Setting a goal

Setting a goal

The IB's Personal Project Guide has the following information regarding setting a goal:

The personal project is truly personal because each student sets their own goal based on something that they find interesting. Students may draw inspiration from their prior experience in the MYP, such as:

• a global context that they find particularly compelling • a service as action experience that they would like to build on • a unit of inquiry that they would like to explore further. Similarly, students may set a goal based on an interest or hobby that they pursue (or would like to pursue) outside school. Students should set an overall goal that can be achieved within 25 hours.

Finding inspiration

Use 'moonshot thinking' to help decide on a goal.

The following articles and websites might also help the students when selecting their goal:

• 7 Young Inventors Who See a Better Way

• The 9 Most Successful Teen Entrepreneurs in the World

• Do Something

• Five Teens Who Changed the World

• Global Goals

• Google Art and Culture

• How to prosper with MYP personal projects: getting students started

• Instructables

• Makezine

• MYP projects tackle real-world problems

• MYP students exhibit their personal projects virtually

This video, focussing on the UN's Global Goals, may help students create big goals!