International Baccalaureate
The IB Annual Theme of Growth emerges as a central theme across the various IB subject groups, highlighting both the challenges and potential for personal, social, and intellectual development.
IB English Language and Literature explores growth through adversity, often reflecting hope amid cynicism, and examining social and cultural growth, as well as the difference between static and dynamic characters.
IB French, Latin and Spanish focus on identity, exploring how individual development is shaped by pivotal life experiences and transformations, and in some cases by scientific and technological progress.
IB Geography and IB History emphasize growth through changes over time, such as population trends, progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, and conceptual development in spatial thinking, with IB History highlighting continuity, causation, and significance.
In IB Biology and IB Chemistry, growth is discussed in relation to reaction rates and crystal formation.
IB Mathematics examine models of population and financial growth, exponential growth and growth with exposure to sunlight.
IB Music and IB Visual Arts concentrate on personal growth: with music fostering self-reflection and resilience; and in visual arts documenting technical growth as well as effective communication and development of ideas and concepts.
Across all IB subjects, including Creativity, Activity, Service and the Extended Essay, growth is recognized as a nuanced, non-linear journey essential to student learning and broader human experience.
As IB teachers, our goal is to collaborate and connect on interdisciplinary themes and units. This year, we decided as a team to collaborate on an Annual Theme. That theme is “GROWTH”, and how the aspects of growth weave and intersect throughout all of our IB courses. Throughout this year we will regularly connect with other IB teachers in different disciplines on how we’re integrating this theme into our classes.
GHS IB Teachers 2024-2025
