How do we prepare for authorization & evaluation?

A new Guide to evaluation (2020) informs all IB evaluations which take place from September 2021. Evaluations are grounded in the revised Programme standards and practices (2020).

Schools who wish to become an authorised IB World School, or be authorised to add an additional IB programme are still using the 2014 version of the Programme standards and practices.

In this section of the website we look at the key stages of becoming or being an IB World School: Candidacy, Authorization and Evaluation.

The pages have been designed for the DP Coordinator to use as they lead the faculty and guide the school leadership team through the three stages. Each of the pages is intended to be used as a stand-alone workshop to be used during a staff meeting or professional development session.

Key Themes

• Being a Candidate School: How long does it take from showing interest to becoming authorized as an IB school? Who needs to go on a recognised IB workshop? Which documents do I need to produce?
• The process of being authorized: What happens on a verification visit? How do I prepare faculty, leadership and governors for the verification visit? When will we know whether we have been authorized?
• The 5 year evaluation process: Why do we need to carry out a five year evaluation? How long does the proces take? Who needs to be involved? What is the impact of the evaluation?

Selected Pages

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Programme Development Plan (PDP) 14 December 2022

What are you working on?All schools are working on improving aspects of their programme(s). For some this might be developing...
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What is IB Evaluation? 29 November 2020

Every five years after a school is authorized to be an IB World School they are asked to carry out an evaluation of the...
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Your IB evaluation guide for staff 5 JIB Docs (2) Teamary 2023

This page contains a PowerPoint that you can use to introduce the IB evaluation process to all key stakeholders. Please...
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Synchronized Evaluation Visit 31 December 2022

IB schools can request that their 5 year evaluation visit is synchronised in time with evaluations from other external agencies...
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Multi-Programme Visit 31 December 2022

IB schools that run more than one IB programme can request that their 5 year evaluation visits are synchronized to be at...
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Writing your school profile 30 November 2022

All our schools are IB World Schools, but each school is unique. All schools implement IB programmes using the same programme...
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