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GO MAD… with the

PERSONAL PROJECT !!!!

An IntroductionName: Class:

THE PERSONAL PROJECT:

• Checks your ability and responsibility to learn something new, i.e. to be an independent learner.

• Determines your ability to use your knowledge and skills to investigate and communicate your own response to issues of your choice.

• Equips you with skills to be a life long learner.

WHAT IS THE PERSONAL PROJECT ?

• A significant creative piece of work or investigative report.

• Undertaken over an extended period of time in the student’s own time.

• Student initiated but guided and supervised by a teacher.

• Based an issue or topic related to the Areas of Interaction i.e. health & social , environmental, exploring your creativity and its consequences, community and service. This will be expressed in a focus question that will guide your project development. Your product will be your attempt to offer a solution to this question

• Completed in the final year of the MYP (Year 10).

• Assesses a student’s level of independence and responsibility applied to a project that addresses an issue of interest, or the student’s ability to learn something new.

WHAT ARE THE AREAS OF INTERACTION?

Basically the AOIs help you develop a focus for your project. and include:

• Approaches to Learning – focuses on the skills, techniques, methods of effective learning & communication – e.g. research skills, collecting information from a variety of sources, using the writing process, structuring your writing to communicate what you know, etc.

• Community & Service – involvement in an activity that helps someone in the community- e.g. coaching a sport, a project that draws the community’s attention to an issue, undertaking a recycling campaign in the community.

• Health & Social Education – deals with physical & mental health; relationships – e.g. investigating issues associated with drugs, fitness, a sport, self esteem, peer pressure, etc.

• Environments – focuses interdependence of human beings and nature and development. e.g. conservation of endangered species; investigating pollution, global warming, illegal logging & deforestation, sustainability, alternative energy sources, etc.

• Human Ingenuity– the creative and inventive genius of people; their impact on society e.g. creating an invention, examining artwork to develop you own technique, writing poetry, composing songs, learning to play a musical instrument,

How will the Project be Assessed?

• Planning and Development: identity link to AOI, describe, set and then focus on goals

• Collection of Information/Resource: select, identify, use a variety of relevant resources

• Choice an Application of Techniques: choose and apply approach/technique relevant to doing your project.

• Analysis of Information: express thoughts and creativity, imagination and inspiration

• Organization of the Report: clearly presented and structured

• Analysis of the Process and Outcome; identify, develop and describe strengths & weaknesses of the project

• Personal Engagement and Attitude: time management and motivation, application to task

COMPONENTS OF THE PERSONAL PROJECT

The personal project includes:

• A Focus Question / Goal to guide your inquiry. This is based on an Area Of Interaction.

• A Product which is seen as your attempt to offer a solution to your focus question / goal.

• A Personal Statement that outlines the knowledge, skills and processes used to undertake your project. Outline this regularly in your process journal.

• An Exhibition where you promote your project and the issue you explored to the wider school community and your parents.

THE PERSONAL PROJECT PRODUCT:

• Can be related to you own interests, hobbies or talents.• Investigates issues you are concerned about related to an Area of Interaction i.e. social, health, environmental, creativity and its consequences, community & service • Is your solution to an issue/ problem expressed in a focus question.

THE PERSONAL STATEMENT:

• Is a REPORT that gives the details of the processes and skills used to produce your project. i.e. the writing process, research skills, thinking in different ways, working with people, etc.

• Is to be no longer then 4 000 words

The Personal Project Exhibition:

Is a public display drawing people’s

attention to your product and the

issue to which it is related.

Now you really get to shine!!!Now you really get to shine!!!

THE PERSONAL PROJECT TIMELINE

• THEME – EXPLORING WORLD ISSUES

• Topic Choice:

• Progress Exhibition – Dec.

• Product due – Mid-February.

• Personal Statement draft – Early March

• Personal Statement completed – Mid March

• Personal Project Exhibition – Mid April.

Ready …. Set…… GO…….. !