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Jose Diaz jdiaz@aeacs.org

Corie Julius: cjulius@aeacs.org

IBO: https://www.ibo.org/

MYP at AEA: https://sites.google.com/aeacs.org/ib-myp-for-parents/home

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With Guest Appearance 8th grade Teacher Leader Mr. Ray with a special appeal

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  • What is it?

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  • What kind of stuff are we doing?

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  • How can you help?

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In the chat:

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  1. What do you think you know about the IB MYP program?

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  • What do you want to know about IB?

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AEA Middle Years Program (MYP)

  • Created collaboratively
  • Designed through 6 global contexts
  • Multi-lingual
  • Interdisciplinay, Concept & Inquiry-based
  • Constructivist Learning Theory
  • Regularly reflected upon and revised
  • See course syllabii in canvas

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PYP

MYP

DP/CP

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The IB learner Profile is the IB mission statement translated into a set of learning outcomes for the 21st century

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Learner Profile

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Learner Profile

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Learner Profile

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Learner Profile

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Learner Profile

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Approaches to Learning/Approaches to Teaching

AtL

  • Thinking-critical, creative and transference
  • Self-Management-organization Affective, Reflection
  • Communication-through interactions and with information
  • Social- collaboration
  • Research-information/ Media literacy

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AtT

  • Inquiry-based
  • Focused on conceptual understanding
  • Developed in local and global contexts
  • Focused on collaboration (teacher & student)
  • Differentiated to meet the needs of all learners
  • Informed by assessment

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Constructivist

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Approaches to Learning

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Approaches to Teaching

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Approaches to Teaching

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Approaches to Teaching

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Concept Based Inquiry

Concepts are the “big ideas” that are usually 1 or 2 words

  • Timeless
  • Abstract
  • Universal
  • Transferrable

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Key Concepts

  • Aesthetics
  • Change
  • Communication
  • Communities
  • Connections
  • Creativity
  • Culture
  • Development

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  • Form
  • Global Interactions Identity
  • Logic
  • Perspective
  • Relationships
  • Systems
  • Time, place and space
  • Systems

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Key concepts for all subjects

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Which Key Concept fits best?

  • Aesthetics
  • Change
  • Communication
  • Communities
  • Connections
  • Creativity
  • Culture
  • Development
  • Form
  • Global Interactions
  • Identity
  • Logic
  • Perspective
  • Relationships
  • Systems
  • Time, place and space

Slide taken from Lenny Dutton’s presentation on key concepts

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Global Contexts are the transdisciplinary units in the PYP

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Service, Action, and Community Project

Types of Action:

Direct

Indirect

Research

Advocacy

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Community project

  • Culminating project in the 8th grade
  • Student engage in their OWN, sustained, in-depth inquiry leading to service as action in the community.
  • A way to showcase who you are as an International Baccalaureate (IB) learner at the end of your Middle Year Program (MYP) journey

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Community Project exemplars

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Example of Unit Planners

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Subject Areas in the Middle Years Program

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  • Language & Literature
  • Mathematics
  • Language Acquisition
  • Physical and Health Education
  • Science
  • Individuals and Societies
  • Design
  • Art

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Design cycle

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Kinds of assessment at AEA

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  • Teacher and peer formative feedback
  • Student self-reflection
  • Summatives (and some formatives) -Rubric-based
  • Report card reflects:
    • Four criterion grades and a final grade per subject
    • Four Key AtL skills
  • Final grades are not really final until end of the year

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  • NWEA MAP ® assessments for Math, Reading, Language Usage
  • SBAC assessment

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TASKs are either:

  • F = formative:
    • Students Practice
    • A snapshot for the teacher to see if the students are understanding the material.
    • Ex: quizzes, classwork, homework
  • S = summative:
    • Game time for Students
    • Graded according to the IB criteria for the course and will be part of the final grade.
    • Ex: tests, essays, projects
    • Scores posted about 2 WEEKS after the due date

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www.aeacms.org/ibgrades

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WHAT IS POWERSCHOOL

PowerSchool is a web-based tool that enhances communication between parents, teachers and students by providing access to student information from home, work, or from any remote location with Internet access. Parents/students can view:

  • Student schedules
  • Attendance data
  • Report cards and progress report

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LOGIN INFORMATION

Students were given login information from their homeroom teacher in December.

  1. Visit this url: https://aea.powerschool.com/
  2. Enter the username
  3. Enter the password
  4. Click Sign In

You may notice on the login screen that there is an option to create a parent account. This feature is not available yet for parents. When this feature is enabled, information will be sent directly to families with instructions.

If you have any issues accessing your student’s account, please contact the AEA IT Helpdesk by sending an email to support@aeacs.org.

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QUICKLOOKUP SCREEN

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STANDARDS DISPLAY

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IB continuum at AEA

Primary Years Program K-5

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Middle Years Program 6th-8th

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Coming in 2024 MYP 9th grade

Coming in 2025 MYP 10th grade

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In 2026 Begin the DP and CP programs for 11th and 12th grade

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  • Make the Learner Profile a part of your life.
  • Encourage your student to ask questions and foster their independence in finding answers.
  • Support your student’s home language.
  • Cultivate global mindedness.
  • Encourage your student to take action.
  • Communication is key.
  • Do what you can with what you can.
  • Model! Model! Model!

How can families help support the MYP?

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What questions do you have?

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What is No Place for Hate?

The Anti Defamation League (ADL) is a leading anti-hate organization. Founded in 1913 in response to an escalating climate of antisemitism and bigotry, its timeless mission is to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.

ADL’s anti-bias and bullying prevention programs, which include No Place for Hate, assist educators and students in understanding and challenging bias, building ally behaviors, and challenging injustice.

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What is No Place for Hate?

Building inclusive and safe communities in which respect and equity are the goals and where all students can thrive.

The goal of NPfH is to develop long-term solutions for creating and maintaining an inclusive and equitable climate. No Place for Hate schools receive their designation in the following ways:

Empowering students, faculty, administration and family members to take a stand against bias and bullying by incorporating new and existing programs under one powerful message.

Sending a clear, unified message that all students have a place where they belong and should be

treated equitably.

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Our activities thus far

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  • To become a No Place for Hate school, we need guardians to participate in our student-teacher committee to give advice and to encourage our students in their No Place for Hate activities.
  • Guardians will participate virtually to:
    • Attend a Monday afternoon meeting�once a month
    • Provide guidance via email
  • If you want to find out more about being a family member of our committee, contact me – Chris Ray at 619-753-5231 or cray@aeacs.org

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Our request for your help