International Baccalaureate

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International Baccalaureate

• Middle Years Program

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Philosophy

• The IB Middle Years Program is focused on
  students making the transition through
  adolescence.
• Because they are at a crucial period of personal,
  social, physical and intellectual development,
  the program is designed to help them find a sense
  of belonging and to foster a positive attitude
  toward learning.

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What is the MYP?

• The IB Middle Years Program provides a framework
  of academic challenge that encourages students to
  embrace and understand the connections between
  traditional subjects and the real world, and
  become critical and reflective thinkers.

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Curriculum Framework
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Interdisciplinary Focus

• MYP teachers are encouraged to support
  interdisciplinary teaching and learning.
• This focus may vary from small scale disciplinary
  extensions to interdisciplinary threads in a
  course to large scale interdisciplinary units or
  projects.

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Reflection

• Know thyself Plato
• Student learning is improved by providing a
  structure for students to reflect systematically
  over time on the learning process and to develop
  the aptitudes, skills and habits that come from
  critical reflection.

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• Community and service starts in the classroom and
  extends beyond it, requiring students to take an
  active part in the communities in which they
  live.
• The emphasis is on developing community awareness
  and concern, and the skills needed to make an
  effective contribution to society.

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• In the final year of the program, students engage
  in a personal project, which allows them to
  demonstrate the understandings and skills they
  have developed throughout the program.

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Assessment

• Assessment is criterion-related, so students
  around the world are measured against
  pre-specified criteria for each subject group.
  Teachers set assessment tasks that are assessed
  internally in the school.
• External checks are carried out on this internal
  assessment to ensure worldwide consistency of
  standards.

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Professional Development

• This is a challenging program that demands the
  best from both motivated students and teachers.
  Authorized schools must commit to ongoing
  professional development.
• Teams from the organization visit IB World
  Schools from time to time in order to support an
  ongoing process of review and development, using
  standards and practices that apply to all IB
  World Schools.

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The OCC

• The Online Curriculum Center provides support and
  guidance to IB teachers.
• Locating and accessing the curriculum guides,
  teacher support material and teacher resource
  exchange will be most valuable as you transition
  from traditional to IB planning and teaching.
• http//occ.ibo.org
• School Code 3613
• Username classac
• Password flint