Global Citizen Diploma - NIST INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL in Bangkok, Thailand

NIST is a member of an eleven school consortium offering the Global Citizen Diploma (GCD). The GCD provides students with a credential that highlights the qualities, values and expertise of global citizenship, as well as the opportunity to describe their whole education qualitatively through reflection on their learning experiences.

The GCD is a diploma programme designed to complement the rigour of NIST’s Learning Programme by recognising a student’s comprehensive educational experience—learning that has taken place inside the classroom, within the larger context of school, and in the world beyond.

The GCD at NIST provides students with a metacognitive framework to internalise and synthesise these unique and varied experiences in order to enhance their own self awareness, as well as and their global awareness. This programme supports students potential to contribute globally through deeper connections with a range of contexts. Students celebrate the development of their passions, talents and skills that elevate the human condition.

academics, creativity, ECA, TOK, Service, IA, Personal Project, Action Week, Work Experience

The NIST Experience

The elements of the GCD celebrate the experiences and components provided at NIST as part of our identity. The programme adds another layer of depth that enhances those experiences as it encourages students to metacognitively reflect on thinking and change as part of the process.

GCD Stories

Aaditi

I could tell you my high school grades or I could tell you about my experience as an environmental group leader who reduces paper waste. Or about being the voice for the student body while leading a football team to becoming champs and being a delegate solving a world crisis. MY STORY IS MORE THAN NUMBERS.

Abi

I could tell you my IB score. Or I could tell you about my experiences working with refugees to support and empower, collaborating with those living in the Immigration Detention Centre, Bangkok and on the Thai-Myanmar border in hopes to improve their quality of life. MY STORY IS MORE THAN NUMBERS.

Ram

I could tell you about my IB score. Or I could tell you how I have led a social enterprise that aims to help the NIST community one bottle at a time and upskill the Klong Toei community. This helped me grow as a person and expand my horizons. MY STORY IS MORE THAN NUMBERS.

Amp

I could tell you about my science score. Or I could tell you about how going to the temple has broadened my intellectual horizon and how it has helped me reflect on my privilege. MY STORY IS MORE THAN NUMBERS.

Dew

I could tell you about my IB score. Or I could tell you about my 6 years of experience with service - about how I've built precious relationships with commmunities around Thailand which I've brought forward and speak about through my art. MY STORY IS MORE THAN NUMBERS.

Rei

I could tell you about my IB score. Or I could tell you that my experiences in co-leading a social enterprise that aims to build sustainable communities, and in assisting service actions as part of the service core team has changed my perspectives on the world and myself. MY STORY IS MORE THAN NUMBERS.

Mint

I could tell you about my IB score. Or I could tell you how the opportunities I've been given such as participating in ServiceCo, co-leading service groups, and being able to start projects that I have true interest in, have allowed me to grow as a global citizen and help those around me. MY STORY IS MORE THAN NUMBERS.

Nampueng

I could tell you my IB score. Or I could tell you that my engagement in leading the athletic council and co-leading multiple service groups within the community gifted me new opportunities and perspectives that have changed my worldview for the better. MY STORY IS MORE THAN NUMBERS.

Rex

I could tell you about my IB score. Or I could tell you about how creating award-winning short films and documentaries helped me understand the diversity of the wonderful people and places around me. MY STORY IS MORE THAN NUMBERS.

Nari

I could tell you about my IB score. Or I could tell you about hoW interviewing random strangers in Bangkok and capturing these interviews into short stories has changed my perception of the world around me. MY STORY IS MORE THAN NUMBERS.

Ninee

I could tell you about my IB score. Or I could tell you about my passion for helping others which led me to co-lead a service group that aims to raise awareness and funds to support victims of exploitation. MY STORY IS MORE THAN NUMBERS.

Shoham

I could just tell you about my IB score or I could tell you how I restarted a social enterprise to provide equitable opportunities to local organic rice farmers or about conducting risk assessment research on environmental radon concentration fluctuations in rural Indian communitites susceptible to lung cancer. MY STORY IS MORE THAN NUMBERS.

Meet the GCD Student Steering Committee

The GCD Student Steering Committee (SSC) is a group of enthusiastic students working to raise the profile of the GCD and global citizenship education at NIST. Their primary role is to represent the GCD programme in their respective advisory classes, updating the class on upcoming events, and to provide support to students when completing elements of the GCD.

For more information about the Global Citizen Diploma visit www.globalcitizendiploma.org

Elementary

The PYP is a research-based framework that adopts a holistic approach to early childhood education.

Secondary

For our older students, NIST offers the IB Middle Years and Diploma Programmes, as well as the Global Citizen Diploma and International Award.

Academic Performance

NIST students have traditionally excelled in these exams, posting scores well above the global averages, and often leading other schools in the region.