Sandra Pérez Jiménez Pérez, Director General of the Attendis Educational GroupThe main doubts about the International Baccalaureatea comprehensive and global educational approach, emerging at Gaztelueta, which prepares students to face the challenges of the 21st century.
Is the International Baccalaureate at Gaztelueta an exclusively Baccalaureate modality? Well, the truth is that it is a myth. The International Baccalaureate covers a series of programmes which is the continuum of what until now has been known as the International Baccalaureate, from the age of 3 to the 2nd year of the Baccalaureate. Why does it have the nomenclature of the Baccalaureate? Because the first programme that has been developed and implemented over the more than 50 years of the International Baccalaureate has been the Diploma Programme at the Baccalaureate stage, but there is also the PYP programme in Primary and the MYP programme for Secondary.
Does the International Baccalaureate at Gaztelueta fundamentally change the way we learn? This is a reality that is also evident shortly after incorporating the IB methodology. Learning is much more meaningful, learning for real life. It is therefore lasting learning, not only for the short term, but for the medium and long term.
Are you studying for the International Baccalaureate? entirely in English? This is a myth. The term international refers to the international mentality that is worked on in the International Baccalaureate, but it does not oblige you to teach the Baccalaureate in English. Each school decides which subject is taught in English or Basque as a result of its trilingualism plan, which has nothing to do with the IB programme.
International Baccalaureate results already show great success around the world. The results of the International Baccalaureate are evidence of worldwide success and, as I said before, they have been contrasted throughout the more than 50 years that this methodology has been implemented in more than 2500 countries around the world.
Will International Baccalaureate students at Gaztelueta be able to access public universities? Absolutely. IB students are much better prepared and trained to do a good EBAU and gain access to public universities. As I said, learning is not only for the short term, it prepares you and trains you very well not only for access to any university, but also to make much more and better use of the university years.
With the International Baccalaureate, Gaztelueta is clearly strengthening its Internationalisation programme. Obviously. One of the objectives of the International Baccalaureate is to open the mind to a global mentality. An international mentality in which the IB network itself puts at our service the experience and practices of all those schools in the world that have implemented this system so that we can work in a cooperative way and so that teamwork can flow and increase and broaden that vision of the world and that vision of the world and that vision of the world. international mindset we are talking about.
