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Course Guide
2023/24
 

Academic Support
(Grades 9-12; 1 semester; 0.5 credit)

Academic Support provides a small-class environment to learn skills that aid towards autonomy and proficiency in their learning, with purposeful and guided strategies to compensate for difficulties. Individual and group lessons include topics ranging from writing, reading comprehension, math, study and test-taking skills, to exploring how the mind processes and integrates information where actual learning takes place. Students work on self-directed strategies and implement tools to aid them in meeting their academic goals.  Academic Support class regularly collaborates with other Academic courses to facilitate teaching and learning.  Compensatory accommodations are a regular part of this class for students with Individual Education Plans.    

Academic Support IB
(Grades 11-12; 1 semester; 0.5 credit)

Academic Support IB provides a small-class environment for students who are enrolled in IB classes to deepen skills in expressive language and executive functioning; and in efficiently learning vast amounts of content, partnering with them and providing explicit feedback as they employ skills in self-directed learning.  Diploma candidates  respond to feedback, develop their own learning plans and goals, and integrate acquired skills in processing and integrating information for integrated learning. Academic Support IB regularly collaborates with other Academic courses to facilitate teaching and learning.  Compensatory accommodations are a regular part of this class for students with Individual Education Plans.     

English for Academic Purposes 9/10
(Grades 9 & 10; 1 semester; 0.5 credit)

EAP provides a small-class environment where students work to develop their academic English for reading, writing, speaking and listening within the context of High School and in preparation for the IB Diploma Programme.  Students are supported in their studies across the High School curriculum and learn about the particular benefits and challenges of being multilingual learners. The class thrives on community participation and students are encouraged to contribute their knowledge and skills to support their peers.  Students focus on the use of metacognition and self-directed learning in order to create their own academic English Language goals for improvement.

English for Academic Purposes IB
(Grades 11-12; 1 semester; 0.5 credit)

EAP IB provides a small class environment where students work to develop their Academic English for reading, writing, speaking and listening within the context of High School and the IB Diploma Programme.  The class thrives on community participation and students are encouraged to contribute their knowledge and skills to support their peers.  Students focus on the use of metacognition and self-directed learning in order to manage the requirements of the IB Diploma Programme and to create their own Academic and English Language goals for improvement.