2016-2017School Profile

IST is... fully accredited by the Council of International Schools (CIS)IST is... fully authorized as an International Baccalaureate World School (IB)

IST is... fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC)IST is... a full member of the following China- and Asia-wide international school associations:

ACAMIS, ACMIBS, ISAC, ISCOT and EARCOS

Steve Moody: Director | Michael Conway: Secondary Principal | Darryl Davies: IB Diploma Coordinator

International School Of Tianjin Is A Fully Authorized International Baccalaureate World School

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL of TIANJIN

Our CommunityThe International School of Tianjin (IST) is a not-for-profit, college-preparatory day school for Nursery to 12th grade students of the international community in Tianjin. Tianjin is a major industrial and commercial city just 30 minutes south of Beijing, China, with a metropolitan population of over 10 million. Founded in 1994, IST currently has approximately 420 students from 33 different countries and regions, with American, Danish, French, German and Korean students making up the largest percentages.

band, yearbook, chess, translation services, community and service, Model United Nations, and leadership conferences. Through the Student Council and other student-initiated activities, students have the opportunity to assume and develop leadership roles. IST is a competitive member of the Beijing-Tianjin ISAC Sports League, as well as a participant in the China-wide ACAMIS Sports, Culture, and Arts Leagues. Students also participate in ‘Week Without Walls’, a program that offers our students genuine and meaningful exposure to, engagement and interaction with, and appreciation of, our host country China.

Our CurriculumThe minimum expectations for an an IST Diploma are: Language A, 4 credits; Language B, 4 credits; Humanities, 4 credits; Science, 4 credits; Mathematics, 4 credits; Physical Education, 2 credits; Arts 2.5 credits; Technology, 2 credit; and Electives, 2 credits. We also give one credit each to TOK, CAS, Personal Project and Extended Essay (these are all required credits for IST graduates).

In total 32.5 credits are required by all students, with 17.5 required from studies in grades 9 and 10 and 15 credits required from grades 11 and 12. Each credit is a full year course.

The IB Middle Years Program curriculum provides a set schedule for all 6th-10th grade students with a full course of eight subjects per semester. English is the language of instruction, with French, German, Danish, Chinese and Korean also offered as mother-tongue courses. The majority of the students study Chinese as a second language. All students are expected to commence the full IB Diploma at the beginning of Grade 11 (viz. 6 academic subjects of which 3 are SL and 3 are HL, Extended Essay, TOK and CAS). However, in certain circumstances individual needs may dictate that students would be better suited to the ‘IB Certificate IST Diploma’ (viz. 4/5 SL courses and 2/1 HL

courses, along with participation in TOK, CAS and a modified Extended Essay. All three IB Core components are internally assessed.) Note: At the end of Grade 11, student in either stream may be placed in a purely IST Diploma stream (i.e. no formal IB certificates and therefore no externally moderated examinations,) or in an IST/IB-Certificates Hybrid stream.

Grades 9 and 10 Grades 11 and 12Grade Descriptor Letter Descriptor Band GPA

7 Excellent performance A+ Exceptional 96-100 4.336 Very good performance A Excellent 86-95 4.05 Good performance B Good 71-85 3.04 Satisfactory performance C Satisfactory 56-70 2.03 Remediation Required D Remediation Required 46-55 1.02 Incomplete I Incomplete 0-45 0.01 Incomplete

Our Faculty There are 68 full-time and 2 part-time faculty members. All teachers have bachelor degrees and appropriate certification, with 33 of the faculty having advanced degrees. Teachers are supported by 27 Chinese teaching assistants, all of whom have university degrees. The faculty has previously taught at 163 different international schools around the world and has an average of 13 years teaching experience.

Co-Curricular IST offers a wide variety of co-curricular activities, including drama, choir, strings,

Our SchoolThe school is an IB World School authorized to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (Grades 11-12), the Middle Years Programme (Grades 6-10), and the Primary Years Programme (Grades NPK-5). IST is fully accredited by both the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) in the USA and the Council of International Schools (CIS) in Europe. IST graduated its first class in 2005. The school year begins on August 13 and ends on June 7, with 180 student contact days. The school year is divided into two semesters. There are eight, 40-minute class periods per day with double periods in most academic subject areas.

Grading & RankingIST’s High School program has two different grading systems: Grades 9 and 10 use the IB-MYP grading system, with marks given out of 7, while Grades 11 and 12 use a letter grade as shown in the tables above. Please note that Grade 11 and 12 grades relate to work completed during a given semester and reflect the student’s current standard, relative to that expected of a student at this stage in their studies within the context of the IST Diploma. While these grades correlate with an IB Diploma student’s likely final performance on the IB Diploma 7-point scale, they do not formally predict it.

For the purposes of marking and calculating Grade Point Averages (GPAs) IB Diploma classes and non-IB Diploma classes are treated separately. IB Diploma classes receive weighted grades where IB High-Level courses count at 1.6 and Standard Level are the base unit 1. Non-IBDP students receive unweighted grades and they do not factor into the rankings or averages for the IB Diploma classes. We do not provide a specific class ranking of our students.

IST graduates who have successfully completed the full IB Diploma have received final scores ranging from 24 to 44. IST has achieved an average 96% pass rate in the IB Diploma with IB diploma scores averaging 34 since our first graduating Diploma class in 2005. The world average is approximately 30.

