Hangzhou Parents' Most Asked IB Course, Explained in One Article!

Recently, many parents consulting about international school selection have asked what the IB curriculum really is. The IB curriculum is an international education system. Usually, when we discuss IB, it mainly refers to the last two years of high school, which is the IBDP. The grades from this stage can be directly used to apply to foreign universities. To put it comprehensively, IB includes the PYP for elementary school, MYP for middle school, and IBDP for high school.

Why is IB often called 'holistic education'? Simply put, it's about cultivating children to become more complete individuals. Besides the ability to learn knowledge, other abilities should not be neglected. It aims to foster 'complete children' with their own ideas: capable of artistic creation, passionate about sports fields, proactive in community volunteering, like energetic little entrepreneurs—having their own opinions and loving to take initiative, not just robots that follow instructions.

Nowadays, many children are too tied down by grades, even unable to grasp future planning? They have no ideas or plans for life and the future. IB places more emphasis on cultivating children's time management and future planning, allowing them to have independent thoughts. The difficulty of IB lies in this: it doesn't force-feed knowledge but pushes children to think for themselves about direction and make plans, turning 'I have to learn' into 'I want to learn.' Children who can get through IB truly have strong self-motivation and independent thinking abilities.