Student Learning
IB Middle Years Programme
IB Middle Years Programme at MBIS
For students in Grade 6 to 10
For students in Grades 6 - 10
The first 5 years of the Upper School curriculum is guided by the IB Middle Year Programme curriculum frameowrk and supported by Common Core curriculum standards. The MYP provides a framework of academic challenge and life skills for students aged 11-16 years. The five- year programme offers an educational approach that embraces yet transcends traditional school subjects. The IBO builds the MYP around the understanding that adolescent students are in a particularly critical phase of personal and intellectual development. The MYP provides adolescents with discipline, skills, and challenging standards, but also with creativity and flexibility. Also, the MYP is concerned with students developing a personal value system which guides their own lives, as they become thoughtful members of local, national, and global communities.
The fundamental concepts of the MYP are:
Intercultural Awareness
Holistic Learning
Communication
Learning in a broad range of disciplines
Course objectives that include skills and processes as well as a framework of concepts
Concurrent learning, whereby students deal with a balanced curriculum each year
The use of a variety of teaching and learning methodologies
The development of the whole child and depending on the school’s concern for the whole educational experience, including what is learned outside the classroom
A balance between formative and summative assessment
Teacher assessment, group evaluation, peer evaluation, and self-evaluation
Teachers assess student work with guidance from the IB according to prescribed, published criteria that state final levels of achievement in each subject area. These assessment criteria are included in the students’ end of semester progress reports. The programme places special emphasis on formative assessment, which is used at different stages of the learning process to measure the progress of the student and make necessary adjustments to teaching plans and methods. The students are also involved in formative self-assessment of their own work, and they are required to reflect on their own approaches to learning.
MYP PERSONAL PROJECT
The Personal Project is the culmination of a student’s work with the Global Contexts, and it has an important role to play in the curriculum.Completion of a Personal Project is undertaken by each student in the final year of the MYP (Grade 10). Each Grade 10 student is supervised by an MYP teacher during the completion of the project. When all the projects are completed, they are marked by the supervisors and then they go through a process of internal moderation.
IB Middle Years Programme
Learn more about the structure, philosophy, and learning approach of the IB MYP in the official guide from the International Baccalaureate.