The MYP is a challenging framework that encourages students to make practical connections between their studies and the real world. The MYP is a five-year program, which can be implemented in a partnership between schools, or in several abbreviated (two, three or four year) formats (ibo.org).
The MYP, like all IB programs, is based on the premise that education can foster understanding among young people around the world. Intercultural awareness is central to the program, to enable future generations to live more peacefully and productively than we do today.
Students at this stage—early puberty to mid-adolescence—are in a particularly critical phase of personal and intellectual development. This is a time of uncertainty, sensitivity, resistance and questioning. An educational program needs to provide them with discipline, skills and challenging standards, but also with creativity and flexibility. IB builds its program around these considerations but it is also concerned that students develop a personal value system by which to guide their own lives, as thoughtful members of local communities and the larger world.
The MYP program provides a thorough study of various disciplines. It also accentuates the interrelatedness of them, acknowledging the role of the subject disciplines and transdisciplinary study. At the same time, IB recognizes the importance of respecting the independence and integrity of each discipline.
The culminating experience in the MYP is the Personal Project, a unique and individually-designed project that each Year 5 student is expected to complete. For more information about the Personal Project, please contact our Personal Project Coordinator.