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What is the IB Diploma Program?

IB Diploma Program (IBDP) at Gokkusagi Schools prepares the students for an international career and ensures that they have a place in the world. IBDP students are accepted by the world’s leading universities. International Baccalaureate, which offers education with the mission of making the world a more livable place raises leaders and versatile global citizens who know the most spoken languages in the world. With the International Baccalaureate Program, Gokkusagi Schools aim to raise well-equipped and sensitive young people who research, question, and help create a better and more peaceful world with intercultural understanding and respect.

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What is the IB Diploma Program?

What are the Benefits of IB Education to Students of Gokkusagi Schools?

Students with an IB Diploma have a high chance of being accepted to the most prestigious universities in the world.
It creates international awareness. Students studying in two languages achieve high success in high school and university.
It encourages critical thinking. In addition to the ability to analyze and interpret, IB students gain the ability to generate new ideas and evaluate events from different perspectives.
It provides students with features that meet the needs of the changing and developing world.
The IB does not only teach for exams. Students are prepared for life with their experiments, presentations, articles they wrote, social responsibility projects they implemented and more.

International Baccalaureate

Schools around the world try to become an IB World School and offer the IB diploma program to their students. IB Schools successfully complete an intensive and globally consistent process to provide an exceptional IB education. The process of obtaining approval from the International Baccalaureate is a challenging, rewarding and valuable educational journey for the school and the school community. The benefits of gaining approval continue after the process is completed, equipping every school with a roadmap for sustainable success. As a result of this process, wherever the IB School is located in the world, parents and students are extremely confident in their education because every IB World School:

Adheres to the IB philosophy, which focuses on an international perspective,
Has a strict and comprehensive curriculum that encourages the student’s curiosity and inquiry,
Has teachers, education leaders and school staff trained according to the IB Diploma program and its philosophy,
Has school pedagogical leaders and administrators who support IB programs and serve its mission,
Gokkusagi Schools, which gained the status of IB (International Baccalaureate) World School in May 2015 and took its place among the elite schools of the world, continue its journey of high quality education with firm steps.

It has a comprehensive plan for the sustainability and implementation of the IB Diploma Program

IB World Schools are evaluated periodically after approval from the IB and find themselves in continuous professional development. They benefit from a wide range of materials, regional and global social networks and opportunities. Schools that have been authorized by the IB organization to implement one or more of the IB programs are known as “IB World Schools”. These schools share the same mission as the IB to provide quality international education, support each other by taking an active role in all IB schools in the world, share their learning knowledge and experience, and devote themselves to the professional development of teachers.

What is the International Baccalaureate?

Continuing IB international education is a program of academic and personal attention designed for individuals aged 3-19. It challenges students to excel in their studies, courses and personal development. It aims to inspire through inquiry and discovery, promoting lifelong learning through empathy and enthusiasm. The IB strives to help schools develop well-rounded students who overcome challenges with optimism and open-mindedness, are confident in their own identities, make ethical decisions, care about the shared values of humanity, and are ready to apply what they have learned to the real world in complex and unpredictable situations. IB offers high quality international education programs that share a strong vision. IB education proceed by the values defined in the learner profile:

Focus on learners: IB’s student-centered programs foster healthy relationships, moral responsibility and personal challenge to challenges;
Focus on learners: IB’s student-centered programs foster healthy relationships, moral responsibility and personal challenge to challenges;
Works in a global context: IB programs increase understanding of languages and cultures and explore ideas and issues of global importance
Examines meaningful course content: IB diploma programs offer a comprehensive and balanced, conceptual and interconnected curriculum.
IB learners strive to be individuals who are inquirers, knowledgeable, thinkers, communicators, principled, open-minded, sensitive, risk-takers, balanced and reflective. These qualifications represent a broad array of human competencies and responsibilities that go beyond intellectual development and academic achievement.

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Gokkusagi Schools – IB DP Education

IB Diploma Program at Gokkusagi Schools allows students to choose courses according to the professions they want to be in their careers. It is a system that teaches the course subjects in depth. Gokkusagi Schools, one of the high schools that implement nearly 4000 Baccalaureate programs in 158 countries of the world; offer its graduates the chance to be accepted and study at more than 2050 of the world’s most distinguished universities. The biggest goal of the IB Program is to raise “well-rounded individuals”. Courses offered in this program include courses such as psychology, film, and global politics.

