MYP Quick Check

The MYP in IB MYP stands for...

• Maximize Your Planning

• Maximize Your Potential

• Make Your Point

• Middle Years Programme

DBHS offers years 4 and 5 of the MYP which is equivalent to grades 9 and 10

• True

• False

Which is not one of the three fundamental concepts of IB?

• holistic learning

• communication

• intercultural awareness

• teacher centered learning

Students complete courses from how many subject groups?

• 4

• 6

• 8

• 7

At the end of year 5 students must complete the __________, serving as a culminating assessment of their MYP learning experience.

• Community Project

• Personal Project

These are broad themes that provide starting points for inquiry into a unit of study.

• Areas of Interaction

• Approaches to Learning

• Global Contexts

• Global Concepts

The aim of IB is to develop these ten characteristics that help develop responsible members of local, national, and global communities.

• IB Learner Profile

• PBIS Character Education Traits

• Highly Effective Student Spectrum

• Approaches to Learning

To help make connections across the subjects, students are exposed to sixteen big ideas of teaching and learning in the MYP

• Global Contexts

• Global Concepts

• Related Concepts

• Key Concepts

These help students manage their own learning in the classroom and the world in which they live.

• Approaches to Learning

• College and Career Readiness Skills

• Key Concepts

All programme resources can be located online in this section of MyIB.

• PRC - Programme Resource Centre

• UPS - Umbrella of Programme Systems

• IBC - International Baccalaureate Curriculum