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Group 4 — SciencesBiology

Chemistry Physics

United StatesArizona State UniversityBates CollegeBeloit CollegeBrigham Young University Boston UniversityBowdoin CollegeBrown UniversityCalifornia State University, ChicoCalifornia State University, Long BeachCalifornia State University, SacramentoCalifornia State University, San JoseCarnegie Mellon UniversityCornell UniversityDelaware College of Art and DesignDrexel UniversityEastern Michigan UniversityEmory UniversityFlorida State UniversityFordham UniversityFurman UniversityGeorge Mason UniversityGeorge Washington UniversityGeorgia Institute of TechnologyGolf Academy of AmericaGrinnell CollegeIndiana State UniversityIndiana University BloomingtonJohns Hopkins UniversityKansas State UniversityLehigh UniversityMarquette UniversityMichigan State UniversityNew York UniversityNortheastern UniversityNorthern Virginia Community College (NOVA)Oberlin CollegeOhio State University ColumbusOhio Wesleyan UniversityParsons The New School for DesignPennsylvania State UniversityPratt Institute Purdue UniversityRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteRhode Island School of DesignRutgers, The State University of New JerseyRutgers, CamdenRutgers, New BrunswickRutgers, NewarkSarah Lawrence CollegeSchool of the Art Institute in Chicago (SAIC)State University of New York at Binghamton

State University of New York at BuffaloSyracuse UniversityUniversity of ArizonaUniversity of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, DavisUniversity of California, IrvineUniversity of California, Los AngelesUniversity of California, RiversideUniversity of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraUniversity of Colorado, BoulderUniversity of GeorgiaUniversity of HawaiiUniversity of HoustonUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of Iowa University of KansasUniversity of KentuckyUniversity of MassachusettsUniversity of Minnesota, CrookstonUniversity of Minnesota, MorrisUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PittsburghUniversity of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of TulsaUniversity of VirginiaUniversity of Washington University of Washington, BothellUniversity of WisconsinUtah State UniversityVanderbilt UniversityVirginia Commonwealth UniversityVirginia Tech UniversityWayne State UniversityWestern Michigan UniversityWilliam Jewell, Boston University

AustraliaUniversity of MelbourneUniversity of QueenslandUniversity of Sydney

CanadaCarleton UniversityMcGill UniversityMcMaster UniversityTrent UniversityUniversity of British ColumbiaUniversity of TorontoUniversity of Waterloo

ChinaNankai UniversityNew York University ShanghaiXi’an Jiaotong Liverpool UniversityZhejiang University

FranceInstitut National dés Sciences AppliqueesLa Rochelle Business SchoolStudium UniversityUniversité Paris VI - Pierre & Marie CurieUniversité Paris VII - Denis DiderotUniversité Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier

GermanyFreie Universität BerlinTechnische Universität MunichUniversity of OldenburgWirtschaftsakademie Schleswig-Holstein Kiel

Hong KongCity University of Hong KongChinese University of Hong KongHong Kong Institute of EducationHong Kong Polytechnic UniversitySavannah College of Art and Design, Hong KongThe Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyUniversity of Hong Kong

JapanKeio UniversityKwansei UniversityKyoto UniversityRitsumeikan Asia Pacific UniversityTamagawa UniversityUniversity of SapporoUniversity of Tokyo - PEAK Honors ProgramUniversity of TsukubaWaseda University

KoreaChungnam National UniversityEwha Women’s UniversityHankuk University of Foreign StudiesKAISTKonkuk UniversityKorea UniversityKyung Hee UniversityKyungbuk National University

Pohang University of Science and TechnologySeoul National UniversitySogang UniversitySung Kyun Kwan UniversityYonsei University

New ZealandUniversity of AucklandUniversity of Otago

SingaporeSingapore Management University

SwitzerlandEcole Hoteliere de LausanneGlion Institute of Higher Education

United KingdomAnglia Ruskin UniversityDurham UniversityHeriot-Watt UniversityKing’s College LondonLondon Metropolitan UniversityOxford Brookes UniversityQueen Mary University LondonSchool of Oriental & African Studies LondonSwansea UniversityUniversity College of LondonUniversity of BirminghamUniversity of BrightonUniversity of BristolUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of EdinburghUniversity of ExeterUniversity of Hertfordshire University of KentUniversity of LeedsUniversity of LiverpoonUniversity of LoughboroughUniversity of ManchesterUniversity of ReadingUniversity of St. AndrewsUniversity of SurreyUniversity of Warwick

College AcceptancesClasses of 2005 - 2016

Group 3 — Mathematics Math Higher Level

Standard Level Studies

Group 2 — Language Acquisition

EnglishChinese

Chinese ab initio

Group 5 — Individuals and Societies

Economics Geography

History

Group 6 —The ArtsVisual Arts

Music

Group 1 — Studies in Language and Literature

Chinese English French German

Korean

2016-2017School Profile

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF TIANJINNo.22 Weishan South Road, Shuanggang, Jinnan District, Tianjin 300350, P.R. ChinaTel: +86 (22) 2859 2001/2/3 Fax: +86 (22) 2859 2007Website: www.istianjin.org Email: info@istianjin.net

IST is... fully accredited by the Council of International Schools (CIS)IST is... fully authorized as an International Baccalaureate World School (IB)

IST is... fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC)IST is... a full member of the following China- and Asia-wide international school associations:

ACAMIS, ACMIBS, ISAC, ISCOT and EARCOS

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