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MYP Personal Project

2025-2026

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  1. What is one thing you like about personal project?
  2. What is one question you have about personal project?

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Announcements!!

August 15th schedule

IDU lessons during 9:50 to 11:45 - instead of September 3rd

Grades 11 and 12 - periods 2 and 3 - life as normal

IDU Exhibition Date - September 25th - locations tentative (Gym, MPOC, Plaza A and Plaza B) - sue to schedule CL meetings to discuss details of IDU exhibition

School community to be invited

August 15th - teaching venues - B32 and B33 (year 8 - 55 students), MPR3, Dance Room, B34-35, Black box - individual classrooms…

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Grading Scale - From M25 - no change from M24

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0-2

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3-5

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6-10

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11-14

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15-17

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18-20

7

21-24

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New for May 2026 at GJS:

  1. All year 10 students need to earn a 4 on Personal Project and complete all SA requirements to enter full DP Programme!
  2. And…

Students need to earn a 4 or higher on Math eAssessment to take HL Math.

Progression Guidelines

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How many earned 3s in 2025?

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So What do you notice?

Folder M25 results

May 2025

May 2024

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GJS had 100% agreement with predicted and actual scores - 2 years in a row!!!!!

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How did we do at standardization compared to IB moderation? 2024 and 2025 - Spot on!

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What are we doing well with PP and how can we transfer this to other IAs?

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How to avoid bias with student marking?

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But 2023 year we underscored and overscored

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Historic results 2019-2024

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Last year’s 7s….

Dara

Nazwa

Naima

Only Dara and Anika have IB moderated 7s - both are GJS exemplars

But we had 6 students earn 20 points - 1 point away from a 7!

The average counts not the actual points!!

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Criterion A: Planning

Maximum: 0-8

In the personal project, students should be able to:

i. state a learning goal for the project and explain how a personal interest led to that goal

ii. state an intended product and develop appropriate success criteria for the product

iii. present a clear, detailed plan for achieving the product and its associated success criteria.

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Criterion B: Applying Skills

Maximum: 0-8

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In the personal project, students should be able to:

i. explain how the ATL skill(s) was/were applied to help achieve their learning goal

ii. explain how the ATL skill(s) was/were applied to help achieve their product.

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Criterion C: Reflecting Maximum: 0-8

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In the personal project, students should be able to:

i. explain the impact of the project on themselves or their learning

ii. evaluate the product based on the success criteria.

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What is the Personal Project and why is it important?

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We will guide our students through a three steps process: ��Criterion A: Inquiry, where they explore an area of their own interest and ask themselves questions about it.��Criterion B: Action, students will transfer and apply skills to research about their project and create a product.��Criterion C: Reflection, students reflect on their own learning process.��

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Key points:

They are marked on their report/evidence/process - not the product!

It’s the journey, not the destination

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What and when?

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Our timeline is already posted in the GJS Google Site. Dates are in Managebac

Year 10 Major Assessment Calendar

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What and when?

Key dates:

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Criteria A - Planning - September 27

Criteria B - Product Submission - November 29th

Criteria B - submission - Dec 13th

Criteria C - Final draft due - January 22nd

Exhibition - January 31st

Final Report due - February 3rd

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Managebac - Everything goes in Managebac!

Step 1 - IB Manager

Step 2 - Year 10

Step 3 - Personal Project

Step 4 - Find your student

Step 5- Students edit goals/process journal - link Google Drive (in notes)

Step 6 - They edit and enter your meetings in Meetings with Supervisor tab

Step 7 - You sign off at the end - Academic Honesty Form

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Step 2

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Step 3

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Exhibition - January 30th!

Photos from last year

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If you are new to MYP or to Personal Project - or if you want to brush up on your supervising skills - Tuesday -A30 at 3pm - August 19th

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When will I get a pp student?

  • Student pp topics
  • Students will submit their PP Proposal - M28 by Monday, 18 August 2025 at 15.00.
  • Teachers will receive the M28 student topics by Wednesday, 20 August, and then teachers will select their preferred topics - first come first serve!

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  • Supervisor allocation - publish it in the Managebac and Students + Staff bulletin on 29 August.

Some lucky teachers will be preselected!

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So what is my role as a supervisor?

