IB Summer Institute

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Extra Information

Choosing your subjects

It may be most important to focus on your weaker subjects, but it may be more important to ensure that you get high grades in key subjects which are important for your future study. To make a choice, you may want to review your current class work, or perhaps discuss different options with your teachers at school. When you have chosen, tick the appropriate boxes on the application form. You can also use the application form to indicate any special subject areas where you feel that you need extra help, so that we can adapt the study programme for each class, addressing the needs of all the students. The application needs to be completed and returned to St. Clare's as early as possible.

Our teachers and classes

Teachers are selected for their academic qualifications and expertise, successful teaching experience, and ability to relate to young people from a variety of different cultural and educational backgrounds. Some are members of the permanent St. Clare's teaching staff, and others come from other IB schools in the UK and other countries. A number will also be examiners for the IB exams. Classes are small and informal. Just as students have different learning styles, so teaching styles differ, and students at St. Clare's experience a variety or teaching methods and approaches. The emphasis in all our teaching is enabling students to take increasing responsibility for their own learning: to learn how to learn. This makes learning more enjoyable while preparing students for work and study at university, and for later life.

Work outside scheduled class hours

The purpose of your time with St. Clare's is to ensure that you will be better prepared for your work when you return home. All our students should ensure that they are prepared for their classes. You will be set various different tasks to complete out of class. These may take up to two hours each day. In addition, it is good general discipline to review the work which you have covered each day, to ensure that you maximize the amount which you will retain. Some tasks may need you to work on your own, and other tasks may require you to work with other students, either in pairs or in a small team.

Reports and Course Certificates

Written reports are prepared for each class you take. You will receive a summary of the work covered in your class, with some notes about your own level of achievement and personal contribution to the class. You will also receive an attendance certificate for the course as a whole. The reports and certificate will be available for collection at the end of the summer school.

Typical Timetable

For young adults at St Clare's International College
Student Activities Programme, Summer 2003 (sample timetable)

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