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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach both.  In my subject, AP English Lit and AP English Lang are more rigorous than IB English Lang/Lit or IB English Lit.  There is more content in the AP courses, and a high amount of fluff in the IB courses to allow them to stretch to two years.

SL IB Lang/Lit kids read only two literary texts (novels, plays, or short story collections) per year, for a total of four literary texts at the end of the diploma.  The non-literary units are quite unstructured with very little oversight from the IB.  HL kids in the same course read only six literary texts over two years.

Many of the students who have been successful in my IB courses would not have been able to pass AP Lit or AP Lang/Lit.

It always makes me sad when a kid who loves English opts fo the IB course, but my IB experience is what makes my CV strong, so...

I am sure that now parents with no teaching experience, or teachers with experience in only one of the courses will come to say I am wrong, but at this point I have been teaching both AP and IB for almost ten years.  [/quote]

Oh, and I forced my own child to do AP.  Most of his friends chose IB because their parents were dazzled by the hyperbole and jargon.

The IB is a fine program, but not as rigorous as AP.  I have no reason to favor one over the other because I teach both.  [/quote]

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