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MYP for Parents: Personal Project

Parent information and workshop resources

Source: IBO Website "Project Study in the MYP"

Through the Middle Years Programme (MYP) projects, students experience the responsibility of completing a significant piece of work over an extended period of time.

At WAB, the MYP Personal Project is a powerful, purposeful learning experience in Grade 10. It serves as a process and showcase of student research and action. Culminating in the MYP Celebration evening, the Personal Project helps us celebrate the journey of our learners. 

Source: IBO Website "Project Study in the MYP"

MYP projects encourage students to reflect on their learning and the outcomes of their work – key skills that prepare them for success in further study, the workplace and the community.

All students who complete the MYP in Year 5 complete the personal project. Schools register all MYP Year 5 students for external moderation of the personal project, promoting a global standard of quality. This means that a sample of school-assessed student project reports are sent to IB moderators. 

MYP projects are student-centred and age-appropriate, and they enable students to engage in practical explorations through a cycle of inquiry, action and reflection.

What will students learn through the MYP projects?

MYP projects involve students in a wide range of activities to extend their knowledge and understanding and to develop their skills and attitudes.

These student-planned learning activities include:

  • deciding what they want to learn about, identifying what they already know, and discovering what they will need to know to complete the project
  • creating proposals or criteria for their project, planning their time and materials, and recording developments of the project
  • making decisions, developing understandings and solving problems, communicating with their supervisor and others, and creating a product or developing an outcome evaluating the product/outcome and reflecting on their project and their learning.

As students become involved in the self-initiated and self-directed learning process, they will find it easier to construct in-depth knowledge on their topic, and develop an understanding of themselves as learners.

Find out more about the MYP curriculum and about becoming authorized to implement the MYP.