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Embarking on the Personal Project

Embarking on the Personal Project. Implementing MYP Personal Project at Saint Andrew’s. Why student-directed learning?.

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Embarking on the Personal Project

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  1. Embarking on the Personal Project Implementing MYP Personal Project at Saint Andrew’s

  2. Why student-directed learning? For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other. ― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

  3. Why student-directed learning? The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. -Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline

  4. Why student-directed learning? We can only have...citizens who can live constructively in this kaleidoscopically changing world ...if we are willing for them to become self-starting, self-initiating, lifelong learners. - Carl Rogers, 1969

  5. Defining the Personal Project • Description • Process • Relationships • Timeline • Tasks

  6. Description • Personal nature • Independent (establish life long learners) • Inquiry process (MYP pedagogy) • Completed by End of Year 5

  7. Description Inquiry Process Academic Knowledge Thoughtful Action • Goal of Personal Project • Develop Life Long Learner

  8. Generate Topic • Assign Supervisor • Choose Area of Interaction • Define Goal • Pose question to guide inquiry • Create specifications to evaluate the outcome • Decide on format of Process Journal • Implement (include sources) • Reflect/Modify in PJ • Exhibit/Share PP • Reflect on PP process • Prepare PP report PROCESS

  9. RELATIONSHIPS • Student • PP Coordinator • Supervisor • Mentor • IB External Evaluator

  10. PP Coordinator IB External Evaluator RELATIONSHIPS Supervisor Student Mentor

  11. RELATIONSHIPS • Student • Generate inspired and personal topic • Application of criteria to concrete project • Create timeline and meet deadlines • Keep up with Process Journal • Meet regularly with Supervisor • Evaluate outcome and complete PP report • Submit report to Supervisor

  12. RELATIONSHIPS • PP Coordinator: Paula Tin Nyo • paula.tinnyo@saintandrews.net561.613.7486 • MYP and DP • Philosophy & Fine Arts Background • Academic to Application • Project-based learning process

  13. RELATIONSHIPS • PP Coordinator • Guide Topic generation • Guide Standardization Evaluation • Format PP Report • Work closely with MYP Coordinator, Nathalie • Work closely with Supervisors • Resource for PP questions

  14. RELATIONSHIPS • Supervisor • Guides and advises student throughout process (9th-10th grade) • Supervises student’s formulation of specifications • Takes part in internal standardization of assessment process established by Saint Andrew’s. • Ensures Academic Honesty • Evaluates Personal Project, including outcome, with student

  15. RELATIONSHIPS • Mentor • An expert in technical aspects of the topic of inquiry • Should not be doing the work

  16. RELATIONSHIPS • IB External Evaluator • (monitoring of assessment) • Reviews Personal Project Report • Samples of PP projects & process journal extracts submitted to IB (within 2 years of 5 year review) • Does NOT evaluate outcome

  17. TIMELINE • When and Where Do We Start? • NOW • Year 1, 6th grade • Generate excitement and commitment from Year 1 of MYP

  18. 2012 TIMELINE VERIFICATION VISIT BY IB IN APRIL AUTHORIZATION BY IB LAUNCH PILOT PP END OF 9TH GRADE 2013 RUN PILOT PP FOR SELECT 10TH GRADERS LAUNCH 1ST PP END OF 9TH GRADE FOR ALL 2014 IMPLEMENT PP FOR 1ST MYP, Y5 CLASS SUBMIT SAMPLES BY MARCH TO IB 2015 2016 5 YEAR REVIEW BY IB INCLUDING EVALUATION VISIT

  19. MYP FOR SAINT ANDREW’S • Positive Community Outreach • Enrollment and Retention Tool • Generates excitement and marketing material to exemplify our mission in the form of projects completed over time

  20. Flexibility MYP FOR SAINT ANDREW’S • Opportunity and encouragement to structure the relationships and process according to individual students and supervisor needs and strengths • Format is undefined by design in order to keep it personal • Embed our mission in each of these PPs as part of guidelines

  21. Form Personal Project Committee • Composed of Pilot Supervisors • Create Action Plan • Develop Timeline with specific benchmarks • Define role, scope and limitation of Supervisors • Standardize Forms & Assessments for consistency throughout Saint Andrew’s TASKS

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