CP Core
The International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme (CP) is designed for students interested in pursuing a career-related education in the final two years of secondary school. The CP offers a learning and assessment programme that promotes access to an IB education while supporting and complementing a student’s career-related studies. The CP provides the flexibility to allow for local differences. Each school adapts the CP to meet the needs, backgrounds and contexts of its students, while incorporating the rigor of IB Diploma Programme courses, the components of the CP core, and discrete career-related studies.
To be awarded the CP Certifcate, students must:
To be awarded the CP Certifcate, students must:
- Complete all components of the CP core to a satisfactory level
- Earn a minimum score of 3 in at least two IB Diploma Programme (DP) courses attempted (between 2 and 4 Standard Level or Higher Level DP courses)
- Complete a career-related study to the school’s satisfaction.
The school-chosen career-related studies are not offered or awarded by the IB, and should be determined by the local context and aligned with student needs and progress toward further studies or direct employment. It is the school’s responsibility to determine the appropriate career-related studies which fulfill criteria set by the IB.
The CP Core consists of four components:
language development • approaches to learning • community and service • reflective project *
*For more information about any of the components, please click the links above.
The Core is at the heart of the CP and enhances student’s personal and interpersonal development, with an emphasis on experiential learning. The CP Core provides students with a combination of academic and practical skills designed to:
- Empower students to be responsible for their own learning and development
- Challenge students to establish and achieve meaningful goals
- Provide students with flexible strategies to deal with familiar and unfamiliar situations
- Involve authentic activities that allow students to develop both the capacity and the will to make a difference
- Give students the opportunity to learn, plan, act and reflect
- Develop both practical and intellectual skills.
Key aspects of the CP core:
- The IB provides the curriculum and assessment framework including the assessment criteria for the reflective project
- The school determines and develops the delivery, content and assessment for approaches to learning, language development and community and service, while fulfilling all CP requirements
- The school assesses the reflective project, based on the criteria set by the IB, and submits it at the end of the two year programme. The IB moderates a sample of reflective projects from each school
- Concurrency of learning is important, and all CP core components should take place throughout the two years of the programme
- Both formative and summative assessment should be used for the CP core components
- A minimum of 230 hours is recommended for the CP core components