Primary Curriculum (PYP), IB Secondary Curriculum (MYP), Diploma Curriculum (DP), and Career related Curriculum (CP) for students from kindergarten to 12th grade.
IB Diploma Program (DP)
The core extension thesis of the diploma program requires students to participate in independent research by delving into issues related to one of the DP subjects they are currently studying. The World Research Extension Paper option allows students to focus on a topic of global significance, and they study the topic from the perspective of at least two DP projects.
Knowledge theory has developed a coherent learning method that unifies disciplines. In this course on critical thinking, students explore the essence of knowledge and deepen their understanding of knowledge as a human construct.
Creativity, Activities, and Services (CAS) involve students in a range of activities and academic research throughout the entire diploma program. Creativity encourages students to participate in art and creative thinking. The activity aims to cultivate a healthy lifestyle through physical exercise. Community services provide tools for new learning with academic value. The three aspects of CAS promote the personal and interpersonal development of students through experiential learning, and enable a journey of self discovery.
Each subject group offers different courses, and students must choose the first five groups of each subject, as well as the arts or second subjects in groups 1 to 5.
Why choose a diploma course?
Students take the written test at the end of the DP and are graded by an external IB examiner. Students are still completing assessment tasks in school, which are initially graded by teachers and then hosted by external hosts or directly sent to external examiners.
The score range for each course is from 1 (minimum) to 7 (maximum). Students can also earn an additional score of up to three points due to their comprehensive grades in knowledge theory and extended papers. Diplomas are awarded to students who score at least 24 points, but must achieve a certain minimum level of performance throughout the course and satisfactorily participate in creative, action, and service requirements. The maximum total score that DP students can achieve is 45 points.
IB Primary School
The International Baccalaureate Program (PYP) aims to build on children's innate curiosity. This course is aimed at children aged 3 to 12 and focuses on cultivating their comprehensive development as explorers, both in the classroom and in the outside world. Students participate in four to six "exploration units" every year.
To ensure that children acquire a broad knowledge base, the exploration unit is developed under six "organizational themes":
Who are we
● Our location and time
How the world operates
How we organize ourselves
How we express ourselves
● Shared Earth
The six disciplines of Chinese language, social research, individual, social and sports, mathematics, science and technology, and art are included in the exploration unit, providing interdisciplinary learning methods. In the final year of PYP, students participated in the PYP exhibition to showcase their development.
The characteristics of IB PYP are:
● Addressing students' academic, social, and emotional health issues
Encourage students to cultivate independence and take responsibility for their own learning
● Support students in their efforts to understand the world and operate comfortably within it
Assist students in establishing personal values as the foundation for the development and flourishing of international consciousness.
PYP focuses on the development of the entire child as an explorer, whether in the classroom or in the outside world.
PYP is the first of four IB education programs. It lays a solid foundation for other IB courses, MYP, DP, and IBCP.
IB Middle School Department
After completing the initial stage, JBS students enter the IB Secondary School Program (MYP) to prepare them for the IB Diploma Program or IB Career related courses. MYP is available from 6th to 10th grade (students aged 11 to 16). MYP aims to help students develop their personal understanding, emerging self-awareness, and sense of responsibility in the community. Our MYP teacher will pay appropriate attention to:
Teaching and learning in context. When students have a background and interconnected learning experience, their learning outcomes are best when it comes to their lives and the world they experience. Utilizing the global context, MYP students explore human identity, global challenges, and the significance of having international awareness.
● Conceptual understanding. Concepts are large conceptual regions that have relevance in specific disciplines and interdisciplinary contexts. MYP students use concepts as tools to explore issues and ideas of personal, local, and global significance, and comprehensively examine knowledge.
● Learning Methods (ATL). A unified mainline that runs through all MYP subject groups, learning methods provide a foundation for independent learning and encourage the application of their knowledge and skills in unfamiliar environments. Developing and applying these skills helps students learn how to learn.
Service is action (community service). Action (learning while doing, learning while experiencing) and service have always been common values in the IB community. When students apply the knowledge they have learned both inside and outside the classroom, they take action. IB learners strive to become caring members of the community, demonstrating a commitment to service and bringing positive impact to the lives and environment of others. Service as Action is a component of this plan, especially in the MYP community project.
Language and identity. Students of IB secondary school curriculum must learn at least two languages (language instructions and other selected languages). Learning to communicate in various ways is the foundation for their development of cross-cultural understanding and the key to their identity recognition.
It provides a learning framework that encourages students to become creative, critical, and reflective thinkers. High school programs emphasize intellectual challenges and encourage students to establish connections between traditional subject learning and the real world. It promotes the development of communication, cross-cultural understanding, and global engagement skills, which are crucial for life in the 21st century.
The secondary school project consists of eight subject groups, integrated through five interactive areas, providing a global background for learning.
Students must learn at least two languages (as part of their multilingualism), humanities, science, mathematics, art, sports, and technology. In the final year, students will also engage in an independent personal project to showcase their skills and understanding development. Then, the teacher breaks down the eight subjects into interactive areas.
Research has shown that students who participate in IB secondary school courses:
● Establish confidence in managing one's own learning
● Learn while doing, connecting the classroom with the larger world
● Superior to non IB students in key academic skills
Continuously achieving greater success in the IB Diploma course exams
● Grow strong in a positive school culture, allowing them to participate and have the motivation to excel
● Cultivate an understanding of global challenges and strive to become responsible citizens
Developing children's universal skills and educating philosophy beyond limitations
JBS supports the concept of education transcending classroom limitations. Therefore, we have a variety of exciting sports, creative, cultural, and aesthetic activities.
In the current climate, the health and safety of the JBS community is our top priority, and the school is taking all preventive measures to ensure the health and safety of every person entering the campus.
Developing skills beyond core courses
We collaborate with over 20 top colleges in Dubai to encourage students to participate in extracurricular activities such as academic, artistic, performance, language, design, and sports. All of these activities revolve around customized learning journeys and outcomes, and students may develop their skills for the activity, as well as a range of increasingly relevant general skills such as leadership, collaboration, resilience, perseverance, responsibility, and commitment
These skills play a crucial role in creating a positive and nurturing environment, which is crucial for students to succeed academically and in their lives beyond JBS. Participating in extracurricular colleges has successfully helped students enter some of the world's top universities. It is obvious that more and more universities not only value students' academic performance, but also show great interest in the extracurricular activities that applicants participate in. People have noticed that measuring an applicant's ability to complete some of the more challenging degree courses in university focuses on resilience and perseverance.
Example of courses offered by JBS at the Economic Commission for Africa:
Our new EAS course is divided into three different semesters, allowing students to participate in a more diverse range of activities throughout the year.
All external suppliers providing courses at JBS have carefully considered their policies and preventive measures to ensure the safe operation of the courses and the safety of students, as well as how each course can help students grow and improve their confidence, knowledge, health, and well-being.
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