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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I feel a lot of your statements are not accurate.  Why were you teaching the IB program poorly?[/quote]

I'm not making it up, and you clearly have no idea of course construction or components of the IB.

I teach at an international school in Europe that has been running the IB for years prior to America's attempts to implement the program.  I guarantee that I have had many more hours of "real" IB training than your US public school teachers.  The IB was invented in Europe.

So go ahead: what have I said that is in accurate?  Be specific.[/quote]

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IB Lang/Lit SL read 9 literary texts, HL read 13:
https://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/curriculum/language-and-literature/language-a-literature-slhl/

You said 2 for a total of 4.
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You mention DP Lang/Lit, but you have failed to understand that your link is to the DP Lit. curriculum, NOT the DP Lang/Lit curriculum (to which I referred).  DP Lit and DP Lang/Lit are not the same course.  You are confused.[/quote]

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