IB Community Blog

In this blog, we speak with Hanna Olofsson, an IB Career-related Programme (CP) alumna, who reflects on her IB journey, the value of practical learning, and how she got a head start in her career path since graduating from the CP.

Dr Dimitrina Trendafilova from UWC Adriatic, Italy, reflects on how curiosity and creativity can be nurtured in schools and shares examples of how science concept can be conceived in a creative way

From August 2023, Diploma Programme (DP) teachers will need to ensure they are using the recently published biology subject guide (first assessment 2025).  To mark the launch of the new subject guide, we asked an educator who was involved in the development of the curriculum to speak about the course and how the key updates […]

Dr Dimitrina Trendafilova from UWC Adriatic, Italy, reflects on how curiosity and creativity can be nurtured in schools and shares examples of how science concept can be conceived in a creative way

Matt Glanville, Head of Assessment Principles and Practice at the IB, shares his views on the short-term impact that new artificial intelligence (AI) technology will have on IB assessments and how it could change education as we know it in the long-term.

Earlier this year a study led by the IB and Harding High School was selected by HundrED as one of the most impactful education innovations in formative assessments in the HundrED Spotlight “Formative Assessment: Improving Learning for Every Child”. Read more in this blog.

In 2020, the International Baccalaureate (IB), together with the Jacobs Foundation, the Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment (OUCEA) and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), embarked on a journey to explore the skills of creativity and curiosity across all four IB programmes.

We spoke with Simon Clark from Discovery School in Mansfield, Ohio on providing staff members with the opportunity to move through the inquiry process in a similar way to their students.

Three IB educators from around the globe have shared tips for fellow educators and for students on how to uphold academic integrity in the classroom and during assessments.

Until March 2022, it was not possible for students to study the entire Diploma Programme online. Hear from just a few of the students from King’s InterHigh who are learning with the IB in this new innovative way.

The core is essentially the heart of the IB Diploma Programme. To highlight the significance of the core, Trapti Tivedi, Aditya Sil and Ilina Shah from Overseas Family School (OFS), Singapore have attempted to make the purpose and connections in the DP core more explicit.

Bhakti Ahire, Middle Years Programme interdisciplinary unit (IDU) coordinator and design department coordinator at International Sharing School, Taguspark, Portugal shares her school’s insightful experience of organising an immersive performance.