CAPS and IB: What Effective Support Looks Like

Support should match curriculum standards, assessment style, and learner context.

Curriculum Strategy | 5 min read

CAPS and IB both require deep understanding, but they differ in pacing, assessment style, and evidence expectations.

Support for CAPS learners often focuses on alignment to term pacing and exam structure.

Support for IB learners usually requires stronger integration of conceptual understanding, extended responses, and reflection.

In both systems, high-quality support is diagnostic, targeted, and tracked over time rather than generic.