Everything About MYP (TTO) 2014
Everything About MYP (TTO) 2014
Everything About MYP (TTO) 2014
know about
the new MYP
version TTO
September 2014
Subjects Offered:
Language and Literature (as mother tongue): English A, Dutch A
Language Acquisition (as second language): French B, German B (from year 2) and the
classical languages, (TTO+), Greek and Latin
Mathematics
Individuals and Societies: Geography, History, Economics (from year 3)
Sciences: Integrated Science, and in year 4, Biology, Chemistry, Physics
Design
Arts: Visual Art, Music
Physical and Health Education
Other (Non-MYP) subjects
Levensbeschouwing en Maatschappij (L&M)
SGS:
small group subjects, offered with the IS and TTO in mixed classes of TTO1-2 and
IS MYP1-3. Courses are 10 week long and include subjects such as Fanzines, Still
life, Presentation Skills, Culture and Team building!
Inquiry questions lead each unit or module of work. These inquiry questions are
developed from the curriculum content required within the VWO programme. From
this content the teachers identify the key concepts to be taught and these are
aligned with the requirements of the programme. Key concepts are big ideas which
form the basis of teaching and learning in the MYP. Key concepts engage students in
higher order thinking, helping them to connect facts and topics with more complex
conceptual understanding. Key concepts provide a focus for transferring knowledge
and understanding across disciplines and subject groups.
The MYP identifies sixteen key concepts to be explored across the curriculum. These
key concepts represent understandings that reach beyond the eight MYP subject
groups from which they are drawn:
Aesthetics
Change
Communication
Communities
Connections
Creativity
Culture
Development
Form
Global interactions
Identity
Logic
Perspective
Relationships
Systems
Teachers use key concepts from their own discipline(s) or subject group(s)as well
as key concepts from other disciplines and subject groupsto plan disciplinary and
interdisciplinary units of inquiry.
Skill Clusters
1. Communication
Communication
2. Social
Collaboration
3. Self Management
Organisation
Affective
Reflection
4. Research
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
5. Thinking
Critical Thinking
Creative Thinking
Transfer
Teachers are responsible for integrating and teaching these ATL skills
Students are responsible for practicing and developing these ATL skills
Students will be given opportunities to reflect upon their development of these
skills by asking questions, such as
What are my current skills
What skills can I improve
What new skills can I learn
Students may consider themselves to a be novice, a developer, a practitioner or an
expert in these skills. Guidance in this self appraisal will be given by teachers.
Assessment in MYP
MYP students are assessed on how they use their knowledge to address challenging
questions in unfamiliar situations using conceptual understanding.
Currently, assessment in MYP is internal: designed by teachers for the students.
From 2016 there will be a number of e-assessments available to the students in the
final year of their programme (TTO4). These assessments will be online and will
allow the IB to set far richer tasks than can be achieved with pen and paper alone.
Assessment in MYP is criterion based.
Clear expectations or objectives are given by the teachers to their students
before the assessment task is set. Achievement is measured by the students
ability to meet these objectives
Each subject is assessed by four criteria and each criterion is out of 8:
A (8)
Analyzing
B (8)
Organizing
C (8)
Producing text
D (8)
Using language
Comprehending
spoken and visual
text
Knowing and
understanding
Comprehending
written and visual
text
Investigating
Communicating
Using language
Communicating
Thinking
critically
Sciences
Knowing and
understanding
Inquiring and
designing
Processing and
evaluating
Mathematics
Knowing and
understanding
Investigating
patterns
Arts
Knowing and
understanding
Developing skills
Physical and
health
education
Design
Knowing and
understanding
Planning for
performance
Applying and
performing
Inquiring and
analysing
Developing ideas
Creating the
solution
Language
and
literature
Language
acquisition*
Individuals
and societies
Reflecting on the
impacts of
science
Communicating
Applying
mathematics in
real world
contexts
Thinking creatively
Responding
Reflecting and
improving
performance
Evaluating
A final (MYP) grade (maximum 7) is issued at each reporting period created from this criteria total.
MYP Total
Final MYP Grade
1-5
1
6-9
2
10-14
3
15-18
4
* Excluding Latin/Greek
19-23
5
24-27
6
28-32
7
How does the final (1 7) grade reflect actual skills and achievement?
Grade
From this criteria total a Dutch cijfer (maximum 10) may also be calculated.
MYP total
0-4
5-7
8-11
12-15
16-18
19-21
22-24
25-27
28-30
31-32
NL equivalent
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Focus on MYP
Service as Action
Service as Action allows the student to discover how what they learn in the
classroom also can have a connection with what they encounter in the community.
Every student must take part in a Service as Action programme which may involve
them in:
feeling empathy towards others
making small-scale changes to their behaviour
undertaking larger and more significant projects
acting on their own
acting collaboratively
taking physical action
suggesting modifications to an existing system to the benefit of all involved
lobbying people in more influential positions to act.
Criteria
and Levels
Criterion Levels
total
the sum of the final criterion levels for all the criteria in each
subject
E-assessment
Grade
International
The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a non-profit
Baccalaureate (IB) educational foundation, motivated by its mission, focused on
the student.
www.ibo.org
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Managebac
Moderation
MYP
Objectives
Rubric
Please also see the General Regulations for MYP as published by the IB available for download
from the MYP site
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Further information:
http://myp.maartenscollege.nl
International Baccalaureate Organisation
www.ibo.org
Ouderportaal:
https://maartens.managebac.com
Ouderportal contact:
managebac@maartens.nl
MYP Coordinator
m.b.weston@maartens.nl
TTO teamleader
j.m.knoester@maartens.nl
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