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Middle Years Programme

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Guiding Question

•How can the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) help me be a better learner and a better person?

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Seventh Grade AssemblyOctober 8, 2013

MYP Overview MYP Requirements Student Code of Conduct

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The Programme Model

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Learner Profile

At the heart of the IB ProgrammeContinuum is the Learner Profile.

The IB programme aims to help students develop as lifelong learners in the context of the Learner Profile.

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Fundamental Concepts of the Middle Years

Programme

• Intercultural Awareness• Communication• Holistic Education with a Focus on

Global Issues

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FIVE AREAS OF INTERACTION

• They provide a framework for learning within and across the subject groups.

• They allow connections among the subjects themselves, and between the subjects and real-life issues.

Characteristics of the Middle Years Program

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The 5 Areas of Interaction:• Approaches to Learning• Community & Service• Environments• Health & Social Education• Human Ingenuity

MYP AREAS OF INTERACTION

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Approaches to Learning

• Develop effective study skills• Develop critical, coherent, and

independent thought• Learn problem solving and decision

making skills• Become life-long learners• Nurture academic honesty

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PortfoliosStudents:• Collect samples of their work for each Area of

Interaction• Write a reflection form for each entry• Collected work samples and reflections can be

added to the portfolios during homeroom• You may use a picture of large projects• Accumulate work samples from 6th – 8th grades

A complete Portfolio is a requirement to qualify for the Ada Merritt International Baccalaureate Certificate in eighth grade.

Community and Service

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IB MYP Requirements• Maintain grades of 2.5 or higher in all

subjects and in conduct• Maintain effort satisfactory grades• Follow the schools attendance, punctuality,

uniform and behavior guidelines• Complete home learning assignments

regularly and use the student agenda• Complete the required Community and

Service hours:– 10 hours in 6th and 7th grade– 20 hours in 8th grade

• Maintain a portfolio • Complete the 8th grade Culminating Project

Eighth Grade Requirements To receive an Eighth Grade Certificate of

Promotion students must pass all Middle School core classes

To receive an Ada Merritt K-8 Center International

Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IB MYP) Certificate and Pin students must meet the following criteria:a GPA of 2.5 or higher in all Academic Courses and in

conductsatisfactory effort gradesa minimum of 40 hours of Community and Service:

10 in grades 6 and 7, 20 in grade 8. All Service Record forms must be submitted before May 16, 2014

a satisfactory eighth grade culminating project a complete MYP portfolio.

Student Code of Conduct

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Sixth Grade OrientationOctober 8, 2013

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Albert Einstein

A COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS