Career-related Program
Career-related Program
I.B.’s newest curriculum — the Career-related Program — is developed specifically for students who want to engage in career-related learning while gaining transferable and lifelong skills. It combines the rigor of the Diploma Program with students’ interests in an I.B.-approved career-related study.
Students in the Career-related Program undertake a minimum of two I.B. Diploma Program courses, which provide the theoretical underpinning and academic rigor of the program. The career-related study further supports the program’s academic strength and provides practical, real-world approaches to learning. The core of the Career-related Program helps them to develop skills required for lifelong learning through four components: approaches to learning; community service; language development; and the culminating reflective project.
Program Features
- Two-year program for 11th and 12th graders
- Two+ I.B. Diploma classes
- Two-year career-related study
- Business Management
- Marketing
- Technology
- Military Science
- Culinary
- Many students can be accepted into a two-year HCPS ACE Tech Center program and also participate in the IB Career Program at HHS!
- The Career-related Program Core: Personal and Professional Skills; Community Engagement; Language and Cultural Studies; and the Reflective Project
- Students graduate with industry certification and I.B. Diploma certificates
- Offered at Henrico High School
- Graduates are college and career ready
IB Career Program Core
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Personal and professional skills is designed for students to develop attitudes, skills and strategies to be applied to personal and professional situations and contexts now and in the future.
In this course the emphasis is on skills development for the workplace, as these are transferable and can be applied in a range of situations.
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Community engagement offers opportunities for students to learn in, from, and with communities as well as to apply knowledge and skills acquired in other areas of learning.
In this component, students situate themselves in their community and identify, explore, and understand issues relevant to them and their communities, responding to them through engagement with communities.
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The reflective project is an in-depth body of work produced over an extended period of time and submitted towards the end of the CP. Through a reflective project, students identify, analyze, critically discuss, and evaluate an ethical issue arising from their career-related studies.
The reflective project is intended to promote high-level research, writing, and extended communication skills, intellectual discovery, and creativity.
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The language and cultural studies component invites students to better understand and expand their own linguistic and cultural repertoires, and imagine how they could further engage with a range of linguistic and cultural groups.
As partners in inquiry, students and teachers explore and reflect on their linguistic and cultural repertoires in the context of local and global communities.