The program, which aims at individual learning, aims to raise balanced students while preparing an academic infrastructure at the university level with the opportunity to choose courses from 6 different subject groups in high school. The International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, which presents sports, physical activities, music, art and community service as a must; offers its students a versatile and balanced education.

Gokkusagi Schools are entitled to be an IB world school. With this responsibility, it is among the distinguished international schools of the world.

What is IB?

What IB?

The world’s most exclusive high school diplora program proven to develop 21st century skills

Approved by the Ministry of National Education

Academic research and writing skills with Extended Essay (EE)

More than 5580 IB World Schools in the world

Courses that provide in-depth learning based on application, research, synthesis, analysis and interpretation

Responsive and open-minded students that do community service

Distinguished and IB-certified teachers with continuous professional development training

Chance to learn a foreign language at mother tongue level

An essential element of the program is CAS (Creativity Activity Service).

Students who connect/communicate with the global and rapidly changing World

A curriculum that takes skills to the top; fair and rigorous assessment and evaluation system

Theory of Knowledge (TOK) course (where/how do I know what I claim to know?)

Courses that provide in-depth learning based on application, research, synthesis, analysis and interpretation

Alumni Comments

More than a six-course program, the IB trains you to be a person with a good personality. Coping with the challenges in IB allows you to adapt quickly to new systems. Your English improves tremendously and your interest in science increases. I passed the English proficiency exam at ITU by taking AA and started the first year without studying the preparatory class.

Mehmet Aksu

Civil engineering İstanbul Technical University

An education away from the classic high school teaching approach in the IB program taught me to develop my skills, manage my stress and workload. I have acquired critical thinking, strong analysis, and high-level academic writing skills to be able to immerse myself in academic discipline. My perception of scientific knowledge and processes has increased. The IB CAS process, helped me to think alternately, that is, to discover my own strengths and weaknesses.

BELAL HUSSAM

Industrial Product Design Bahçeşehir University

he IB program was challenging but definitely worth reading. It taught me how to make decisions, focus and manage my time effectively. I learned to work under stress and to reach the right information as quickly as possible. It is very useful for me in university right now. When I compare myself to other graduates, I see that my working and article writing skills are much better. Because IB forces us to step out of our comfort zone

LEILA SHAHEEN

Dentistry Medipol University İstanbul

During the IB math class, I discovered the influence of technology and mathematics on each other, the power of mathematics and the means of communication, which led me to choose the mathematics department at the university. I started to love sports and art with the IB CAS program, which aims to ensure a balanced life.

EMRE UFUK

Mathematical Engineering Yıldız Technical University İstanbul

While my friends at University complained about writing long articles, I realized that I myself had advanced considerably during my IB journey and that I could write easily at University. I’m about to finish 3rd year right now, and in a job interview here, I saw that the manager was very impressed with the CAS work I did in high school.

YUNUS EMRE ÇİÇEK

International Relations and Global Sciences Wroclaw University Poland

A statistics course in the Cambridge A-Level program raised my years at the university. The multi-national and multicultural classroom environment at Gökkuşağı Schools made it easier for me to adapt to the Netherlands and the University.

EKREM NACİ TAŞCIOĞLU

Business Management Radboud University Holland

To be honest, I had a hard time in IB at first because it was a new way of learning for me. We also had an online course during IB. Currently, there is a similar practice at the university. Thanks to the online skills I acquired in high school, I am progressing very comfortably in university

VELİ ŞİAR VELİOĞLU

Architecture Politecnico di Torino University Italy

The Cambridge A-Levels Mathematics and Physics courses I studied at Gokkusagi School gave me an easy start in the architecture department.

BERKAN ÇETİNBAĞ

Architecture, La Salle University of Ramon Llull Barcelona, Spain

During my first year at the university, I realised that the Mathematics and Science topics were same as the ones I studied in Cambridge A Levels programme at high school. I would definitely recommend the A-Levels program to those who want to study in the UK.

MEHMET EMİR DÖĞÜCÜ

University of Manchester, Aerospace Engineering

Experimental laboratory studies and reports I prepared in Chemistry and Biology courses for IB’s in-school assessment elements at Gökkuşağı Schools helped me a lot in my practice studies at the university; I managed to get an A+. When I first started IB, my English language skills were poor. At the end of the program, I got a student visa from the UK and was accepted by the university with a score of 7.5/9 in the IELTS exam.