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The Middle Years Programme

What is a 21st Century Education?

What you need to know about the IB...

So what exactly is the International Baccalaureate?

“... The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a non-profit foundation, motivated by its mission to create a better world through education”

...The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect...

...Our programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right....

IB Middle Years Program

Encourages students to:

• understand the connections between

subjects through interdisciplinary learning

• understand the connections between

subjects and the real world

• become critical and reflective

thinkers

• The IB learner profile is the IB mission statement translated

into a set of learning outcomes for the 21st century

• As IB learners we strive to be:
• inquirers
• knowledgeable
• thinkers
• communicators
• principled
• pen-minded
• caring
• risk-takers
• balanced
• reflective

IB learner profile

Student Perspective of IB learner profile

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* Subject groups must address all strands of all four assessment criteria at least twice in each year of the MYP.

Community Service Ideas

• Place Mats to Go-make mealtime more meaningful for

seniors who receive Meals on Wheels by providing colorful place mats with uplifting messages

• Friendship Boxes-cheer up a child going through a

stressful transition by providing toys and prizes

• Bird Buddies- make birdhouses for local nursing home,

senior center, or homeless shelter

• Personalized Coloring Books-give children something

meaningful to do while waiting in an emergency room

• Birthday Bags-create birthday bags for children who
• ften don’t get to celebrate their birthday
• School kits-give school supplies to children in shelters,

refugee camps, etc.

What are MYP Projects?

 student-centered and age-appropriate  enable students to engage in practical explorations

through a cycle of inquiry, action and reflection

 centered around a global context  help students to develop the attributes of the IB

learner profile

 provide students with an essential opportunity to

demonstrate ATL skills developed through the MYP

 foster the development of independent, lifelong

learners

MYP Projects

 Develop cross-curriculum skills  Inspire students to obtain a deeper knowledge  Promote confidence and self-direction  Allow students to improve organizational and research

skills

 Encourage communication and collaboration

MYP Projects

MYP Projects

What are the Components?

• Proposal
• Process

Journal

• Statement of

Reflection

• Presentation

Proposal

 The MYP Project is a project where students choose

what they want to do, to show the skills they have developed in the IB Middle Years Program.

 Students will choose a topic and hopefully enjoy

learning about it as they research and develop their chosen service.

 Must be submitted for approval from advisement

teacher

Process Journal

 complete record of everything students do for their

Project from start to finish

 record all student ideas, planning, discussions,

clippings of readings and concepts, diary excerpts

 whatever students do that is part of the process

should be kept in this document

 reflect changes, doodles, notes in the margin, pictures,

ideas, reminders, drawings material samples, etc.

 need not be neat or well presented, but should be

honestly filled in regularly to show students how their project is developing

Statement of Reflection

 The purpose of the statement of reflection is to clearly

explain student learning experiences upon completion

• f the project.

Presentation

 The purpose of the presentation is to share student

learning and experiences of completing the project.

 Students will be asked to present during Advisement.  Students will need to prepare a 5-10 minute

presentation.

How will students be assessed?

 Criterion A: Investigating  Criterion B: Planning  Criterion C: Taking Action  Criterion D: Reflection

*Evidence will be gathered from Process Journal, Statement of Reflection, and Presentation

Timeline of Events

 September 2014: The Proposal  October 2014: Research and the Action Plan  November-December 2014: Taking Action  January 2015: Preparing the Statement of Reflection  February 2015: Preparing the Presentation  March 2015: Sharing the MYP Project  April 2015: Submit Community Service Log, Process

Journal, and Final Draft of Reflection *All Final MYP Project Grades will go on Quarter 4 Progress Report.

September-The Proposal

 6 Journal Prompts (Student)

• 1. Brainstorm ideas
• 2. Identify one you most want to develop into a topic
• 3. How does it fit into a Global Context
• 4. Goal and actions
• 5. Pick a Global Context
• 6. Summary of Prompts 1-5.

 Proposal Feedback (Teacher)  Interim Assessment of Process Journal (Teacher)

How will students receive a grade?

Proposal:

 Grade through Advisement  Satisfactory/ Needs Improvement/ Unsatisfactory

What will students receive?

 A folder for all materials (to be left in Advisement)  MYP Project General Directions  Monthly guide to MYP Project (process journal)

Additional Questions?

Contact: Mary Thurman mthurman@marietta-city.k12.ga.us 770-422-0311 ext. 1282

“.... Our parents are excited because students are becoming well-rounded and

they’re getting that classic liberal arts-minded education...”

• Dr. John Waller, director, secondary curriculum and special programs, Marietta City

Schools, USA.

“.... It allows students to explore their passions and do something powerful with it. It involves third or fourth level thinking where students really have to go beyond the surface and dig deeper into more abstract and conceptual thinking. ...” Dr Vincent Chian, Principle of Fairview International School, Malaysia “.... We’re talking about an international qualification which is the best in the world... Why are we not bringing it in...?”

• Dr Anthony Seldon, Headmaster of Wellington College

What are people saying about the MYP?