What is the Personal Project?
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The personal project is a student-driven project, that happens in the last year of the Middle Years Programme (MYP). Students choose a topic to explore through learning a new skill/knowledge and creating a product/outcome. Through the project, students demonstrate and strengthen their approaches to learning (ATL skills).
The personal project is the culminating project of the MYP - a great way to celebrate students learning journey through the MYP!
Motivation: Students explore an area that motivates and interests them.
Agency: Students set their own goal and choose how to achieve it. Students create their own articulation of what success will look like.
Lifelong Learning: Students demonstrate and develop ATL skills. Students reflect on the impact that the personal project has had on themselves and/or their community.
The project should challenge students to develop as a learner!
Just like all MYP units, the project allows students to inquire, act and reflect!
Inquire
Explore an interest that is personally meaningful.
Take ownership of their learning by undertaking a self-directed inquiry.
Act
Transfer and apply skills in pursuit of a learning goal and the creation of a product.
Reflect
Recognize and evidence personal growth and development.
