Starting in Middle School

In Middle School, the International Track or iTrack program prepares students to be successful in school and to be active, lifelong learners beyond the middle school years.

The International Track program provides students with a challenging curriculum that encourages practical connections between studies and the real world. It provides a framework of learning that encourages students to become creative, critical and reflective thinkers. It fosters the development of skills for communication, intercultural understanding and global engagement—essential qualities for young people who are becoming global leaders. 

The curriculum consists of 8 groups

• Language acquisition 
• Language and literature
• Individuals and societies 
• Sciences 
• Mathematics 
• Arts 
• Physical and health education 
• Design 

Student study is supported by a minimum of 50 hours of instruction per subject group in each academic year.

The curriculum focuses on 

• Teaching and learning in context.
  Students learn best when their learning experiences have context and are connected to their lives and the world that they have experienced. Using global contexts, students explore human identity, global challenges and what it means to be internationally minded. 
• Language and identity
  Students are required to learn at least two languages. Learning to communicate in a variety of ways is fundamental to their development of intercultural understanding and crucial to their identity affirmation. 
• Conceptual understanding
  Concepts are big ideas that have relevance within specific disciplines and across subject areas.  Students use concepts as a vehicle to inquire into issues and ideas of personal, local and global significance and examine knowledge holistically. 
• Approaches to learning(ATL)
  A unifying thread throughout all subject groups, approaches to learning provide the foundation for independent learning and encourage the application of their knowledge and skills in unfamiliar contexts. Developing and applying these skills help students learn how to learn.
• Community engagement

  Community engagement is a form of learning in which students engage respectfully and equitably with their communities, utilizing knowledge and skills learned in the classroom. It provides opportunities for learners to engage responsively to opportunities and challenges in and with their communities, and to contribute positively through principled action. 

  Community engagement is an important way to participate in principled action—the making of responsible choices—across a range of overlapping communities, both locally and globally. Through principled action, sustained inquiry and critical reflection, learners can develop the attributes described by the IB learner profile that are essential for success in future academic pursuits, and for life.

When we talk about being internationally-minded, it means that we develop and show the qualities described in the Learner Profile. The Learner Profile represents a broad range of human dispositions, capacities and traits that encompass intellectual, personal, emotional and social growth. 

These qualities are important throughout the grades. Everyone in the school community, including students, teachers, parents, and school leaders, has a responsibility to follow these qualities and work towards developing them.

Informed by the values described in the Learner Profile, the Lycée iTrack program: 

• focuses on learners : the student-centered program promote healthy relationships, ethical responsibility and personal challenge 
• develops effective approaches to learning and teaching : our program help students to develop the knowledge, dispositions and skills needed for both academic and personal success 
• works within global contexts : our program increases understanding of languages and cultures, and explore globally significant ideas and issues 
• explores significant content : our program offers a curriculum that is broad and balanced, conceptual and connected.