The Secondary School Experience – The American School of Kinshasa

The Secondary School Experience

The American School of Kinshasa provides dynamic and individualized educational challenges and opportunities that promote diversity and empower each of its students to develop into independent global community leaders

Sarah CloverSecondary Principal

Curriculum Overview

In this year, students begin their journey through the MYP program at TASOK.

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Secondary School Family Handbook 2023/24

Bienvenue! Mbote! Welcome back to all our new and returning families.

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Assessment Policy and Guidelines

We recognize and implement the four main categories of assessment: formative, summative, common, and external.

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Welcome message

TASOK Secondary School students are bright, kind, engaging, and active. Our Secondary School program promotes student growth through rigorous academics that employs English as a medium of instruction.  We aim to develop students who possess a passion for learning and a healthy curiosity about the world around them. We strive to nurture our students’ creativity and challenge them to think both critically and independently.

Our community takes great pride in our many nationalities, languages, and cultures. TASOK Secondary School values a culture of caring, where students are safe to explore and embrace their individuality. We appreciate the unique perspective that each student brings and believe every individual enhances the learning environment. We foster a student body that identifies as part of an evolving world community and endeavor to authentically connect students to our host country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

TASOK High School is a great place to be!    –  Sarah Clover, Secondary Principal

 

TASOK an IB World School

The American Shool of Kinshasa is a IB World School offering the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (PYP), The International Baccalaureate ​Middle Years Programme (MYP), The  International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (DP).  IB World School share a common philosophy—a commitment to high quality, challenging, international education that The American School of Kinshasa believes is important for our students.

The IB is globally renowned worldwide for excellence. Whether you’re a teacher, school leader, parent or student, there are many ways you can join us and become an important part of that excellence. 

The beauty of the IB is that it’s a global education community. All schools around the world face the same challenges, enjoy the same benefits and can connect with one another.

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