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Waiit, students can take the classes with or without taking the test/without the classes? I'm confused :c |
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With AP yes. Taking the tests at the end of the year is optional. Students who test well and just want to take the tests are welcome. They usually aren't as prepared and they don't get school credit.
With IB and my local school district, it is fairly new. I don't know much about the certificates because my kids aren't in high school yet, so that may be an option, but the way it has been presented to us, no mention of certificates have been made.
Of the 500 enrolled in the high school, less than a dozen are enrolled in the diploma program. In fact it was just a few years ago that the district tried to convert to IB and they went whole district too fast, and created a big controversy. So we are actually phasing out again. Plus when the converted they dropped most AP classes. The larger schools in other district usually have both.
So, yeah, if I confused yeah, it is because I have gotten confusing information (possibly misinformation, too).
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26-04-2011 20:04
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I'm in the international Bacculate program My school is full with transfer and exchange students so it's an international school. |
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Sounds interesting and like a lot of fun, though not easy!
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That's what I studied in university -good choice!
(Unless you want a job that pays well...  )
I went to school in Canada and had many years of French classes. In hindsight, I mostly remember reading and studying the grammar, especially with regard to tenses and verbs, and getting all the conjugations and prepositions correct. There's no denying the importance of formal grammar training, but years later, I found myself wishing there had been more focus on basic conversational skills, since when you're just trying to chat with someone on the subway in Montreal, it's not so vital to get every tense and conjugation correct but rather to have a broader vocabulary and familiarity with hearing the language more than reading it.
Still, in a classroom situation, I imagine it's hard for one teacher to practice conversational skills with multiple students, and not something that's as easy to evaluate and grade.
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26-04-2011 21:00
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27-04-2011 03:13
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| quote: | Originally posted by lborgia88
There's no denying the importance of formal grammar training, but years later, I found myself wishing there had been more focus on basic conversational skills, since when you're just trying to chat with someone on the subway in Montreal, it's not so vital to get every tense and conjugation correct but rather to have a broader vocabulary and familiarity with hearing the language more than reading it. |
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You're so right, LB! I often found, and find myself in this same situation! Even if I'd know well a language, it's very difficult for me to converse fluently! I tend to try and form a sentence into my mind first, trying to use as much of correct grammar and sentence structure as I can, but this takes a lot of time to utter it out! Being conscious of such a drawback, and knowing that during a conversation with another person I cannot take it so easy (especially when you're talking with the French who tend to speak so fast in their native language!), even if I'd know well the language I always end up speaking out the wrong structure, differently from what my mind says, or start stammering in order to be as fast as the person who's speaking to me! That's why I feel more at ease writing down things in a foreign language, where I could take my own time!
During the many foreign language classes I attended at my time, we too didn't have that much coverage of conversational skills ... we had those occasional oral exams and comprehensions, but the classes mainly focused on the respective grammar and culture! I cannot deny that these helped me a lot when visiting the respective countries but, again, I wish I could be able to converse more fluently and not seem like a dork!
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27-04-2011 07:19
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