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International Baccalaureate (IB) Programme

International Baccalaureate Middle Year Program (IB MYP) is a part of International Baccalaureate (IB) continuum, ultimately leading to IB Diploma Programme (IB DP). There are over 5000 IB World schools globally and the numbers are increasing rapidly. In India there are 185 schools as on date.

IB courses are recognized for their research oriented and ever evolving learning approach. International Baccalaureate Diploma is highly recognized as an entry level requirement in the Under Graduate programmes by reputed global universities.

IB MYP

IB MYP curriculum is applicable for students in the age group of 11 to 16 years. IB MYP syllabus is woven around Six Global Contexts, which are considered as essential differentiating features.

  • Scientific and technical innovation
  • Identities and relationships
  • Orientation in space and time
  • Cultural and personal expression
  • Globalization and sustainability
  • Fairness and development

They are not generally taught as separate courses, rather as themes that are reflected in all subjects through unit based questions.

IB MYP subject groups:

1. Language and Literature

2. Language Acquisition

3. Individuals and Societies

4. Sciences

5. Mathematics

6. Arts

7. Physical and Health Education

8. Design

IB DP

IB DP programme (Equivalent to grade 11 and 12) is internationally recognized qualification for higher education. It follows the same six themes as mentioned in IB MYP programme. IB DP course is applicable for students in the age group of 16-19 years. To clear the IB diploma programme, a candidate must comply with three core requirements, in addition to passing the subject examinations. These core requirements are,

Extended Essay (ES);

Theory of Knowledge (TOK) and

Creativity, Activity & Service (CAS).

IB DP subject groups

Group 1- Studies in Language and Literature

Group 2- Language Acquisition

Group 3 – Individuals and Society

Group 4 – Sciences

Group 5 – Mathematics

Group 6 – The Arts

YesmindZ - Bridging The Gap

IB MYP and IB DP curriculum stresses on application-based research-orientation learning. English Language and Literature courses – forming part of Group 1 & Group 2 subjects - as well as IB TOK - forming part of core requirement - often becomes a challenging task for students all over the world. Therefore need a scaffolding.

In sync with the educational philosophy of IB courses, YesmindZ offers IB MYP and IB DP classes that helps students to acquire the desired learner profile through tailored learning schedule. The teaching methodology of YesmindZ trains the students with appropriate psychological framework for holistic development along with required subject experties.

YesmindZ offers IB MYP and IB DP classes for students needing support in,

1. IB MYP Language and Literature

2. IB DP English A Literature

3. IB DP English A Language and Literature

4. IB DP Theory of Knowledge (TOK) and

5. IB DP Mentoring in Extended Essay (EE)

A. IB MYP Language and Literature

What do they study?

The objective of IB MYP Language and Literature courses is to work on six skill areas,

  • Listening
  • Speaking
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Viewing
  • Presenting

The approach is built on inquiry based learning that aims to support students’ understanding by providing them with opportunities to investigate, take action and reflect on their learning.

At YesmindZ, we adopt CLIL method to develop and deliver course plan that helps strengthening the knowledge of the students. We act as a powerful learning support to fill up the gap between the acquired knowledge and subject requirement.

B. IB DP English A Language and Literature

What do they study?

“In this course, students will study a wide range of literary and non-literary texts in a variety of media. By examining communicative actions across literary form and textual type alongside appropriate secondary readings. Students will investigate the nature of language itself and the ways in which it shapes influenced by identity and culture. Approaches to study in the course are meant to be wide-ranging and can include literary theory, socio-linguistics, media studies and critical discourse analysis among others”.

Teaching and Assessment help for IB DP English A Language SL / HL – Guidance are,

  • Internal Assessment (IA)
  • Individual Orals (IO)
  • Paper 1
  • Paper 2
  • HL Essay
  • Extended Essay (EE) in English

C. IB DP English A Literature

What do they study?

Students will focus exclusively on literary texts, adopting a variety of approaches to textual criticism. Students explore the nature of literature, the aesthetic function of literary language and textuality. They explore the relationship between literature and the world that highlights the global issue in the context. Also, it relevance in the present context.

Teaching and Assessment Help English A Literature – Guidance in,

  • Internal Assessment (IA)
  • Individual Orals (IO)
  • Paper 1
  • Paper 2
  • HL Essay
  • Extended Essay (EE)

D. IB Theory of Knowledge

Theory of Knowledge is a core element in the IBDP course that requires a mandatory passing result to acquire IB Diploma. The subject encourages to question our own knowledge and help discover the truth within the knowledge through various perspectives allowing students’ to develop their views on ‘Knowledge claims’ explore the issue in the knowledge. The course uses a combination of ways to know through the core (knowledge and knower) and optional themes (knowledge and technology, knowledge and language, knowledge and indigenous societies, knowledge and religion, knowledge and politics without any particular order and it revolves around-

Teaching and Assessment Help English A Literature – Guidance in,

1. Exploration of ways of knowing through – Perception, reason, emotion, language.

Areas of knowledge that include – Mathematics, The natural sciences, The human sciences, History, and The arts.

It explore perspectives to consider the fallacies and biases that exists in the construction or acquisition of knowledge. This helps to promote critical thinking and open-mindedness among students that shape the overall personality of them instilling international mindedness to apply their personal knowledge and shared knowledge formed in the global context.

Our guided approach helps the students to develop their thoughts within their own space. Our valuable mentoring encourages students to become confident in the subject and also find its utilitarian value in real world situations.

The areas of assessment help are –

  • IB TOK Essay
  • IB TOK Exhibition

E. Mentoring in Extended Essay (EE) for IB DP

IB DP Extended Essay is a self directed research work chosen by students in the subject that they opt for their majors in the university level. It culminates into preparation of a thesis for an essay of 4000 words. It is one of the most crucial activity that not only needs in-depth research work, but also a foolproof insightful structuring of thoughts and presentation skill, for which the guidance is provided relentlessly on Yesmindz.

Yesmindz Advantage

Yesmindz IB courses for English and TOK courses supplements the knowledge acquired by the students through academic institutions in all the above skill areas. The distinct advantages of Yesmindz classes that help in improving performance are,

  • Classes are taken online breaking geographical barriers,
  • Access to additional resources,
  • Access to students from different parts of world helps in enriching course content,
  • Critical review by expert,
  • Reaffirming the IB structured learning approach,
  • Continuous assessment and evaluation against criterion.

Joining formalities at Yesmindz

In order to maintain transparency and uniformity, YesmindZ follows a standard procedure as per the following stipulation.

Step I

i). Submission of application for admission using admission form available in our website. You may click the admission form to directly access it.

ii). The form requires the student to provide information relating to their studies, email and phone number of the student and parent. This is to ensure that all the related people in the student’s learning journey are accessible and on the same page. We ensure that information related to the student shall be used only for the purpose of admission in our classes.

Step II

Once the admission application is received and accepted, we communicate a mutually agreed date for Free Demo Session (30 minutes) to evaluate the student’s current requirement. Based on the Demo class, the decision is taken on admission.

Step III

Acceptance of timeline: The student, parent need to accept the available time slots at Yesmindz

Payment of fee:

1. We enroll students for minimum of 6 hours and maximum of 8 hours classes per month.

2. The standard rate per class ranges from US$ 12 to US$ 25 based. Specific fees to be finalised with the parent/ student prior to admission.