IB Middle Years Programme 6-10 for Head of School and MYP Coordinators.

IB Middle Years Programme

6-10

for Head of School and MYP Coordinators

© International Baccalaureate Organization 2007

What is the IB mission?

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. To this end, the IB works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.

These 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.


What is the IB learner profile?

IB learners strive to be:Inquirers

Knowledgeable

Thinkers

Communicators

Principled

Open-minded

Caring

Risk-takers

Balanced

Reflective


Fundamental concepts

Intercultural awareness

Holistic learning

Communication

The fundamental concepts


Focus and rigour

Planning time: subjects/year levels

Connections to real life (areas of interaction)

Impact on curriculum—interdisciplinary approach


Tolerance and respect

Development of skills, attitudes and knowledge

Intercultural awareness

Development of understanding of own and others’

cultures

Incorporation of a global perspective

in curriculum

Empathy and understanding


What does the MYP curriculum consist of?

Programme modelAreas of Interaction: approaches to learning

• community and service

• human ingenuity (homo faber)

• environments

• health and social education


Personal project

In the final year of the programme, each student completes a personal project, asignificant piece of work that is the product of the student’s own initiative and creativity.

Each project must reflect a personal understanding of the areas of interaction. Students apply the skills acquired through one of these areas as well as approaches to learning.

Students are expected to choose their project, which can take many forms, and takethe process through to completion under the supervision of a teacher in the school.

This involves: planning research a high degree of personal reflection.

The personal project is assessed by teachers against a set of IB assessment criteria.

IB Middle Years Programme 6-10 for Head of School and MYP Coordinators.

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