Supervisor Meetings

Roles and Responsibilities

Your responsibilities are:

• Define a clear goal and global context for the project, based on personal interests

• Select an appropriate supervisor from within the school community. This must be a teacher, coach, administrator, or school counselor at Thomas Jefferson High School

• Maintain a process journal including at least one entry per week. This must contain measurable, student-generated success criteria for the product/outcome, as well as a record of the planning and development of the project.

• Meet with the supervisor regularly review progress and complete a Meeting Notes Interview (to be included in the process journal) at each meeting in ManageBac

• Produce an appropriately highly challenging and high-quality product/outcome

• Produce a written report according to IB Personal Project criteria, including reflection and response to the project criteria. This must follow the format of a formal academic report as provided in your project guide

• Adhere to internal deadlines set by the Personal Project Coordinator

• Demonstrate academic integrity throughout the process of completing the Personal Project

• Prepare a suitable format for presenting the project at the Personal Project Day of Show in the spring

Personal Project supervisors responsibilities are:

• Be given a guide which explains the MYP Personal Project and your responsibilities

• Understand and adhere to the deadlines, requirements of the personal project, and assessment criteria as presented in the guide

• Attend introductory professional development session with the MYP Coordinator in the fall

• Attend a marking session with the MYP Coordinator in the spring to standardize and mark students’ projects according to the criteria in the Personal Project guide

• Meet with your student(s) on a regular basis (typically at least once each month) between now and the deadline for submission to monitor progress, give feedback, and offer suggestions for next steps. IB requires a minimum of three meetings

• Ensure the chosen MYP project topic satisfies appropriate legal and ethical standards with regard to health and safety, confidentiality, human rights, animal welfare and environmental issues

• Confirm the authenticity of the work submitted

• Contact the MYP Coordinator if your student(s) are not fulfilling the project requirements

• Complete a final evaluation of your student(s)’ work using the IB MYP assessment criteria for the Personal Project and submit it to the IB MYP Coordinator

Academic Honesty Form

CHECKLIST for Personal Project Report_REVIEW with your SUPERVISOR