What is the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme?
100
They acquire the skills necessary to conduct inquiry and research and show independence in learning.
What are Inquirers?
100
ATL skills can be learned and taught, improved with...
What is practice
100
Type of assessment that is throughout the unit plan using criteria that are related to the objectives.
What is Formative Assessment?
100
The three sections, Philosophy, Organization and Curriculum are the 3 focuses that our program is evaluated on.
What are the Programmes and Standards?
200
...to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring your peo0ple who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanined and respect...
is what statement?
What is the IB Mission Statement
200
They give thoughtful consideration to their own learning and experience.
What is being Reflective?
200
Which ATL skill(s) do students get formally assessed on?
What is NONE of the ATL Skills are formally assessed?
200
Type of assessment to support learning and also to contribute to the determination of an achievement level usually at the end of the unit plan.
What is Summative Assessment?
200
Language and Literature, Language Acquisition, Math, Science, Individuals and Societies, PE, Design, Arts
What are the 8 subject areas required for IB students?
300
The IB mission statement translated into a set of 10 learning outcomes for the 21st Century is the ...
What is the Learner Profile?
300
They act with integrity and honesty, with a strong sense of fairness, justice and respect for the dignity of the individual, groups and communities.
What is being Principled?
300
How do we ensure students have mastered all the Approaches to Learning Skills by the end of year 5 of the MYP (10th grade)?
What is an ‘approaches to learning’ planning chart for all years of the programme?
300
This assessment provides students with further opportunities to demonstrate their learning in an authentic situation. It is an opportunity to respond to the unit question.
What is the Culminating Task at the end of a unit plan?
300
MYP students develop an understanding of their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet through developmentally appropriate explorations of these six.
What are the Global Contexts?
400
Communication Skills, Social Skills, Self-Management Skills, Research Skills, Thinking Skills
What are the Approaches to Learning?
400
They understand and express ideas and information confidently and creatively in more than one language.
What are Communicators?
400
Most units should have this many ATL skills explicitly taught to them and linked to the assessment.
What is two or three?
400
These are powerful, abstract ideas that have many dimensions and definitions. These engage students in higher-order thinking, helping them to connect facts, and topics with more complex conceptual understanding.
What are Key Concepts?
400
In 8th and 10th grade, the culminating tasks for service.
What are the Community Project (8th) and the Personal Project (10th)?
500
These five lens provide the MYP's main focus for developing links between the disciplines, so that students will learn to ssee knowledgeas an interrelated whole.
What are the Areas of Interaction?
500
They explore concepts, ideas and issues that have local and global significance.
What is being Knowledgeable?
500
In order to develop ATL skills that facilitate effective and efficient learning, students need...
What are models, clear expectations, developmental benchmarks (or targets), and multiple opportunities to practice?
500
There are how many criterion for each subject group? And how many times must each criterion be formally assessed per year?
What is 4 criterion and they must each be assessed twice a year?
500
The emphasis is on problem-solving and involving different techniques and materials.