Welcome To The International School of Tanganyika
Educating Expatriate And Tanzanian Families Since 1963!
Education is an important framework in shaping a child's life. IST is a world-renowned, non-profit school offering a rigorous International Baccalaureate curriculum coupled with a holistic approach to learning. Our approach challenges students to become independent learners, offers the support they need to get there, and inspires them to become productive individuals who give back to their communities.
Challenge
Students are challenged academically and personally, ensuring they continuously grow in their understanding and skills.
Support
We support a diverse range of learning needs, as students come with various levels of readiness, needs, and interests.
Inspire
They will pursue their varied passions with enthusiasm, developing resilience, perseverance, and confidence.
Learning And Academics: IST Is A Full International Baccalaureate (IB) School
IST has a long history (almost 40 years) of educating and graduating students with an IB Diploma. As a fully accredited IB school, students receive an education that opens up a world of global opportunities for their future, in post-secondary education and their careers. The curriculum is balanced, holistic, and provides a variety of options for your child.
Discover Why Families Join IST
Become A Twiga: Admissions At IST
Your child can experience the benefit of an education that academically challenging and personally rewarding. IST offers them access to an international, world-class faculty in the best facilities in Dar es Salaam.
Explore IST’s Campuses
Students enjoy two beautiful campuses – one for Primary and one for Secondary. Both campus feature park-like settings, collaborative learning spaces, swimming pools, and more.

 

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Unakosaje Juma La Kiswahili WEWE?

Kuadhimisha Juma la Kiswahili ni njia nzuri ya kuhamasisha na kuenzi lugha ya Kiswahili, pamoja na utamaduni wa Kiswahili si tu nchini Tanzania, bali barani Afrika na Ulimwenguni kote.

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March (Educational) Madness

We love to rank things – to sort events, services, and people using subjective and often arbitrary measures.  There is no better example of this than the rankings of US college basketball teams as they gear up for, and compete in, the national championship tournament each March.

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Why study the Arts?

We have reached the time in the academic year where our grade 10 students begin to select their courses for next academic year, and for many, this means deciding on what DP courses to select. It is at this time that students and families make course decisions with university programmes and career options in mind and which often results in dropping any type of Arts course.

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Education or Occupational Training?

‘We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.  The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.’   E.O. Wilson, American Biologist

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THIMUN 2023 The Future of Borders

Twelve students from the IST MUN program recently traveled to The Hague, Netherlands from the 20th to the 27th of January to participate in the 55th annual 4-day THIMUN conference, which drew over 3,200 delegates from all over the world.

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An IST Teacher Considers ChatGPT

The release of ChatGPT initiated a tidal wave of opinion, prediction and doomsday scenarios.  In the education field we have heard that AI is the end of writing, that students will engage with AI for nefarious outcomes, that homework is doomed and that education as we know it will need to change significantly. 

The International School of Tanganyika is a proud member of / accredited by these organisations:
  
  
Child protection is extremely important. IST’s Child Protection Policy (Section 7.15 >>) together with procedures to verify the previous employment for new job applicants is part of our commitment to ensure all members of the IST community are informed and educated regarding symptoms of child abuse for the protection of all of our students.