Year 9 Subject Guide 2020

INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAMME (MYP) DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THE MIDDLE YEARS PROGRAMME continued Global Contexts: Global contexts are used to support learning in

The Personal Project: The Personal Project holds a very important place in the programme. This is a significant body of work produced over an extended period. It is a product of the student’s own initiative and should reflect his/her experience of the MYP. The Personal Project requires students to apply their Approaches to Learning (ATL) skills, to consolidate prior and subject-specific learning, and to develop an area of personal interest. The Personal Project provides an excellent opportunity for students to produce a truly personal and often creative product/outcome and to demonstrate a consolidation of their learning in the MYP. The project offers many opportunities for differentiation of learning and expression according to students’ individual needs. The personal nature of the project is important; the project should revolve around a challenge that motivates and interests the individual student. Each student develops a Personal Project independently.

context. The global contexts are specific, varied and highly situational. While concepts are broad and abstract, students learn that conceptual understanding is influenced by experiencing them through different contexts. Contexts offer the possibility of new perspectives, additional information, counter examples and refinements of understanding. By studying topics through multiple contexts, students understand that all concepts, for example the concept of ‘change’, are open to interpretation. The Global Contexts used throughout the Middle Years Programme are:

Identities and Relationships Personal and Cultural Expression Orientation in Space and Time Scientific and Technical Innovation Globalisation and Sustainability

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Fairness and Development

The Personal Project is compulsory for all MYP students to complete in the final year of the programme.

These Global Contexts provide a shared starting point for inquiry into what it means to be internationally minded, framing curriculum that promotes multilingualism, intercultural understanding and

Students will be formally introduced to the Personal Project in Term 4 of Year 9. At this point, students will be provided with access to the Personal Project website, outlining the requirements of this piece of work.

global engagement. Action and Service:

Service is an essential component of the MYP from which there are clear learning outcomes that grow from student’s participation in local and global communities. Action may result from inquiry within a subject area, leading to service within the community or it may be self-initiated through personal interest.

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