  • ensure the chosen MYP project topics satisfies appropriate legal and ethicalstandardswith regard to health and safety, confidentiality, human rights, animal welfare and environmentalissues
  • provide guidance to studentsin the process and completion of the project
  • confirm the authenticity of the work submitted
  • assess the MYP project using the criteria in the PP guide
  • participate in the standardisation of assessment process review the checklist

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So what is my role as a supervisor?

Minimum of 3 student meetings

We encourage more than 3!

3 are required to be documented in Managebac for the Academic Honesty Form

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Who will support the students during this journey?

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MYP Core Class -

Grade 10 students have only one class a week where they can work on their personal project. Part of the project is Self Management Skills - by Feb 2nd

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How do they manage their time and stress. How can they reflect upon their learning?

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IB recommends minimum of 25 hours

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ROAD

To hit the

Our students will need many resources and guidance.

Parent session - August 15th

Managebac

MYP Official PP Website

GJS PP site

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STEPS

We have taken the first

What have we done and what we are doing now?

Learning Goal

Product Goal

Personal interest

Academic interest

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  1. Personal interest

Example - I have a sweet tooth and love to cook with my grandmother.

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2. Learning Goal

What do I want to learn about - must involve research!

I want to learn how to make healthier desserts using healthier substitutes.

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3. Product goal

What will I make or do to show what I learned? Must connect to learning goal.

I will make a digital cookbook of 10 healthy desserts.

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Key mistakes:

  1. too broad - I want to make healthier food
  2. confusing learning goal and product goal - are you focusing on a learning how to make an app or a business plan?

Bias - we grade the exhibition and not the product or we like the student …

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Students need to document evidence! =flavor!

Photos

emails

screenshots

journals

drawings

research notes

mind maps

interviews

To-do lists

OPVL

KWL chart and more!

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Next steps:

  1. Research (library, internet (Google Scholar), interviews, etc
  2. Create an action plan (timeline)
  3. Success Criteria
  4. Focus on the ATLs
  5. Work on the product!

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��Please inform Ibu Sue or Ibu Popy with any student concerns - early!

Ex - they aren’t meeting with you or they aren’t meeting deadlines!

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review the checklist

What can you do to help?

  • connect with your students
  • Inform Ibu Popy, Ibu Sue, Ibu Aprinda, Ibu Christine or Pak Dodin with concerns

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Drop into the IB office with questions

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Once a month A30 support sessions

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What is the difference between a Service Project and a Personal Project?

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Year 10 students do 1 Service Project or 4 Service Experiences

Do you have any connections?

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So why does it matter?

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Our grade 10 students’ Journey has begun

Feedback form:

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Questions?

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So what about eAssessment?

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Last year’s results - May 2025

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Compare to- May 2024 - What do you notice?

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Glows!

  • Design and Personal Project 100% exact agreement with moderated scores!
  • English LL and LA new eAssessments for GJS and above the world average!
  • Music and Theater new ePortfolios - Music above world average and Theater very close!
  • Math - increased growth in scores from 2024 - and many 7s!
  • Extended Math - first time at GJS and a 7!
  • 5 out of 8 are above the world average
  • Any others???

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Areas for Growth

  • Avoid 1s and 2s if possible
  • improve test anxiety - some students do better in ePortfolio and PP and struggle with assessments
  • Meet or supercede the world average in all areas
  • Continue to modify units to align with eAssessment
  • Analyze data - more to come
  • Improve predicted scores and actual scores in MYP eAssessments and ePortfolios
  • Continue to weave the MYP eAssessments/ePortfolios in GJS community
  • Any others??

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Looking forward…

  • All students to do an ePortfolio for 25-26
  • New to ePortfolio: PHE, Visual Art, Media (Film)
  • New to eAssessment: Integrated Sciences and Integrated Humanities
  • Continued training: IB workshops, InThinking ThinkIns, Microcredentials, etc..
  • Any others???

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Enhancing the MYP

Up next! - Easy Guide

IB Course - Enhancing the Beta Trial Explained for curriculum leaders

IB Course - Enhancing the MYP Explained for teachers

Goal for the year - Design one unit for participating subjects in years 7 and/or 8

More training to come!

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THANK YOU

for being part of this journey.