MYP PERSONAL PROJECT
@Lincoln Community School
Shannon Kerry, MYP Coordinator, PP Co-Coordinator
Michael Frels, PP Co-Coordinator
2025-26
Shannon Kerry, MYP Coordinator, PP Co-Coordinator
Michael Frels, PP Co-Coordinator
2025-26
The Personal Project allows students to demonstrate their ability to connect and transfer the extensive skills, knowledge and understandings they have acquired in one or more of their MYP disciplines to a global context, in order to achieve a meaningful goal of their own design.
The project prepares students for success in the IB Diploma Programme by introducing them to the challenges of independent work, in which self-motivation is essential. The extensive research required by the project and the presentation of an academic report provide an introduction to the rigor and skills required by the DP Extended Essay.
During the course of the personal project, students choose a learning goal and develop a product goal that connects their chose topic to their personal interest.
The three components of the Personal Project are:
The Process Journal
The Product
The Academic Report
Personal Project Assessment Criteria:
Criterion A: Planning
Criterion B: Applying Skills
Criterion C: Reflecting
The aims state what a student may expect to experience and learn. These aims suggest how the student may be changed by the learning experience.
The personal project is an opportunity for students to:
INQUIRE
explore an interest that is personally meaningful
take ownership of their learning by undertaking a self-directed inquiry
ACT
transfer and apply skills in pursuit of a learning goal and the creation of a product
REFLECT
recognize and evidence personal growth and development.
The Personal Project involves students in a wide range of activities to extend their knowledge and understanding and to develop their skills and attitudes.
These student-planned learning activities include:
deciding what they want to learn about, identifying what they already know, and discovering what they will need to know to complete the project
creating proposals or criteria for their project, planning their time and materials, and recording developments of the project
making decisions, developing understandings and solving problems, communicating with their supervisor and others, and creating a product or developing an outcome evaluating the product/outcome and reflecting on their project and their learning.
As students become involved in the self-initiated and self-directed learning process, they will find it easier to construct in-depth knowledge on their topic, and develop an understanding of themselves as learners.
My name is Shannon Kerry and I am the MYP & PP Coordinator at LCS. Having worked at MYP Schools for over two decades, my experience with and appreciation of the Personal Project is vast. This is your chance to truly choose to study & challenge yourself in order to learn and apply your knowledge and skills to a project of your own choosing. If you have any questions about the Personal Project, please do not hesitate to contact me.
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