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In MYP Year 5, students embark on a seven-month personal project journey starting on July of the first semester to February of the second semester.
What is the Personal Project?
The Personal Project is executed by MYP Year 5 students to develop their interests and talents. It showcases and applies the skills students have learned throughout their MYP years into a project-based assessment that explores and expresses their favorite interests. Students produce a product or outcome in any form. The Personal Project formally assesses ATL skills and the IB Learner Profile.
Aims and Objectives
The Personal Project aims for students to inquire, act, and reflect.
Inquire: Students explore an interest that is personally meaningful and take ownership of their learning by undertaking a self-directed inquiry.
Act: Students transfer and apply skills in pursuit of a learning goal and the creation of a product.
Reflect: Students recognize and evidence personal growth and development.
Project Components
Students address personal project objectives through:
the process they follow.
the product or outcome they create.
the report or presentation they make that explains what they have done and learned.
Goal Statement
The goal statement is the basis of the Personal Project which the student develops according to their own personal interests. It should be highly challenging and deeply relate to a global context to lead to greater learning. All goals should be S.M.A.R.T. Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Timely.
Process Journal
Students document their project work in a process journal, which helps students record and learn from their work, and it promotes academic honesty. As a record of progress, journals can take many forms and can be recorded in a variety of media. They represent an evolving record of plans, ideas and accomplishments.
Product or Outcome
The product or outcome is the main element of the Personal Project. It can take many forms, from a personal achievement like achieving a set level of profiency in a new language or a fitness goal to writing a book or composing music. Take a look at the projects from this year for ideas.
The Report
By the end of the project, students are required to submit a report that presents how they had completed the project. It demonstrates the student’s engagement by summarizing the experiences and skills they developed throughout the process and consists of 3 criteria: (A) planning, (B) applying skills, and (C) reflecting.
Global Contexts
MYP’s Global Context is the distinctive core of a Personal Project. Students may design their Personal Projects with any of these in mind.
Identities & Relationships
Concerned with exploring identities; beliefs and values; personal, physical, mental, social and spiritual health; human relationships including families, friends, communities and cultures; what it means to be human.
Fairness & Development
Concerned with exploring rights and responsibilities; relationship between communities; sharing finite resources with other people and with other living things; access to equal opportunities; peace and conflict resolution.
Personal & Cultural Expression
Concerned with exploring the ways in which we discover and express our feelings, nature, culture, beliefs and values; the ways in which we reflect on, extend and enjoy our creativity; our appreciation of the aesthetic.
Globalization & Sustainability
Concerned with exploring interconnectedness of human-made systems and communities; the relationship between local and global processes; how local experiences mediate the global; reflect on the opportunities and tensions provided by world-interconnectedness; the impact of decision-making on humankind and the environment.
Scientific & Technological Innovation
Concerned with exploring the natural world and its laws; the interaction between people and the natural world; how humans use their understanding of scientific principles; the impact of scientific and technological advances on communities and the environments; the impact of environments on human activity; how humans adapt environments to their needs.
Orientation in Time & Space
Concerned with exploring personal histories; homes and journeys; turning points in humankind; discoveries; explorations and migrations of human-kind; the relationships between, and the interconnectedness of, individuals and civilizations, from personal, local and global perspectives.
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